Posting Description

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (PILM), oversees all financial and sponsored research for a large, complex neuroscience research portfolio; serves as a senior leader within the Finance team, ensuring strong financial stewardship, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence in support of PILM’s scientific mission; manages the full lifecycle of sponsored research administration, including pre-award proposal development, post-award financial management, forecasting, and closeout; leads operating and program budget planning; prepares financial analyses and multiyear projections; provides faculty and Institute leadership with clear financial insights, expenditure tracking, and funding strategy guidance supervises and mentors a team of research administration and financial staff, fostering consistent service standards, cross-coverage, and professional development including staff coaching, performance management, and delivering financial training to administrative and lab personnel; and drives compliance, process improvement, and audit readiness, developing standard operating procedures and responding to audit inquiries.

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