Job Description

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm. Hybrid Position. Offsite up to 3 days/week, coming onsite as needed. Annual agreement can change with notice
Posted Date
03/17/2026
Salary Range $5908.33 - 12100 Monthly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
29042

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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Life-saving breakthroughs, innovative therapies, and next-generation technologies. Through vision, tenacity, and inspiration, UCLA Health’s world-class researchers are redefining human health and patient care. Join us and live out your passion for discovery while making an incredible difference in the lives of people around the world.

Under the guidance of the Department Chair, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and other departmental leaders and in close collaboration with the research administration team. The incumbent serves as the primary lead for all pre award activities for intra and extramurally funded research proposals. This role provides vital support to Principal Investigators (PIs) by managing proposal preparation, ensuring compliance with sponsor guidelines, and coordinating the submission of high quality, timely applications. This position offers a dynamic opportunity to contribute to the department’s research mission by facilitating successful grant funding and supporting innovative scientific work.

Salary: $5,908.33 - $12,100 monthly

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or related field, or equivalent experience.
  
• High School Diploma/GED or equivalent experience/training.
  
• 5+ years of research administration experience.
  
• Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner.
  
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with various stakeholders.
  
• Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet programmatic and financial needs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of effective grant funding processes, procedures and techniques
  
• Ability to perform complex financial analysis and customized reporting.

Preferred:

• Experience preparing, managing, and projecting budgets.
  
• Mathematical skills for the preparation of complex calculations and forecasts and to identify and resolve complicated financial scenarios.
  
• Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of external sponsors, federal and state sponsors, private foundations, industry sponsors, etc.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.