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WashU IT

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501 - 1000 employees

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Education • Enterprise • SaaS

WashU IT is the information technology department of Washington University in St. Louis, providing essential IT services and support for the university's students, faculty, and staff. The department is integral to facilitating the university’s academic, research, and administrative functions, ensuring that technological resources and solutions are efficiently delivered and maintained across the university’s campuses. WashU IT also plays a crucial role in helping the university confront complex technological challenges and enhance its operational capabilities.

📋 Description

• Plays a vital role in the sponsor project life cycle, ensuring that research proposals adhere to sponsor guidelines and are successfully submitted. • Supports faculty, center directors, and staff throughout the pre-award stage of sponsored projects, including proposal preparation and submission, just-in-time requests, and compliance. • Manages a portfolio of faculty post award and payroll sourcing activities with minimal supervision for a research-intensive department. • May manage grants for Research Centers. • Provides oversight and day-to-day management of research administration. • Performs pre-award job duties in response to specific proposal guidelines for complex proposals. • Works with faculty in proposal preparation and submission. • Manages budgeting, analysis, justifications for proposals; gathers information for protocols and non-technical proposal components as needed. • Acts as liaison between the Chair, Faculty, and Department Administrators (DAs). • Stays current on federal and university developments regarding research administration and complex regulations. • Coordinates with the Post-award unit to ensure timely implementation of contracts and subcontracts. • Manages and monitors complex sponsored projects budgets and ensures appropriate and timely expenditures and reconciliation of funds.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or combination of education and/or experience may substitute for minimum education. • Relevant Experience (4 Years), Grants Administration (2 Years). • Knowledge of S2S and SUBS systems. • Knowledge of agency guidelines. • Skills: Adobe Acrobat, Analytical Thinking, Computerized Accounting, Computer Literacy, Deadline Management, Grant Administration, IBM Cognos Analytics, Interpersonal Communication, Learning New Technologies, Learning Systems, Maintaining Composure, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Oral Communications, Regulatory Compliance, Supervisory Management, Workday Software, Written Communication.

🏖️ Benefits

• Up to 22 days of vacation, 10 recognized holidays, and sick time. • Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance. • Free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees. • Defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, starting at 7%. • Wellness challenges, annual health screenings, mental health resources, mindfulness programs and courses, employee assistance program (EAP), financial resources, access to dietitians. • 4 weeks of caregiver leave to bond with your new child. • Tuition coverage for you and your family, including dependent undergraduate-level college tuition up to 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years.