Research Projects Specialist or Research Projects Coordinator - Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois System
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- Location
- Urbana, United States
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 13
- 7 days ago
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University of Illinois System
E-learning · 2 to 10 employees
What you'll do
- Support sponsored research projects through workplan, budget, expenditure and incentive reviews, and coordinate with researchers, partners and sponsors.
- Track project metrics, prepare reports, and organize technical meetings.
Key skills
project management softwaredatabases
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Duties & ResponsibilitiesSupport ICT’s sponsored research process of active projects, including workplan and budget reviews submitted by researchers, outsourcing to industry and university partners, requests for University accounts to ensure compliance with the research objectives, and act as a liaison between the University and project sponsors.
Assists in reviewing expenditures and reviewing and processing incentive payments to ensure compliance with sponsor, federal, and University policies.
Utilize project management software and databases to track and analyze project tasks, performance metrics, and accomplishments over time.
Provides guidance and assists in the establishment of a grant funded incentive program.
Assists with preparing tables, charts and progress reports for metric reporting and handles a variety of sensitive and confidential assignments and projects.
Organize and actively participates in technical meetings, prepares technical research discussion summaries and communicates meeting objectives and outcomes to PIs and sponsors. Travel as needed, mostly during business hours.
Assumes additional appropriate related research project duties to further the mission of ICT and the department.