Posting Description

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF DLCI RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION ENGAGEMENT, VP for Research, will play a critical leadership role in advancing MIT’s Departments, Labs, Centers, Initiatives (DLCI) Initiative and continuing the foundational work underway with Human Resources and the DLCIs while leading the buildout of the research administration education and training program; serve as the lead administrative point of contact for MIT’s strategic agreements with Institute-affiliated organizations (e.g., Broad, Draper, Whitehead, Ragon, AFFOA); design and manage a centralized onboarding program for DLCI research administrators, ensuring consistent, tracked, and up-to-date training across all units; collaborate with Assistant Deans, DLC Directors of Administration and Finance, RAS Contract Administrators and Research Systems & Support to better understand DLCI admin needs; advise Business and Digital Transformation team on OVPR efforts and align resources; develop documentation, standards, and a proactive monitoring system to support compliant and consistent post-award administration across DLCIs; provide the bridge between MIT Audit, VPR Cost Analysis, RSS and the DLCIs to address inconsistent processes and practices to reduce audit findings; improve research administration best practices and processes, in collaboration with the Research End-to-End process project; and serve as the lead for a new centralized issue resolution hub, managing the investigation and cross-office coordination required to resolve complex research administration problems.

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