Req #: 240544
Department: REHABILITATION MEDICINE
Job Location Detail: Seattle non-campus - Ninth Jefferson Building/Harborview Medical Center - hybrid
Posting Date: 11/07/2024
Closing Info: Open Until Filled
Salary: $7,834 - $9,167 per month
Shift: First Shift
Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf)
As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Operations Manager to join their team.
US News & World Report consistently ranks the University of Washington Department of Rehabilitation Medicine among the top programs in the country. We are among the nation’s leading recipients of research and training funding from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, including the TBI and Burn Model Systems grants. We have a long history of innovative clinical and research programs, strong research infrastructure, active mentoring of junior faculty and a rich network of potential clinical and research collaborators among faculty within and outside our department.
The department offers four graduate degree programs, including master's degrees in Occupational Therapy and Prosthetics & Orthotics, as well as a Doctor of Physical Therapy, and a PhD in Rehabilitation Science.
The Research Operations Manager (ROM) is an administrative leader in the department responsible for the planning, development, and maintenance of the research operations and administration infrastructure. This position is central to further developing our world class research programs, improving our ability to attract new opportunities and collaborations, and enhancing our research portfolio and national/international reputation.
The ROM will oversee research operations for the department, ensuring strategic plans are in place for growth, capacity building, adaptability, and compliance. This role will report to the Director of Grants and Contracts, with dotted line reporting to the Department’s Vice Chair for Research (VCR). The role will also work closely with the Department Vice Chair for Finance and Administration (VCFA). The Manager is responsible for designing and maintaining information systems, maintaining physical research infrastructure, identifying research opportunities, providing general grants support, optimizing human resources, and developing communications and relationships. The ROM will direct and monitor progress of key milestones and outcomes of the departments Strategic Plan for Advancing Research and foster research collaboration across the department. In addition, the ROM will build cohesion across multiple overlapping yet distinct administrative components within the department that relate to research administration (e.g. grants management team, HR, finance, communications, academic programs, etc.).
The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine received more than $15M in research funding in FY24 across a wide variety of focus areas including basic science, clinical trials, translational research, health services research, and industry studies. In addition, the department research faculty are also actively involved in clinical care (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Psychology), teaching programs in Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Rehabilitation Sciences (PhD) and service with national organizations. The ROM will utilize the facilities, human resources, IT and communication systems needed to support the diverse portfolios and initiatives across the department.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Research Program And Project Management
• Planning, development, and maintenance of research operations infrastructure to include designing and maintaining information systems, research facility and space management, optimizing human resources, and maintaining faculty and staff research communications.
• In collaboration with and under the purview of the Vice Chair for Research, support (and in certain cases lead) implementation of tactics/strategies to advance research across department.
• Tracks implementation of tactics and metrics including communicating with tactic leads.
• Supports large center grant applications and provides
Location: Seattle, WA
Posted: Nov. 8, 2024, 9:29 p.m.
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