Job Title:   Research Advancement Administrator
Location:  Tempe campus
Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Arizona State University School of Life Sciences seeks a Research Advancement Administrator.  The School of Life Sciences is an evolving and innovative model for life sciences research and education.  for more information about the School of Life Sciences, please visit our website at http://sols.asu.edu

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 70,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

Duties and Responsibilities
- Works with department/unit faculty to resolve administrative issues such as conflict of interest, allow ability of proposed costs, intellectual property, cost sharing, subcontracting, etc. in regards to sponsored projects.

- Completes sponsor proposal forms and documents based in accordance with program solicitation or guidelines for faculty sponsored project submissions to ORSPA for review and submission to sponsor.

- Provides guidance to faculty regarding solicitation guidelines and reviews proposals for conformity with guidelines.

- Assist Principal Investigator's (PIs) in reviewing and analyzing awards for compliance with respect to appropriate federal, state, Board of Regents & University policy & regulations in parallel with ORSPA's review prior to ORSPA's signing/acceptance of award.

- Advises and instructs department/unit faculty & staff with concerns regarding proposal development to assure compliance with appropriate federal, state, Board of Regents and University policy and regulations; including but not limited to, grant administration; sponsor interests; grantsmanship and other related topics.

- Provides a supportive environment to assist in increasing the number and frequency of proposal submissions; performs outreach activities to cultivate the interests of faculty not presently involved in the search for financial support for their graduate students and academic areas of interest.

- Provides reports to department/unit chair regarding sponsored activity (proposals, awards, expenditures).

- Assists Chair and Project Directors and/or Principal Investigators in sponsor regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Provides administrative support to ORSPA in negotiating problem items and unforeseen matters on current awards with sponsors.

- Aids in departmental/unit aspects of sponsored projects award administration - including but not limited to account reconciliation; allowability of costs; forecasting expenditures; providing financial reports and supporting ORSPA Accountants.

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree in a related field and four (4) years of experience, in a field appropriate to the area/unit of assignment; OR, eight (8) years of related administrative experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of education and/or experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Close Date  -  May 11, 2011

To apply or see a full description, please visit:  https://www.asu.edu/go/employment/?auth=guest
Job ID:  26315

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