Summary

The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine seeks an experienced and strategic Lead, Research Administration to manage the administrative and financial operations of the Office of Surgical Research. The Department of Surgery's research operations include over 300 clinical trials and grants with over $157M in total funding. The Lead, Research Administration plays a key role in the strategic planning for achieving the Department's research goals and continued improvement of extramural and NIH funding. The ideal candidate will bring strong communication, analytical, and organizational skills to drive operational excellence in a dynamic surgical research environment.

Potential for hybrid work after initial training period.

Employees with CRA certification are eligible for certification pay.

Job Duties

• Provide grant program expertise, financial expertise, and guidance related to sponsored research and educational grant application development for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students pursuing independent funding.
• Maintain awards portfolio.
• Coordinate directly with faculty needing assistance and support to develop individual and multi-program proposals. This includes assistance with grant proposal application systems and grant progress or financial reports due to sponsors (closeout of sponsored awards).
• Serve as liaison between faculty, BCM central offices, national and international institutions, and/or federal/private funding agencies.
• Responsible for the management of high impact projects and department priorities (T32 awards, transfer of grants and contracts of PIs joining BCM, multi-PI grant applications, CPRIT recruitment awards and U01s).
• Coordinate design and implementation of training for division and department administrators on research operations.
• Manage time and effort reporting of research staff and faculty.
• Work with department finance and administrative teams to ensure correct faculty effort/salary calculations.
• Prepare, submit and follow up on grant applications and set up grant and subcontract initial applications, renewals, and no‐cost extensions, by certifying summary data in the College's electronic Biomedical Research and Assurance Information Network (BRAIN) on behalf of the Department.
• Design, maintain and oversee research databases.
• Provide research metrics reports to department leadership.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Department Specific Criteria

• Experience with grant management in basic science and/or clinical research.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with programmatic grants a plus.
• Experience with strategic planning.