Job ID 12415 Location Case Main Campus Full/Part Time Full-Time Regular/Temporary Regular Job Description POSITION OBJECTIVE Working with a high degree of independence, provide overall administrative management and coordination of a variety of business-related functions-finance, budget, and grant administration for the OMEGA Project. This project spans 4 CWRU schools and 10 external collaborators as well as includes participation from university offices across the campus. This high-profile project is very deadline driven and a manager is responsible for ensuring the efficient workflow of the project including ensuring that regular reporting requirements of the funding agency are satisfied. The OMEGA manager will be responsible for the day-to-day monitoring of financial logistics and operations of the project, including grant/ contract management (including pre-award and post-award management including sub-contractors, regular forecasts and recap as appropriate), progress reports (quarterly, half-yearly, annually as appropriate), project milestones and statements of work (SOWs), and oversight of research personnel and equipment logistics associated with the OMEGA project. This position is unique to the OMEGA project and reports directly to the Executive Director of OMEGA and will involve regular contact with the Principal Investigator. OMEGA (Orchestrating Multifaceted Engineering for Growing Artificial Joints) is a megaproject that involves more than a dozen academic institutions, companies, and consulting entities around the nation. The consortium has a significant footprint in Northeastern Ohio by way of inclusion of eleven faculty members from Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veteran's Administration Medical Center. OMEGA's mission is to reduce an artificial knee joint concept to practice through prototyping, good laboratory practice testing, FDA approvals, good manufacturing practice and Phase I clinical trial over five years. Developmental efforts also include establishment of the intellectual property and commercialization foundations for transitioning the concept as a clinical product while keeping the equitable translation of the technology. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 1. Serve as the financial and business operations manager for the OMEGA program. Responsible for management of all financial and administrative aspects of the project. Responsibilities include oversight and forecasting for all project account and sub-accounts. Review spending patterns to project future trends and prepare long-range operational forecasts and cash flow analysis. Guarantee compliance with all funding agency and university directives by reviewing all speed types in assigned departments monthly to monitor and verify expenditures. Approve purchases. Work closely with Purchasing and T&Eprofessionals to ensure grants do not exceed funding, and purchases do not occur after the end date. Request preliminary speed types or petitions to keep active research projects open during renewal periods to keep correcting journals to a minimum. Be the main contact and primary administrator to departmental staff, faculty and chairs for all things related to funded projects. Delegate tasks to other employees as needed and follow up with colleagues, departmental staff and faculty to assure tasks are completed in a timely manner. Create efficiencies to improve accuracy. (25%) 2. Oversee the fiscal management of operational and research budgets, includes accounts payable, iLab billing and grant/contract expenditures. Monitor and evaluate project spending. Draft and negotiate budgets for new grants and sponsored research. Oversee the execution of contracts and budgets. Prepare and distribute the financial reporting to requesting agencies. (25%) 3. Use independent judgment and present the school's position as it re