Assistant Director

The Assistant Director of Research Administration provides School-level leadership and oversight for the BBS Grant Core, with a primary focus on pre-award strategy, compliance, and operational consistency across departments. This position is a newly established role designed to support and guide embedded departmental Research Administrators (RAs) while strengthening coordination, standardization, and proactive management of the School’s research portfolio.

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Finance and Administration, with a dotted-line relationship to the Associate Dean of Research and the department research administrators, the Assistant Director serves as a key liaison between departments and central administrative units. The role ensures alignment with University policies, sponsor requirements, and federal regulations—including OMB 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance)—while providing senior leadership with regular reporting on proposal activity, projections, compliance risks, and areas of concern. This position supervises the Manager, Research Administration.

Through training, oversight, and strategic coordination, this position enhances proposal competitiveness, mitigates risk, and ensures a consistent, high-quality approach to research administration across all BBS departments.