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Job Description:

• Maintain Section Chiefâ™s calendar. 

• Make travel arrangements for Section Chief to national meetings. 

• Process travel reimbursements for Section Chief.  

• Arrange section meetings with Department of Pediatrics and Chicagoland Childrenâ™s Health Alliance (CCHA). 

• Maintain documentation on section activities with CCHA. 

• Provide programmatic support for Section Chiefâ™s research portfolio. 

• Builds and executes project plans for all Pediatric Survivorship initiatives.  

• Serves as primary point of contact between clients and Pediatric Survivorship team. 

• Provides regular, detailed reports on status of individual projects and entire portfolio to Pediatric Survivorship leadership. 

• Act as the primary liaison dealing with outside agencies. 

• Manage the pre-award obligations related to internal and external funding of the Section. Oversee the formal procedures and paperwork and paperwork related to the application of internal and external funds, including preparation of budgets, agency application forms, and internal routing forms for federal, non-federal, and private organizations.  

• Defines and maintains governance over all projects within the Pediatric Survivorship program. 

• Manages contracts and sponsored research agreements. 

• Provides outreach to funding agencies and foundations to develop future contracts. 

• Provides confidential and high-level administrative support for a leader. Stays informed of activities relating to University programs and initiatives, apprising the leader of issues when deemed necessary. Coordinates information flow from leader's office to University. Relieves leaders of administrative responsibilities. 

• Initiates correspondence and other written materials under own signature or for signature of the leader. Triages emails and telephone calls for action. Resolves routine and complex inquiries. 

• Performs other related work as needed. 

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