Associate Director for Research Development

Associate Director For Research Development

The Associate Director for Research Development will be vital in establishing a robust LRI research development program and lead the planning, development, submission, and ongoing monitoring of LRI proposals and research.

The responsibilities include:

• Consulting with Director to establish a robust research development program that supports multidisciplinary research on Latino communities and research that is consequential for all communities.
• Working closely with Latino Research Institute (LRI) affiliates and other UT Austin faculty and graduate students to pursue grants which align with the UT Austin's mission more broadly.
• Working with the Director and Associate Director of Research to strategically lead LRI research, programs, and grant management objectives.
• Assisting the Director in establishing a comprehensive grant management tracking platform that monitors all LRI grants and programs.
• Working closely with COLA and OVPR grant management teams on all pre and post grant management processes.
• Serving as LRI's resident grants expert and providing timely and responsive support to researchers on a broad range of funding agency and university policies, procedures, and deadlines.
• Pursuing and managing institutional/center grants to support LRI core operations and activities and expand institutional objectives and initiatives.
• Continually refining and updating internal policies and procedures.
• Leading the LRI pre-award management/proposal process and development.
• Leading the LRI post-award management.
• Participating in LRI and COLA staff meetings as relevant to position.
• Serving as primary departmental contact for the College Research Support Office (RSO), the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP), COLA and UT Foundation Relations, and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors (OVPR) to facilitate timely, accurate, and complete proposal submission and post-award information requests.
• Supervising the Academic Program Coordinator.
• Working closely with the LRI's Administrative Associate to ensure availability of timely and accurate faculty effort percentages and financial reports to PIs and stakeholders.

Required qualifications include a bachelor's degree in a related field, five or more years of grants administration experience, with three or more years at a managerial level, including oversight of development, preparation, processing and oversight of sponsored research proposals and awards; alignment of grant deliverables to advance institutional strategic goals; and leading research development initiatives and grants training for various constituents from a broad range of experience.

Preferred qualifications include a graduate degree in social science, humanities or related field, demonstrated excellence in a University position that supports researchers, more than five years of experience in pre- and post- award research administration, experience managing interdisciplinary campus wide, national and international regranting, fellowship, seed funding and pilot programs for UT Austin students and faculty, and scholars external to the University, experience with design, implementation and evaluation studies and community-level research, certified research administrator (CRA), familiarity with University policies and procedures, knowledge of UT Austin's financial and/or research management systems, experience working with high volume grant proposals, experience in using NSF's Research.gov, NEH's eGMS Reach, FLUXX, Grants.gov and/or Cayuse, and other electronic research submission systems, advanced organizational skills, and multilingual, Spanish preferred.

Salary range is $100,000 + depending on qualifications.

Working conditions are typical office environment.

Required materials include resume/CV, 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor, and letter of interest.