Assistant Manager - Grants Administration, Emergency Medicine

Assistant Manager - Grants Administration, Emergency Medicine

Entity            Medical College

Location        Karachi, Pakistan

Introduction    Aga Khan University chartered in 1983 as Pakistan's first private international university, is committed to the provision of education, research, and health care of international standards relevant to Pakistan and the region. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospital provides state-of-the-art clinical facilities and well-equipped diagnostic services. The University currently has teaching sites in Pakistan, East Africa, the United Kingdom, and Afghanistan, and is a major component of Aga Khan Development Network.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

The Department of Emergency Medicine was established in 2008 and since then, the department has continued to grow. The move towards an academic entity from a purely service-based unit reflected the growth in the size and importance of Emergency Medicine as a specialty in Pakistan and the region. Department of Emergency have been awarded the National Institutes of Health’s D43 Grant. The goal of this grant program “AKU Trauma injury research training Program (AKU-TIRTP)” is to strengthen trauma and injury research capacity across the different countries and build a strong cross-regional model of collaboration. The programme will train several PhD researchers and large number of trainees through a series of workshops and online courses, and it will support contextually relevant research in care of the injured with a focus on emergencies, disasters and conflict.

This is a grant-funded contractual position.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

• develop and monitor annual budget of research grants
• liaise with finance department and funding agency for budgetary approval, invoice processing and payment related matters
• coordinate grant checklist process and liaise with various departments of AKU for checklist approval
• ensure grant proposal and subcontracts’ timely renewal and completed activities’ orderly closeout.
• assist principal investigator in submission of intramural and extramural grant application ensuring compliance of university and funding agencies’ policies
• maintain record of all departmental grant awards
• coordinate activities and monitor deliverables of assigned project
• support in Internal and external Audit of the grants
• ensure timely and proper provision of necessary supplies as per the requirements of research projects and maintain proper records of the same
• review Monthly GL, JC Data and GVR.

Requirements

You should have:

• master’s degree from a reputed university
• at least 3 years of relevant experience in a recognized organization
• knowledge and ability to interpret and apply sponsor, institutional and departmental policies
• experience of managing teams and people
• excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.