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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:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more 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
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 14
• Minimum – $97,100.00
• MidPoint – $121,400.00
• Maximum – $145,700.00