Director of Research Systems & Analytics

UT Health Sciences; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 62,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

UT Health Sciences is seeking a Manager, Research Systems to lead the research administration systems, ensure data integrity, and provide analytics used to manage the portfolio and report service performance. The role oversees configuration, workflow, testing, and integrations with financial systems.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in a related field and at least four years of experience in research administration or a closely related function; a Master’s degree is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Research Administration, or a related field. (Master’s Degree preferred.)
• Four (4) years of experience in research administration, business systems analysis, or a closely related function; OR Master’s Degree and two (2) years of experience in research administration, business systems analysis, or a closely related function; OR a combination of related education and work experience to equal eight (8) years.

Responsibilities

• Serves as functional owner for research administration systems, including configuration, workflow, user access, and release testing.
• Maintains reliable integration between research administration and financial systems to ensure award and financial data transfers accurately and efficiently.
• Leads functional testing for system upgrades, implementations, and changes affecting research administration operations.
• Identifies manual, duplicative, and inefficient processes across research administration offices and drives automation through system configuration, workflow, and integration.
• Produces shared service-performance measures, including proposal turnaround, agreement cycle time, award acceptance-to-setup, invoice aging, reporting timeliness, and closeout completion.
• Detects and drives the correction of data errors and traces recurring errors to the process cause.
• Develops portfolio analytics and management reports for the Vice Chancellor for Research, Deans, department leaders, and research administration leadership.
• Operates a quality review program across institutional review and agreement records.
• Establishes and maintains data standards for research administration and monitors adherence across systems and business processes.
• Maintains business continuity and disaster recovery procedures for research administration systems, including documented backup coverage for critical administrator access.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

System configuration

Workflow design

Functional testing

Data analysis

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Grants management platforms

Enterprise financial systems

Job description

UT Health Sciences is seeking a Manager, Research Systems to lead the research administration systems, ensure data integrity, and provide analytics used to manage the portfolio and report service performance. The role oversees configuration, workflow, testing, and integrations with financial systems.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in a related field and at least four years of experience in research administration or a closely related function; a Master’s degree is preferred.