Fund Manager

Responsibilities

As the Fund Manager for the Division of Medicine Pediatrics Research, you will provide budgetary and financial administration to Principal Investigators for all facets of pre-award development and post-award administration to include Federal, State, private, and clinical research contracts and grants with approximately $20 million dollars in annual appropriations. Duties will include; but not limited to:

• Facilitate the preparation of grant proposals and putting together budgets for upcoming proposals.
• Assess potential funding opportunities with individual or joint faculty.
• Coordinate grant application submission.
• Provide financial analysis and long-range planning for all awards, to include faculty salaries, staff salaries, and project related expenses such as travel, subcontracts, and other project materials.
• Oversee operations of post-award activation and administration.
• Review and recommend new administrative organizational policies and procedures to improve awards administration and overdraft minimization.
• Develop systemized accounting operations for division.
• Recruit, train, and supervise fiscal managers, including division fund manager, division purchasing assistant, and satellite office financial specialists.
• Train and supervise pre-award fund manager to ensure that correct policies are followed and documents are submitted in a timely manner.
• Serve as divisional resource in areas of sponsored research and fund management.

Qualifications

Required:

• Demonstrated skill in financial analysis, planning, preparation, and administration of a budget with multiple complex funding sources.
• Demonstrated experience in post-award research administration, including fund close-out.
• Skill in using various resources to research funding opportunities specific to individual investigators’ interests.
• Demonstrated ability in supervising employees, including selection, training, work review, evaluation, and discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in interpretation and hands-on application of accounting, budgetary, and auditing principles and practices in a University or non-profit environment.
• Demonstrated skill in preparing short and long term budget projections and analyzing financial reports.
• Working knowledge of University, NIH, and other major awarding agencies’ grants restrictions and requirements.
• General knowledge of University personnel, payroll, purchasing and travel procedures and policies.
• Familiarity with human subject and animal subject and IRB policies and procedures.
• Skill in programmatic evaluation to develop and maintain information systems as they relate to extramural awards and proposals, personnel, financial and organizational needs.

UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.