General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Flexible Hybrid

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Posted Date

06/24/2026

Salary Range: $74445 - 152460 Annually

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

31565

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine is seeking a Research Administrator to join its dynamic research administration team supporting a diverse and growing portfolio of sponsored research. In this role, you will play a key part in advancing innovative, investigator-led science by supporting faculty through the full lifecycle of their researchawards, from proposal development and submission through award setup, post-award management, and closeout.

This position offers the opportunity to work on a range of moderately complex research proposals, including single-investigator NIH submissions, with responsibility for reviewing and analyzing key financial components such as budgets, effort commitments, salaries, and project expenditures. You will be part of a collaborative support model that includes partnership with a Senior Research Administrator, providing shared expertise and coordinated portfolio management for each PI. .

Annual Range: $70,900-$145,200

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or equivalent combination of education and experience
• High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 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.
• Close attention to detail in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel.
• Strong writing skills in a variety of styles to draft persuasive text for a variety of audiences while ensuring adherence to funding sponsor's guidelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge of effective grant funding processes, procedures and techniques
• Ability to perform complex financial analysis and customized reporting

Preferred:

• Strong organization skills, ability to prioritize job functions, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously with multiple proposal submission systems. Preferred
• Experience preparing, managing, and projecting budgets. Preferred
• Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and financial files effectively.
• 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.
• 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.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.