The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is seeking an Associate Director, Research Support to provide guidance, support, and programming to Booth non-Center research staff, directly support faculty, and assist in the planning and execution of the Expanding Discovery in Economics+ program.
Requirements
- Demonstrated proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and the ability to quickly learn University-based systems.
Responsibilities
- Provides faculty with SSRN administrative support, including posting papers to Booth’s SSRN working paper series.
- Furthers the faculty research mission by providing technical and administrative support for research. Work will vary by faculty-member supported, but may include data ingestion and cleaning, manuscript editing, submitting papers to journals, RA time management, grant management, and literature reviews.
- Manages day-to-day operation of faculty group, primarily in the areas of financial and support services management.
- Oversees day-to-day financial processes, payment of invoices, and processing of reimbursements.
- May develop financial reporting for grants.
- Creates, edits, and maintains class web pages and faculty personal web pages.
- Plans, develops, analyzes and manages budget, including developing multi-year budget forecasts.
Other
- Guides and supports faculty as they recruit, hire, and onboard research staff.
- Works closely with faculty managing research staff to ensure they are managing staff effectively, and that their research needs have been met.
- Maintains existing content and creates new content for the Chicago Booth research staff websites.
- Designs and executes programming for research staff.
- Designs and executes retention and engagement programming for Expanding Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+) alumni, including matching alumni to academic advising and research opportunities.
- Supports five faculty as described below.
- Furthers the faculty mission of teaching through the creation and preparation of course materials and websites.
- Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
- Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
- Prior experience in higher education or nonprofit setting.
- Understanding of academia and higher education in research and teaching environment.
- Understanding of student academic needs.
- Introductory experience with financial budgeting and management.
- Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills, as well as organizational skills.
- Work independently with little supervision; possess a self-motivated disposition; identify opportunities for improvement and recommend effective changes, all while achieving key objectives resulting in desired outcomes.
- Excellent management, analytical, and administrative skills.
- Handle multiple detailed tasks/projects simultaneously and meet strict deadlines with frequent interruptions.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively and diplomatically with colleagues, as well as with students, faculty, and corporate contacts in a multitude of communication methods including in-person, email, and phone.
- Professional demeanor, including tact, discretion, and a customer service-oriented approach.
- This position is currently expected to work a minimum three days per week in the office.
