Assistant Director, Research Administration

Assistant Director, Research Administration

Ginzton Laboratory has an exciting opportunity to join our research administration and financial management team. We are seeking an Assistant Director, Research Administration to work under general supervision of the Managing Director to oversee a high performing team of grant administrators. This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with sponsor and university policies and guidelines by implementing and maintaining policies within the grant management group, as well as providing training, mentorship, and support for direct reports. This position will direct the sponsored research team in overseeing the entire life cycle of awards. This includes financial forecasting and reporting, interpreting, and communicating department, university, and sponsor processes and policy, reviewing and approving financial transactions, reviewing expenditure statements, and providing guidance and direction in escalations and complex scenarios. This position serves as a department resource on research administration and develops strong collaborations with faculty, staff, and both internal and external partners.

This is a busy position requiring a high level of professionalism, leadership, productivity, accuracy, initiative, sound judgement and decision making, attention to detail, and follow-through. We are seeking an experienced professional in grant management with a background in pre and post award management, a very strong customer-service and work ethic, excellent communication and technical skills, a collaborative problem-solver, and who interacts well with all levels in a culturally diverse population. This position will manage five other research administrator team members who directly support the financial portfolio of 20 active faculty members and emeriti. We welcome you to apply to work on our team of engaged and collaborative team members who strive for continued growth to be the best we can be.

Core Duties

• Manage the work of other employees, make hiring decisions, provide coaching and mentoring, manage performance, contribute to succession planning within area of responsibility.
• Establish overall objectives or direction for a unit, project, or operational area. Plan, direct, and monitor all budgets for areas of responsibility, and manage business operation and administration of a functional unit or area; may lead a team in providing post award sponsored research administration and services.
• Identify and resolve complex issues which may span multiple areas, apply ingenuity and creativity to problem analysis and resolution.
• Oversee report preparation and analysis requiring the consolidation of multiple, complex financial and statistical data points.
• Communicate financial policies and procedures; ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness for management financial processes and reports.
• Collaborate with other colleagues on cross functional projects; contribute to solutions that may affect policy changes or the development of new controls or processes.
• Participate in critical analysis of existing systems, policies, and procedures; recommend and implement approved solutions.
• Contribute to projects in work area or unit; make decisions determining approach to managing and completing processes.
• Represent the unit within the functional unit or school and to external constituencies.

Minimum Requirements

Education & Experience : Bachelor's degree and six years relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience.

Physical Requirements

Working Conditions

Work Standards

Onsite / Hybrid : The expected pay range for this position is $146,116 to $165,219 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on a wide range of factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to geographic location, knowledge, skills and abilities, relevant education, depth and breadth of experience, performance; as well as other business and organization needs such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the minimum qualifications, departmental budget availability, and market and internal equity across the unit, department and reporting relationships.

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The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned. Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact Stanford University Human Resources by submitting a contact form.