Working 401a Retiree - Staff

University of Colorado•Aurora, CO

3d•$40 - $45•Onsite

About The Position

This position is internal to University of Colorado ORP retirees. The Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition is a national leader in innovative clinical practice, developing and testing new diagnostics and treatments, and training the next generation of clinicians and researchers. We are dedicated to providing state-of-the-art family-based clinical care, promoting discovery through cutting-edge basic, clinical, and translational research, and being at the forefront of training pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology fellows and pediatric residents. Clinical and research programs address all aspects of digestive diseases, including those involving the esophagus, intestinal tract, liver, and pancreas. Our faculty provide national leadership in many NIH-funded research networks and professional organizations. Our highly-rated fellowship program is one of a handful funded by the NIH. Most of our clinical services are provided at Children's Hospital Colorado, in Aurora, Colorado, and include many outreach and satellite clinics, enabling our multidisciplinary clinical team to see approximately 17,000 outpatient visits per year and perform close to 4,000 GI procedures. We have the only dedicated pediatric GI procedure unit in the region. Our research programs (funded by the NIH, foundations, and philanthropy) align with our clinical programs and focus on liver diseases, liver failure, and liver transplantation, inflammatory bowel disease, eosinophilic diseases of the GI tract, childhood obesity, short bowel syndrome, and celiac disease.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, heathcare, finance or a related field.
3 years of directly related experience.
Able to engage with a wide variety of staff and faculty to facilitate and ensure completion of research related administrative tasks.
Understand the complexities of performing research and the challenges related to research administration in complex medical and academic institutions.
Promotes honest, efficient and timely completion of tasks.

Nice To Haves

Experiences in complex biomedical research institutions.
Experience with wide range of research (clinical, basic, translational), staff (research coordinators, administrators, finance) and researchers (MD, PhD, MD-PhD).

Responsibilities

Coordinate promotion and tenure process to ensure documents are accurate and complete and deadlines are met.
Monitor and anticipate educational opportunities including workshops, study groups, and meetings that will facilitate faculty education and training.
Track, collect data, and deliver assessment reports reflective of the DHI teaching and research outcomes.
Maintain research publication lists and libraries, document repositories, databases, investigator CVs (including on major funder agency databases) and records of submissions, communications, and outcomes of funding and regulatory body applications.
Coordinate and maintain instructions and timelines concerning annual and special section projects and processes, including student evaluations, academic schedules, faculty course loads and promotion and tenure, student scholars.
Prepare the DHI Annual Research Report.
Support DHI Business Manager.
File and follow up on CU Medicine based contracts, University based CDA’s and MTA’s.
Projecting faculty research salary, identify problems such as loss of funding, research solutions, and maintain budget files and spreadsheets.
Monitor faculty research and clinical expenditures and determine need to transfer funds between line items to cover shortfalls.
Pull various University based research and operations financial reports from reporting systems on speedtype expenditure for review, tracking and correction.
Assist in University/SOM based purchasing and reimbursements including but not limited to: CU Marketplace, research supply purchasing, computer purchasing, misc. office supplies facilities and travel.
Coordinate with CHCO leaders and DHI faculty leaders to monitor administrative and financial metrics to ensure the Section is meeting strategic goals.
Organize and supervise DHI Research Committee members to enact its goals and actions.
Participate in the development of research long range plans, and financial planning.
Develop, coordinate and reconcile basic and clinical research budgets within Section.
Monitor grant budgets and ensure salaries and expenditures are costed correctly and ensure funds are expended in accordance with any relevant funding agreement.
Coordinate and perform basic and clinical research grant budget analyses and forecasts.
Assist in developing research infrastructure and managing processes at the section level for administrative and business activities (compliance tracking, reporting, , HR metrics such as staffing) and regulatory activities (tracks committee representation for the section, organizes section support for surveys).
Supports develop of and dissemination of research information regarding current Section policies and procedures.
Support DHI Business Manager in determining faculty FTE assignment/ePERs.
Coordinates collection of research related to clinical metrics.
Serve as proposal development expert in the area of execution and development of research proposals and projects.
Pre-award consultations and develops proposals submission timelines.
Support new and ongoing initiatives that will grow the section’s position in sponsored research.
Provide strategic direction and expert support for the section’s research programs.
Provide workshops on research funding agency requirements, interests and trends.
Manage extramural funds, resource allocation, and comprehensive forecasting of average spending.
Advise and/or train DHI research coordinators and staff on research administration related items.