at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 53732
Department: MED-Physical Med & Rehab
Salary/Grade: EXS/8
Target hiring range for this position will be between $80,000-$100,000 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Job Summary:
The Department/Center Administrator (DA/CA) is the senior administrative position in a department/center within the Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) & provides thought leadership in reviewing & recommending policy & procedure designed to enhance operational excellence. Ensures the effective, compliant, & efficient daily management of all operational, financial, & business functions in support of the business area's mission & in coordination with central offices such as HR, Budget, Facilities, IT, & Provost. Represents business area on internal & external administrative affairs by recommending alternatives & suggestions.
Specific Responsibilities:
Work Complexity:
- EE uses judgment & an extensive amount of experience to adapt an advanced knowledge of skills, methods, practices, policies & procedures & a moderate degree of innovation, analysis, & reasoning to plan & prioritize work that is primarily project oriented & involves some extremely difficult problems &/or decisions.
- EE interprets policy.
Budget & Financial:
- Serves a primary role in the development & implementation of annual budget including fiscal resource allocation of appropriated, discretionary, endowment & gift revenues.
- Typically involved in the budget management of numerous research grants.
- Responsible for payroll, purchasing, travel & entertainment (T&E) transactions & requesting new chartstrings using NU protocol.
- Prepares faculty salary recovery & summer salary.
- Creates & monitor recharge centers.
- Oversees prompt payment of invoices & related research of errors.
- Monitors open encumbrances & deficit chartstrings.
- Level II approver in NUFS.
- School level approver in HRIS.
- Routinely rev
