Research Administration Associate Jobs

Title: Research Administration Associate

Division: Molecular and Human Genetics

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Work Location: Houston, TX

Salary Range: $67,000 - $78,514

FLSA Status: Exempt

Requisition ID: 16308

Summary

The Research Administration Associate (RAA) supports the Zoghbi and Dhindsa labs, contributes to the pre-award and programmatic activities for all federal, state, and private foundation research grant awards. The RAA ensures compliance with all federal, sponsor, and institutional policies and guidelines and serves as a liaison between faculty, Baylor College of Medicine, and award sponsors. This position is business transactional in nature in a high volume, deadline driven work environment. It requires good reading, writing, and organizational skills, the ability to analyze and problem solve in a fast paced work environment.

This role is eligible for hybrid work schedule working several days in the office each week.

Job Duties

• Monitors office email and ensures communications are responded to in a timely manner.
• Attends weekly office meetings and monthly/quarterly workshops.
• Processes, prepares, reports, tracks, and ensures compliance on a variety of pre-award and post-award transactions.
• Processes research awards and prepares accounting information for the post-award central team.
• Reviews, negotiates, tracks and follows the execution of a variety of research agreements, such as subaward agreements, material transfer agreements, data use agreements and confidentiality agreements.
• Reviews, submits, and tracks budget and administrative sections of grant applications and progress reports using internal and external sites and databases.
• Maintains special tracking systems and follows detailed checklists to ensure accuracy and compliance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Two years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree. Certified Research Administrator certification through the Research Administrators Certification Council (RACC) may substitute for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Research administrative work experience in an academic research setting.
• Contract management and negotiation experience.
• Some financial knowledge.

Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.