Shall be responsible to provide the following administrative support to the faculty and students:
Pre-Award Support:
- Identify government and industry funding opportunities and circulate them to relevant faculty/researchers.
- Support in proposal preparation, budget creation, and submission through appropriate channels.
- Coordinate institutional approvals and ensure compliance with sponsor guidelines and deadlines.
Post-Award Management:
- Facilitate project initiation, fund disbursement, and maintain project documentation.
- Monitor project progress, prepare interim and final reports, and track deliverables.
- Coordinate financial reconciliations, fund utilization tracking and audit readiness in collaboration with the finance office.
Research Administration & Oversight:
- Coordinate monthly research review meetings, prepare agenda and MOMs, and follow up on action items.
- Support the internal review process for research proposals, hiring of research scholars, ethics clearances, and progress evaluations.
- Assist in organizing research conferences, seminars, communications, and reporting.
- Maintain databases of funded projects, submission status, deadlines, and outcome metrics.
- Prepare periodic reports, budget utilization, dashboards, and research summaries for internal and external stakeholders.
Innovation & Incubation Support:
- Facilitate institutional efforts in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship, including support for faculty/startup-led incubation activities.
- Coordinate with the incubation centre, faculty innovators, and student teams to track and document innovation outcomes.
- Assist in preparing proposals and documents for innovation grants and startup support schemes.
- Maintain records of incubated ventures, patents filed, products developed, and technology transfers.
Recognitions & Approvals:
- Lead efforts to obtain and maintain key institutional recognitions and approvals, (for ex. UGC/AICTE compliance for research schemes).
- Coordinate submission of applications, renewal documents, and audits for these recognitions.
Capacity Building & Outreach:
- Provide administrative support to Research Committees and Ethics Boards.
- Reach out to organizations to get live-projects, internships for the Research & Academic team.
- Maintain communication with funding agencies for clarifications, amendments, or compliance matters.
Perform other additional responsibilities as requested from time to time.
