A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should clearly address your interest in the position and relate your skills and experiences to the qualifications described in this posting. 

The Data Science for Dynamic Intervention Decision-Making Center (d3center) is seeking an experienced Research Administrator to provide comprehensive pre- and post-award research administration support for a complex and diverse research portfolio. The d3c Research Administrator will partner closely with faculty, staff, and central offices to ensure compliant, efficient, and strategic stewardship of sponsored projects across their full lifecycle, including a P50 Center for Excellence award from the NIH. 

The Data Science for Dynamic Intervention Decision-Making Center (d3center) is an interdisciplinary collective of data scientists revolutionizing the design and delivery of interventions in healthcare and education. d3c strives to cultivate a bottom-up, interactive, team-oriented workplace that values, above all else, how people work together in the service of developing and disseminating novel data science tools that matter. As we develop the methodological toolkit scientists need to address today's biggest public health challenges, we're building an open-source ecosystem for sharing our tools and collaborating with and training scientific partners to implement our methodology to solve real-world problems. Through partnerships with stakeholders around the world, we will catalyze a new generation of evidence-based, technology-powered treatments that improve health and education outcomes for everyone. 

This position will report to the d3c Managing Director, and partner closely with experienced research administrators housed within the Survey Research Center (SRC).

Post-Award Project Administration and Financial Management: 

• Manage post-award activities for a portfolio of sponsored projects, including award setup, financial oversight, effort reporting, subaward management, and closeout.
• Monitor expenditures and commitments to ensure alignment with sponsor terms, approved budgets, and project timelines. 
• Reconcile accounts on a monthly basis for accuracy and allowability and to ensure compliance with SRC, U-M, and sponsor guidelines. 
• Prepare and maintain monthly faculty effort spreadsheets to track effort commitments across time. 
• Identify and resolve compliance, financial, and administrative issues; escalate risks as appropriate and recommend corrective actions. 
• Prepare materials for annual sponsor project reports such as Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPR), preparing subcontracts in eResearch, routing purchase orders, managing PeoplePays, and other reporting requirements 

Pre-Award Activities: 

• Lead and coordinate the preparation, review, and submission of complex proposals, including multi-PI, multi-institutional, and center-scale submissions. 
• Develop and review detailed budgets and justifications, including cost sharing, subawards, effort commitments, and compliance components. 
• Interpret and apply sponsor, federal, and university policies to ensure proposals are accurate, competitive, and compliant. 
• Prepare and finalize commonly required proposals documents such as facilities, biosketches, and managing subcontract forms 
• Route proposals through the eResearch proposal management system at the University of Michigan ensuring timely submissions 
• Prepare Just in Time documentation and other sponsored requests 

Compliance: 

• Ensure compliance with sponsor, ISR, SRC and university guidelines 
• Help with the creation and management of Unfunded Agreements/Data Use Agreements (UFA/DUA) in eRPM 
• Help draft administrative pieces for Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications for human subjects studies 
• Attend research administration meetings and training to remain current on changes in policies and procedures affecting proposal preparation, financial and administrative reporting

• Bachelor degree and 7+ years (Lead level) of progressive experience in research administration, including both pre- and post-award responsibilities.
• Bachelor degree and 5 - 7 years (Senior level) of progressive experience in research administration, including both pre- and post-award responsibilities.
• Experience with pre- and post-award federal awards 
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office products, Google suites and communication applications such as Zoom 

• Experience with business tools such as eResearch, Business Objects, and other administrative tools

   

• Experience supporting infrastructure and/or center grants 
• Experience with ISR research administration systems (e.g., proposal and award management, financial reporting systems). 

In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, the University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself and any eligible family members and plan for a secure future. Benefits include: 

Generous time off 

A retirement plan that provides two-for-one matching contributions with immediate vesting upon meeting eligibility requirements 

Many choices for comprehensive health insurance 

Life insurance 

Long-term disability coverage 

Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses Learn more about U-M benefits. 

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Work location is expected to be remote. 

Openings may be filled at the Research Administrator Lead or Senior level depending on match with opportunity, your depth and breadth of experience and qualifications.

Positions at the Research Administrator Senior level will be filled at the $85,000-$95,000 salary range.

Positions at the Research Administrator Lead level will be filled at the $95,000-$106,000 salary range.

The Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan seeks to create a community of respect and authentic collaboration by recruiting and retaining individuals that represent a variety of voices as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of Michigan, to maintain the excellence of the university, and to ground our research in varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning. 

Institute for Social Research job openings are posted for a minimum of fourteen (14) calendar days. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended. 

The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. 

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.