Career Paths

Research Administration is a profession that is often difficult to explain – we support the research at MIT, and are often involved in:

Proposal Development – finding and interpreting opportunities and submission guidelines
Budgeting and Planning – direct and indirect costs, forecasting, cost sharing, under-recovery, salary limits
Communication – proactive and effective, coordinating efforts, networking with colleagues, explaining processes and procedures
Project Management – set and manage priorities, manage tasks and timelines, coordinate dependencies
Financial Management – payroll distributions, monitor and reconcile charges, budget management, subaward management, closeouts
Award Administration – policy interpretation
Compliance – managing processes for conflicts of interest, animal care, human subjects, environmental health and safety
Student Development
Systems Development – systems that support research administration

“Big diversity in the type of work done, opportunities to learn new things”
“Helping people, faculty and researchers, who dream up these great ideas”
“Seeing inventions from MIT used all over the world and connecting to that personally (how we helped)”
“Great to work with students”
“Access to a vast pool of talented individuals; an army of people that will help answer questions”