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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USAOnsite or Remote Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date 09/11/2026
Salary Range: $74445 - 152460 Annually
Employment Type 2 - Staff: Career
Duration Indefinite
Job # 32835
Primary Duties and ResponsibilitiesPress space or enter keys to toggle section visibility
The Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology is seeking a Research Administrator 3 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 research awards, 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: $74,445.00-$152,460.00
Job QualificationsPress space or enter keys to toggle section visibility
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent combination of education and 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.
- 5 Minimum 5 years of research administration experience
- 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
- Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and financial files effectively
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to communicate medical, policy and administrative information in English.
Preferred:
- Strong organization skills, ability to prioritize job functions, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously with multiple proposal submission systems.
- 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.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.
