Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Position Summary
The role of the Sr. Business Director is to oversee accounting, grant and finance operations for the Academic Medical Departments in the Medical Center. The Sr. Business Director is responsible for overseeing the pre-award and post-award process for grants management, monitoring and evaluating monthly budget activity, and ensuring departments are adhering to Institutional policies and procedures.
The Sr. Business Director oversees the management of several hundred cost centers and over 100 faculty.

As a successful candidate, you will:
Human Resources
• Directly supervise business managers. Indirectly supervise administrative analysts and clerical staff through business managers. Administer performance evaluations. Develop performance improvement strategies and refer to HR as appropriate Coordinate required components of employee recruitment. Manage job and status changes within organizational guidelines. Assists with visa applications. Serves as liaison with area supervisors. Ensure staff has appropriate knowledge and skill to process and manage grants, including providing periodic training either directly or arrange for training from others.
Financial Management
• Develop, prepare and manage institution cost centers for all grants and discretionary monies including areas such as expenditure control, revenue monitoring and invoicing.
• Develops long-range financial plans, analyses, and recommends adjustments where appropriate. Financial owner and signer on all grants and discretionary accounts in the departments managed.
Grant Management
• Through Business Managers, provide leadership and oversight of pre- and post- grant process and grant activity. Work with Business Managers, Department Chair and PIs to develop federal grant proposals. Coordinate activities with Office of Sponsored Research and other collaborators
• Manages spending on grants so that all expenditures are appropriate and allowable within the grant budget and year end. Reviews, approves and tracks any cost sharing commitments, provides oversight and guidance on grant budget spending and provides spending projects to PIs as needed, understand and enforces COH research compliance policies for research subject’s use, conflict of interest disclosure, biosafety and effort certification, and ensures agency requirements, deadlines and internal schedules for tracking proposal development and responses are communicated.
Support Services
• Establishes and maintains close working relationship with central departments. Coaches and mentors new managers. Serves on committees as requested including institutional ERP committee. Develops and maintains effective communication program with the unit including timely reciprocal exchange of information between the Chair, faculty and staff. Meet with faculty periodically to review financial status of cost centers.
Strategic Planning
• Participates in strategic planning along with other management staff. Provides financial information and analysis to operating managers to assist in the development of proposals for various business program projects.
Recruitment
• Evaluates grants for transferability and complexity for faculty recruitment. Facilitates the transfer of grants during onboarding of new faculty.
Policy Implementation
• Develops, oversees and implements internal policies and procedures covering financial and research processes. Ensures department compliance with internal and external compliance program.
Physician Accountability
• Monitors and analyzes research activity. Reports to Chair and VP of Professional Services research activity. Provides insight during TAR evaluation related to faculty productivity
Professional Development
• Establishes and maintains appropriate network of professional contacts relevant to grant management. Actively participates in Academic Research Operations organization.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related field
• 5-8 years of business management experience in an academic research or healthcare environment.
• 5 years of progressively responsible management experience. Demonstrated experience in budget development, grant management and space planning.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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