Senior research administrator, sargent administration

Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is one of the country's leading schools of health and rehabilitation sciences. Home to more than 1300 undergraduate and 600+ graduate students, Sargent College combines outstanding faculty and cutting-edge research to provide superb education and clinical experiences. The college has more than 30 on-campus research facilities, clinical centers, and labs. It offers top-ranked degree programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech, language and hearing sciences, health sciences, human physiology and nutrition.

The Senior Research Administrator, reporting to the Director of Research Administration, manages a complex and diverse grant portfolio for the college. The role is a senior position within a team of 3.0 FTE research administrators who oversee the complete grant life cycle.

The Senior Research Administrator will provide accurate, responsive, and service-driven pre-award and post-award services for an ambitious and dynamic community of investigators working across a wide variety of federal, state and industry sponsors. The role will actively support, collaborate with and advise principal investigators (PIs) and serve as a liaison with central administrative offices, including the Office of Research and Office of Sponsored Programs to ensure effective and timely management of all sponsored awards. Pre-award responsibilities will include independently reviewing and preparing grant proposals for submission, accurate interpretation and review of sponsor guidelines, budget development, drafting administrative sections, collecting materials, review of application to ensure adherence to sponsor guidelines, and obtaining institutional review/approval. Post-award responsibilities include monitoring the budget, reconciling expenses, management and monitoring of subawards, effort certifications, preparing detailed financial projections and reports. The role will identify any areas of over-or under expenditure to suggest corrective actions and contingency planning in a proactive manner.

This position is eligible to work fully remote work following flexible work policies set forth by Boston University's Human Resources.

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, training and internal pay comparison. The advertised hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.