Strategic Clinical Research Program Lead

Northwestern University; Chicago (IL); In loco; USD 63.000 - 81.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Northwestern University’s Research Accelerator Unit (RAU) seeks a Program Administrator to manage administrative and financial operations for a growing clinical research portfolio across multiple divisions. You will oversee strategic planning, budgets, IT coordination, and cross-unit collaboration to ensure compliant, efficient management of programs and trials.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, contract negotiations, and performance monitoring to sustain growth and mission alignment

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree or higher; or appropriate combination of education and experience.
• 4 years of program/project administration or other relevant experience.

Mansioni

• Directs and leads development of program/project strategic plan.
• Oversees day-to-day operations; ensures that day-to-day operations are appropriately managed, efficient and effective.
• Operationalizes goals & objectives; ensures that resources are created or obtained.
• Manages customer service; creates associated practices & procedures & metrics to measure success.
• Analyzes data & recommends & implements changes & improvement to better ensure attainment of mission.
• Manages logistics requirements, including facilities, venue, scheduling, technology, instruction, catering, etc.
• Oversees documentation of agreements between NU and partner institutions, ensuring that agreements are complete and reviewed by all necessary NU officials.
• Participates in developing IT strategy to meet the mission & needs of program/project.
• Ensures necessary hardware, software & network infrastructure technology services are appropriated from central or internal IT.
• Ensures that the program/project meets associated revenue & expense goals.
• Develops and implements ideas for improving business processes, and increasing program/project revenues and margins.
• Plans & manages complex budget(s)… financial sustainability & enhancement models.
• Plans & implements annual budget process.
• Oversees all daily, monthly & annual financial activities including transactions, analysis, & reporting.
• Approves funds reallocation within budget as necessary & appropriate.
• Directs program/project marketing/branding efforts.
• Identifies and implements short- & long-term strategies and plans to meet program/project goals.
• Engages in outreach/field relations serving a number of goals…
• Interacts with internal/external resources & organizations to identify new markets & opportunities.
• Builds relationships with program/project alumni to develop and cultivate professional networks, financial resources, and sense of community among alumni.
• Oversees development & implementation of evaluation processes, quantitative & qualitative measurements that ensure that program/project benchmarks are successfully attained and communicated in a timely and efficient manner.
• Manages evaluation processes; recommends & implements changes for enhancement; monitors effectiveness through follow-up evaluation studies.
• Collaborates with internal/external resources to develop meaningful outcome measurements and methods of program/project evaluation that will lead to enhancement.
• Manages professional research administration support staff in order to facilitate & enhance all administrative grant processes & related compliance.
• Responsible for pre- & post-award administration completed by research administrators.
• Builds relationships with Principal Investigators (PIs) & NU research associated offices.
• Transfers knowledge & advises on research policy & procedure.
• Manages payroll administration for research appointments.
• Manages goals, objectives, outcome measurements and metrics, financial feasibility, marketing strategies and collaboration opportunities with other internal and external organizations.
• Manages the ongoing development and refinement of the program's/project's current and future curriculum and course offerings in consultation with subject matter experts.
• Manages the recruits, hires, and directs instructors/faculty.
• Provides leadership for planning, scheduling, delivering and maintaining program(s)/project(s) to sustain quality instruction in all educational activity.
• Manages for consistently high quality standards across all partner programs/projects, including admissions, teaching, grading, service levels, and facilities.
• Creates & leads a coordinated program of activities designed to increase program/project objectives.
• Develops & executes strategies to involve internal/external constituents and cultivate new collaborations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Conoscenze

Budget development

Contract negotiations

Multidisciplinary teams

CERES system

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or higher

Strumenti

CERES enterprise system

Descrizione del lavoro

Northwestern University’s Research Accelerator Unit (RAU) seeks a Program Administrator to manage administrative and financial operations for a growing clinical research portfolio across multiple divisions. You will oversee strategic planning, budgets, IT coordination, and cross-unit collaboration to ensure compliant, efficient management of programs and trials.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, contract negotiations, and performance monitoring to sustain growth and mission alignment