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Research Compliance

Research Compliance Managers organize, coordinate, and manage research compliance program daily activities ensuring legislative, regulatory, and policy compliance. Manager responsibilities include reviewing and assisting investigators with research protocols; providing advice, oversight, and administrative review of non-compliance and research misconduct matters; developing, reviewing, and revising policy, procedures, and guidelines; assisting with the accreditation processing; managing external requests for review board activity; developing and implementing an outreach program; keeping current on regulatory requirements; hiring, training, and supervising personnel; recruiting and appointing board members; and acting as unit director when needed.

• Organize, coordinate, and manage research compliance program daily activities to ensure legislative, regulatory, and policy compliance
• Review new/modified research protocols; assist investigators, faculty, and staff with protocol submission compliance
• Provide subject-matter advice, oversight, and administrative review regarding non-compliance and research misconduct assessments, inquiries, investigations, audits, and inspections; prepare reports and follow-up as needed
• Develop, review, and, as necessary, revise research compliance policies, procedures, and guidelines enhancing institutional and departmental strategies; establish goals and objectives identifying successful program indicators
• Assist with accreditation process; prepare and submit annual/interim reports; coordinate re-accreditation materials and activities
• Manage external requests for institutional/departmental review board activity; review agreements; develop billing structure; serve as liaison
• Develop and implement outreach programs promoting responsible and compliant research conduct and integrity; conduct training sessions, seminars, and workshops
• Keep current on regulatory requirements and organizational demands impacting research compliance standards; disseminate information as needed; attend workshops and seminars
• Hire, train, coach, supervise, and evaluate research compliance personnel; identify and provide professional development opportunities; recruit and appoint personnel to review boards
• May serve as unit director during director’s absence

Level:

– Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates proficient ability in work design, project management, financial planning and development of goals for accomplishing unit assignments. Reviews and guides work to ensure conformity to policy and effective approaches. Evaluates employee performance and recommend development opportunities. Demonstrates ability to coach employees. Presents and communicates key university indicatives and connects it to unit contributions. Provides broad guidelines. Develops, evaluates, enhances, and/or implements quality improvement practices. Recommends innovative solutions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees a team (typically 4 or more; no fewer than 2) full
– time direct reports of individual contributors and/or first level supervisors.

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks department/area budget
– May plan, forecast, and/or assist in developing budgets
– May have final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters varied and complex problems
– Helps to develop creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature but within limited scope
– Modifies, adapts, or refines guidelines if necessary to resolve issues or problems

Independence of Action:

– Works independently on complex or strategic assignments
– Uses existing practices and advanced working knowledge to determine appropriate work methods for the team
– Reviews completed work of others for conformity to policy, and effectiveness of approach
– Delegates advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Prepares written and/or verbal presentations or proposals on complex issues and delivers to a broad variety of audiences
– Communicates key university initiatives and how unit’s work contributes to their achievement
– Presents ideas, concepts and instructions in a clear manner, and uses persuasion and negotiation to build consensus and cooperation
– Establishes and maintains networks to facilitate successful communication among units

• Comp Grade – 13
• Minimum – $86,300.00
• MidPoint – $107,900.00
• Maximum – $129,500.00