Jobs at Colorado School of Mines

Leads post-award research administration, supervising accounting and compliance staff while overseeing sponsored-project financial management, reporting, reconciliations, billing, cash flow, audits, indirect cost recovery, and regulatory compliance. Develops policies, controls, training, metrics, and process improvements; maintains research and financial systems; ensures data integrity; and advises faculty, administrators, sponsors, and campus leadership on complex accounting and grant-management issues.

The Assistant Dean leads undergraduate curriculum strategy, academic initiatives, accreditation support, policy implementation, and cross-campus partnerships. Responsibilities include analyzing curricular pathways and student progression, coordinating communication and professional-practice initiatives, supporting ABET and HLC accreditation, facilitating faculty and stakeholder engagement, developing assessment measures, resolving implementation barriers, and advising the Dean on strategic and operational priorities.

Leads a university research contracts team, overseeing sponsored research, intellectual property agreements, subcontracts, negotiations, regulatory compliance, and agreement administration. Manages 4–8 employees, advises faculty and administrators, interprets federal and state regulations, develops policies and training, maintains contract data systems, and drives process improvements. The role requires substantial research administration contracting, supervision, technology transfer, and intellectual property negotiation experience.

Manages complex sponsored research proposal submissions, ensuring compliance with sponsor, federal, state, and institutional requirements. Develops and reviews budgets, coordinates subrecipients, negotiates costs, maintains proposal data, and tracks approvals. Advises and trains faculty and staff, supports proposal analysts, communicates with sponsors, and leads process-improvement efforts. Requires on-campus presence in Golden, Colorado at least twice weekly.

Leads the Research Accounting team and oversees sponsored award financial administration, including award setup, budget and expense monitoring, financial and non-financial reporting, reconciliations, closeout, quality control, and regulatory compliance. Supervises five direct reports, develops procedures and training, analyzes financial data, resolves discrepancies, and advises faculty, staff, sponsors, and university leadership on research accounting matters.

Manage full employee lifecycle and payroll data in Workday, ensuring compliance, accurate recordkeeping, audits (including 1042-S), process improvements, metrics, and training/support for campus stakeholders.