Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, with a strong accountability to the Senior Vice President for Research, the Director, Sponsored Research Administration (SRA) leads the three divisions that comprise the SRA office - Pre-award, Post-award, and Accounting—in support of approximately $110M in research expenditures.
The Director leads a team of approximately 30 at the Bar Harbor and Farmington sites and provides information and counsel to the faculty and research staff on research program management and planning. The Director also advises JAX senior leadership on strategic, administrative, financial, and resource allocation issues related to sponsored research. In addition, the Director oversees the professional development of department staff members.
Day-to-day functions include oversight of submission of grant proposals, including the coordination of all scientific and administrative reviews; administrative management of institutional grants; administration of all pre-award and post-award activities including budget oversight of grants; oversight of all sponsored technical reporting, accounting and relevant compliance requirements (in conjunction with the Corporate Controller’s office); and coordination of financial analytic support to faculty and senior management.
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is making a new future of human health and personalized medicine possible —using an individual’s unique genomic makeup to predict, treat and even prevent disease. Founded in 1929, JAX is an independent, 501(c)3 nonprofit biomedical research institution that seeks to decipher the biological and genomic causes of human disease. Their research breakthroughs have helped form the foundation of modern medicine. Organ and bone marrow transplants, stem cell therapies, and in vitro fertilization all have a foundation in JAX research.
Today, JAX is integrating mouse genetics and human genomics to decipher the genetic and molecular causes of human health and disease. JAX uniquely empowers the efforts of the global biomedical research community. They develop and share research, innovative tools and solutions, ever‑expanding data resources, more than 11,000 specialized mouse models and services, and a suite of comprehensive educational programs to accelerate basic scientific research and drug discovery across the globe.
JAX employs more than 2,400 employees and operates locations in three states, and in China. The main 43-acre campus in Bar Harbor, Maine is nestled between the Gulf of Maine and the mountains of Acadia National Park. Scientists here research the genetic causes of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, glaucoma and many other diseases and conditions, using the mouse as a model. JAX Genomic Medicine sits on a 17-acre site adjacent to UConn Health, in Farmington. Scientists here investigate how each piece of the genome contributes to health and disease and how our genomes can guide personalized medical care.
JAX employees work in a collaborative, value-driven, and team-based environment where the focus is on advancing science and improving patients’ lives. Researchers apply genetics to increase the understanding of human disease and advance treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging, and heart disease. JAX was voted among the top 15 “Best Places to Work in Academia” in the United States in a poll conducted by The Scientist magazine in 2011. Most importantly, every position contributes to JAX’s mission of discovering precise genomic solutions for human disease and empowering the global biomedical community in our shared quest to improve human health.
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The Jackson Laboratory has engaged Opus Partners to support the recruitment of this position. Katie Dean, Associate Partner, and Marisea Rivera, Senior Associate, are leading the search. Inquiries, applications and nominations should be sent by email to Katie (katie.dean@opuspartners.net ).
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