Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Job Vacancy in Academy of Medical Educators: Senior Programs Analyst

The Academy of Medical Educators is a school-wide honors and service organization dedicated to promoting and rewarding teaching excellence, supporting educators, fostering curricular innovation, and encouraging research in medical education. With 87 Academy members from 20 different academic departments, our program creates an interdepartmental community of educators across the School of Medicine.

Under the general supervision of the Academy manager, the incumbent leads a range of high-level and high-profile projects that impact faculty and staff across the school. The incumbent is expected to independently formulate innovative solutions and creative approaches to a range of complex administrative projects, interacting professionally with constituents and stakeholders school-wide and nationally and collaborating closely with Academy members to accomplish programmatic goals. Using well-developed program management and analysis skills, this position is independently responsible for: 1) administering all aspects of a competitive, peer-reviewed, school-wide intramural grants program, funding up to $150,000 per year in faculty-led curricular projects; 2) managing a rigorous annual membership application process involving SOM faculty at all levels and external evaluators from across the country; 3) implementing and coordinating the scientific program development for an annual, school-wide educational research symposium, interacting effectively and seamlessly with students, residents, faculty and administrators school-wide. Depending on workload, may lead or serve as a member of the event management team for this event; 4) handling related communications and contributing to development and dissemination of collateral materials; 5) serving as primary financial analyst, tracking project expenditures, performing monthly reconciliation and SAS115 verification, producing budget status reports for management consumption, and reviewing and supervising financial transactions performed by Analyst I; 6) serving as technology specialist, identifying, recommending and implementing technological tools to streamline and refine systems and processes; 7) cross-training on essential tasks in order to provide backup to other team members and ensure continuity of service to Academy leadership, members and departments; and perform other duties as assigned. Position details on UCSF HRWebsite: Req No. 37352