Required:

• At least 5 years of experience in public or community health research and at least 3 years experience supervising and managing a comparable department or team.
• Expertise in the English language to compose progress reports to the funding agencies, correspondence to various people (including agencies, potential applicants, interests parties); and editing ability to review these reports, correspondences, and articles/chapters submitted for publication. 
• Expertise in knowledge of requirements and procedures involved in grant proposal, abstract and journal article submission to different journals, private organizations, and governmental agencies. 
• High proficiency in in financial management, accounting and bookkeeping principles to accept primary responsibility for managing grants, to direct expenditures, produce quarterly financial reports, and to provide budget projections to the principal investigator.  
• High proficiency with University accounting and record-keeping systems to process multiple accounting transactions including: award transmittals; payroll (academic and staff); consultant agreements; subcontracts, honoraria; personal services contract agreements; and general accounting (travel, expense transfers, purchase orders, supplies, check requests, blankets, etc.). 
• Interpersonal skills to interact effectively and diplomatically with faculty members from a variety of departments at UCLA, and researchers and staff at external organizations.
• Exceptional ability to work independently; make decisions; hire and supervise staff; conduct performance evaluations; counsel staff to resolve employee relations; 
• Expertise with: word processing and desktop publishing programs; graphics programs; spreadsheet programs; database management programs; statistical packages; 
• Exceptional skills in problem solving to include gathering and analyzing information to determine best solutions to problems
• Expertise in the IRB, including preparation and submission of applications. Must be fluent in current policies relating to human subjects in research.
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• Familiarity with organization of multi-center research studies. 

Preferred:

• Masters, Ph.D, ScD, in Public Health or other related field