Director, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration
Job description
The Director of the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA) has the primary function of leading the OSPA, which has the mission of facilitating, supporting, and advancing externally sponsored activities on the SIU Carbondale campus. These activities include a variety of research, research training, and scholarly and creative endeavors. This role includes providing regulatory oversight, interpreting and explaining federal, state, and university regulation, responding to external questions, developing policies and procedures and supervising several distinctly different departments. The Director acts as the university's authorized official and has signature authority for proposal submission, sponsored grants and contracts and fiscal billings/reporting.
The Director of OSPA reports directly to the Vice Chancellor for Research. The Director supervises a staff of fourteen (14): 9 Civil Service and 5 Administrative Professionals (A/P).
The Director's primary role is to lead the OSPA, which has the mission of facilitating, supporting and advancing sponsored activities of the faculty, staff, and students of SIUC. These activities include a variety of research, research training and scholarly and creative endeavors. The Director is the university's signature authority (Institutional Official) for sponsored grants and contracts for federal, state, for profit, non-profit organizations and both central and project financial accounting.
The OSPA is responsible for all university sponsored (external) project activities, including all centrally-administered proposal development and submissions (pre-award), grant administration (post-award), and fiscal administration (grant and contract accounting).
The OSPA has the obligation to assure compliance with state and federal rules and regulations governing research and to foster and uphold the highest ethical standards of that research. Research compliance such as IACUC, IRB, or FOCI are managed by the Department of Research Compliance (RC). The OPSA's role is to develop and revise internal policies to facilitate preliminary reviews and provide information to the RC.
The OSPA promotes communication of the results of campus research and scholarly activity and facilitates the advancement of expansion of the SIUC research enterprise. These activities involve updating and maintaining the OSPA website and various databases and working closely with the Principal Investigators.
- Must have a Master's degree, PhD preferred.
- At least five years of research-administration experience at a US research university to include pre/post awards compliance, financial, and supervisory experience.
- Extensive experience with federal financial requirements, including the single audit, uniform guidance requirements, and other financial regulations.
- Knowledge regulations and grant and contract policies of major federal, state, and non-profit funding agencies.
- Ability to interact with diverse constituents and work as part of a team.
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