Senior Research Consultant Department of Surgery

Job ID59620 Location Columbia Full/Part TimeFull-Time Hiring Department Department of Surgery Job Description The Department of Surgery at the University of Missouri has an opportunity for a new Senior Research Consultant. This position will focus on multi-disciplinary institutional grants and work intensively with faculty on their research programs, especially NIH to help improve the department and school's national ranking and to support AAU-relevant applications. The Senior Research Consultant works with faculty investigators in a wide variety of disciplines from the Department of Surgery, other School of Medicine Departments, MU colleges and the VA. Including basic scientists, clinician scientists, analysts, and population health researchers. Job Duties are, yet not limited to:

• Advise and assist Department of Surgery, and other researcher collaborators to conceptualize effective strategies to support the research endeavor as part of the department and school's overall mission, and to identify which large scale, multi-disciplinary proposals to pursue to further that mission.

Advise and assist Department of Surgery Researchers and other PIs in development and submission of these highly complex proposals.

• Advise and assist faculty in submitting proposals that are responsive to funding opportunity announcements. May include completing forms, formatting documents, developing budgets, assembling text for non-technical documents, drafting letters of support, reading and editing technical text for responsiveness to review criteria and logical structure and writing style.
• Research, advise and assist faculty in identifying funding opportunities and planning research development strategies. This may include editing highly technical research manuscripts for peer-reviewed publications that can help to further the faculty member's research goals.
• Identify and implement strategies to support School of Medicine faculty in a constantly changing extramural funding landscape.

Advise and assist faculty in incorporating funders' organizational, policy and guideline changes into their research development strategies. Includes responsibilities such as NIH Public Access Policy compliance monitoring and training, and understanding Human Subjects Research (and animal study) requirements for increasing numbers of faculty conducting translational research.

• Manage post-award activities for the Department including tracking expenditures, effort and budget variances while also assisting investigators and staff to maintain compliance and sponsor expectations. Prepare monthly reporting to present to management and investigators.
• Manage and oversee departmental Promotion and Tenure applications, and update MyVITA for all faculty. Follow and organize all departmental research matrix.
• Other duties as assigned Shift Monday
• Friday 8:00 a.m.
• 5:00 p.

m. Minimum Qualifications A Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, and at least 5 years of experience from which comparable knowledge and skills can be acquired is necessary. Anticipated Hiring Range

Salary Range:

$70,512.00

• $137,696.

00 annually

Grade:

GGS

• 012

University Title:

RESEARCH CONSULTANT SR

Internal applicants can determine their university title by accessing the Talent Profile tile in myHR. Application Materials In addition to the Online Application, please provide Resume. Benefit Eligibility This position is eligible for University benefits. As part of your total compensation, the University offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision plans, retirement, paid time off, short

• and long-term disability, paid parental leave, paid caregiver leave, and educational fee discounts for all four UM System campuses.

For additional information on University benefits, please visit the Faculty & Staff Benefits website at https://www.umsystem.edu/totalrewards/benefits.