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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:

– Principal Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates awareness of broad issues and management trends. Applies exemplary management principles. Evaluates impact of policy and adjusts accordingly. Ensures appropriate skills are developed and maintained within team/unit. Realigns staff responsibilities to meet desired changes. Provides administrative and policy direction. Develops and articulates broad goals. Fosters collaboration between units. Engages in written and verbal communications that reach a university-wide and/or broad external audience. Develops and implements solutions to highly complex and often controversial problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees teams of other supervisors/managers
– Leads a business unit

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Plans, forecasts, develops, and/or approves budgets
– Typically has final signature authority for business unit

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that may have a significant impact on multiple units and/or the University
– Regularly develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve the most difficult problems
– Creates an environment that encourages imaginative solutions to problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined and may be frequently changing
– Sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Oversees completed work of others and is accountable for unit results
– Delegates advanced tasks to others and provides guidance to team members

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– May represent the University externally
– Collaborates closely with team members and other leaders across the University
– Communicates a compelling vision that inspires and motivates others

• Comp Grade – 15
• Minimum – $109,300.00
• MidPoint – $136,600.00
• Maximum – $164,000.00