In this dynamic role, you will serve as a key partner by coordinating research activities, managing program operations, facilitating multidisciplinary collaborations, and supporting grant-funded initiatives. You will help bring people together to advance scientific discovery by coordinating participant engagement, tracking project milestones, maintaining program documentation, and supporting data collection and analysis efforts for informal and formal reporting. You will serve as a central hub for scheduling coordination and logistics, ensuring seamless alignment of meetings, events, travel, and programmatic activities across leadership, stakeholders, and research initiatives including internal and external collaborators. You will support the development of high-impact grant proposals and research protocols, assisting in their development and assembly while ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations while advancing innovative initiatives.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys building relationships, managing complex projects, improving processes, and contributing to work that has a meaningful impact on research, education, and the future of cancer care. The successful candidate will bring a high level of responsiveness and rapid engagement, thriving in a fast-paced environment while leveraging strong organizational and communication skills to collaborate across disciplines to support innovative programs and initiatives.

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Coordinates the daily activities and contracts related to one or more research program(s)
• Serves as a unit liaison and subject matter expert among internal and external stakeholder groups, collaborates across disciplines and functional areas, provides program information, and promotes the accomplishments and developments of scholars and research initiatives
• Assists in the development, coordination, and facilitation of trainings and workshops for internal and external audiences to disseminate research program developments and information
• Plans, develops, and implements processes and protocols to support research aims
• Monitors program budget(s) and approves unit expenditures
• Develops policies, procedures, and institutional agreements on behalf of the program