Administrative Director - Microbiology

Administrative Director - Microbiology

Department:

SOM KC Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetic and Immunology

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Microbiology

Position Title:

Administrative Director - Microbiology

Job Family Group:

Professional Staff

Job Description Summary:

The Administrative Director leads, oversees, and directs the staff responsible for all the Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology administrative services in support of the Department's and University's mission. The Administrative Director assists the Department Chair, performs a variety of highly responsible, complex, and confidential administrative duties that include managing the department's internal budget, funding/grant awards, faculty affairs, personnel and recruiting activities, and supervises a team of administrative support staff. Develop business practices/systems related to maintaining all financial records management/compliance reporting and determination of expense eligibility. The role includes performing or assisting the HR analyst and other functions in Workday. The Administrative Director's confidential administrative duties requires a thorough knowledge of organizational procedures and precedents.

Job Description:

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Chair Support: Provide administrative support to the Department Chair.

Event Planning: Serve as primary contact for planning Departmental events including faculty and staff events and other social events.

Department Budgets and Personnel: Prepare an annual all-funds operating and personnel budget.

• Prepare and meet deadlines for the SOM budget submission and enter the department's budget into the University system.

• Develop departmental and individual faculty and lab budgets and finalize these budgets for review by the Chair.

• Perform monthly updates to Adaptive related to changes in departmental expenditure plans for the remaining fiscal year.

• Oversee staff in purchasing supplies for research labs, and tuition payments.

Graduate Program, Faculty Affairs and Faculty Recruiting: Staff the Department's Promotion and Tenure Committee and assist the Chair with required evaluations, prepare confidential reports and maintain confidential files. Serve as the Department's recruiter for faculty searches.

• Attend annual training and update sessions, assist faculty with completing and submitting P&T applications, verify that all submitted application information is complete, schedule departmental P&T meetings, and submit department and chair recommendation letters.

• Assist the Chair with faculty and personnel reviews, update review forms, disseminate information and collect faculty data.

• Provide Chair with updates on faculty information, schedule review meetings, and finalize reviews for submission to the School of Medicine. Schedule and staff the department's monthly faculty meetings and prepare agendas. Follow up on action items.

• Work with the faculty research retreat committee to plan the annual research retreat.

• Enter faculty position descriptions into the University system, request placement of ads, request security check, dispense with other applicants, prepare faculty offer letters and recruitment packages, schedule all new employee meetings and trainings, provide general university and department orientation, discuss lab and personnel needs with new faculty members, provide faculty onboarding assistance, and assist with grant transfers.

• Assist the Department Chair in developing a faculty development program for new faculty members.

• Oversee administration of graduate program to include departmental teaching, including room assignments, A/V, handouts, posting of courses, grades, and materials to Blackboard; serve as liaison to graduate students; assure students are maintaining timelines for committee meetings.

Grants Management:

• Pre Award: Assist faculty with required grant submission documents and budgeting and work closely with the IASC group to prepare departmental grant submissions and sub-awards. Work with IASC to maintain all faculty other support and assist with JIT submissions as needed.

• Post-Award: Prepare costing allocations for all new awards and review bi-weekly payroll reports to verify funding/effort and submit payroll accounting adjustments if needed. Prepare monthly reconciliations and spending projections for each grant managed by the department. Prepare grant budget reallocation requests as needed. Work with Research Administration post-award for all grant compliance. Work with the IASC related to effort certification, progress report submissions, and no cost extensions.

Departmental Administrative and Staff Management: Develop departmental administrative policies; support the Chair, faculty in meeting the Department's mission. Advise chair on the University mandated policies and assist in meeting School of Medicine and university requirements.

• Adjust staff workflow as business practices change.

• Provide training and updates to all personnel regarding university policies. Serve as the recruiter for non-trainee employees and provide oversight to non-faculty hires.

• Assign projects to fit workflow needs, update work assignments and position descriptions as needed. Administer an annual administrative staff review process.

• Manage department offices including space allocation, furniture and equipment acquisition and maintenance; implement necessary changes to equipment upgrades; train administrative staff in the use of new technology; direct operational tasks necessary to insure the smooth and efficient running of the department on a daily basis.

• Manage department administrative staff recruitment, assignment, training, supervision, counseling, and evaluation; assure proper staffing to provide timely services and support to faculty; maintain accounting records, timekeeping, personnel files, paperwork, reports; act as liaison between faculty and staff.

Work Environment

Work is normally performed in a typical interior work environment which does not usually subject the employee to any unpleasant elements.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting, science, education or related field, or comparable education and/or relevant year for year experience.

Work Experience

• 6 years of experience in administration.

• 2 years in a senior administrative level performing administrative, supervision, office management, budgeting, and accounting functions.

• 6 years of experience working with databases, MS Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), other related software, and office equipment.

• 3 years of experience administering, preparing and/or managing NIH or similar funded grants in pre- and post-award processes.

Preferred Qualifications

Education: Master's degree in business administration, accounting, science, education or related field, or comparable education and/or relevant year for year experience.

Work Experience

• 3 or more years of Redcap development experience.

• Previous experience in an academic research environment and health center strongly preferred.

Skills

• Knowledge of and experience with State of Kansas accounting, budgeting, and personnel systems.

• Knowledge of federal, state of Kansas and University policies.

• Excellent time management, organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to multitask to provide excellent customer service, follow through and meet timelines.

• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, ability to be a team player.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Documents:

Resume

Cover letter

Comprehensive Benefits Package:

Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html

Employee Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Rate Type:

Salary

Compensation Statement:

The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above.

Pay Range:

$83,000.00 - $131,000.00

Minimum

$83,000.00

Midpoint

$107,000.00

Maximum

$131,000.00

Application Instructions:

To learn more and apply online, please visit https://apptrkr.com/5773917 or go to https://careers.kumc.edu/ and search for position number JR007766.

Applications must be submitted directly through the KU Medical Center website to be considered for this position. Any applications submitted via email or this website will NOT be reviewed or considered.

About KU Medical Center:

The University of Kansas Medical Center’s mission is to educate exceptional health care professionals through a full range of undergraduate, graduate, professional, postdoctoral and continuing education programs in the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions. KU Medical Center also advances the health sciences through world-class research programs; provides compassionate and state-of-the-art patient care in an academic medical center environment; and works with communities in every Kansas county to improve the health of Kansans. Learn more at http://www.kumc.edu/.

Benefits:

KUMC offers a range of great benefits that support employees and eligible family members. Our health insurance benefits begin on hire date and KUMC offers other exciting benefits such as paid parental leave, generous employer retirement contributions and other resources to improve health and well-being. For more information, please visit https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The University of Kansas Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, age, protected veteran or disability status, marital status, parental status, or genetic information. http://policy.ku.edu/IOA/nondiscrimination