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What Is Research Administration?
Research Administration is a profession that is often difficult to explain – we support the research at MIT, and are often involved in:
- Proposal Development – finding and interpreting opportunities and submission guidelines
- Budgeting and Planning – direct and indirect costs, forecasting, cost sharing, under-recovery, salary limits
- Communication – proactive and effective, coordinating efforts, networking with colleagues, explaining processes and procedures
- Project Management – set and manage priorities, manage tasks and timelines, coordinate dependencies
- Financial Management – payroll distributions, monitor and reconcile charges, budget management, subaward management, closeouts
- Award Administration – policy interpretation
- Compliance – managing processes for conflicts of interest, animal care, human subjects, environmental health and safety
- Student Development
- Systems Development – systems that support research administration
Why be a Research Administrator at MIT?
- “Big diversity in the type of work done, opportunities to learn new things”
- “Helping people, faculty and researchers, who dream up these great ideas”
- “Seeing inventions from MIT used all over the world and connecting to that personally (how we helped)”
- “Great to work with students”
- “Access to a vast pool of talented individuals; an army of people that will help answer questions”
Some Of The Research Administration Positions At MIT:
- Administrative Assistants
- Administrative Officers
- Contract Administrators
- Contract Specialists
- Financial Administrators
- Financial Analysts
- Financial Assistants
- Financial Officers
- Grants Development Officer
- Project Coordinators
- Project Managers
- Subaward Administrators
- Strategic Transaction Officers