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Position overview

Responsible for providing complex technical support for daily financial operations by performing a variety of tasks following policies and procedures. In addition to processing a variety of financial transactions and maintaining records, the position compiles data and generates routine and ad hoc financial reports.

Job duties

Core duties (estimated effort: 90%):

• Preparing and reviewing, in collaboration with PIs, proposal budgets to accurately reflect the effort and resource commitments, ensuring all budgeted costs are allowable, allocable, reasonable, and consistent.
• Providing guidance and feedback on proposal required materials as they relate to sponsor guidelines and university policies.
• Advising PIs and other research staff on personnel costs, facilities and administrative costs, subcontracts, and service agreements.
• Assisting in implementing institute policies and procedures to facilitate and streamline the proposal submission process within IMCI, including final assembly of proposals and budgets to meet sponsor submission formats and deadlines.
• Providing guidance to PIs, subcontracting institutions or entities, and/or any other collaborators regarding the funding opportunity and requirements for proposal submissions.
• Providing training and one-on-one support to faculty, research personnel, and staff as needed on tools related to proposal preparation (VERAS, Grants.Gov, etc).
• Purchasing identified goods and services.
• Submitting invoices and receipts for payment.
• Processing purchasing card and travel claims, and reimbursements.
• Filing and maintaining unit-level finance documents.
• Developing, compiling, and summarizing data for routine reports and ad hoc financial management reports.
• Researching and bringing discrepancies or errors to the Program Manager attention for corrective action.
• Providing assistance to departments on questions related to invoices, receipts, financial reports and other transactions.
• Researching, analyzing, and make recommendations for management decision making.

Supplemental duties (estimated effort: 10%):

• Establishing and maintaining respectful, cooperative, and productive work relationships with researchers, team members, supervisors, OSP and other members of the university community.
• Striving to efficiently, timely and consistently meet the workplace objectives in support of the university’s research mission by demonstrating accuracy and thoroughness.
• Attending conferences and/or training to improve technical and professional development including meetings/trainings hosted by the Office of Sponsored Programs.

Additional information

• Apply through the University of Idaho Careers page.
• In your application, please address all the minimum requirements in the letter of qualification. Preferential review of applicants to begin on Nov. 19, 2025.

Position overview

The position advises assigned college or unit administrative leadership about financial matters, oversees and advises the leadership team about financial and administrative decisions affecting their units. This position is responsible for ensuring the fiscal integrity of all general education, donation, revenue, grant and other budgets, within the specified units, ensuring compliance with all governing federal, state and University of Idaho policies and procedures and for providing the full spectrum of budgeting and administrative requirements for the unit including high-level budget planning and fiscal management.

Job duties

Provide financial management for the division by (estimated effort: 55%):

• Administering appropriated and allocated division funds including state funding, local service, Facilities and Administrative funds and P3 funds.
• Managing division salary dollars, including salary savings, commitments, and expenditures; transferring and tracking funding commitments of the vice president.
• Allocating funds from P3 and internal funds to units based on a formal request process.
• Evaluating and assessing division financial needs and opportunities, making recommendations to the senior associate vice president for new initiatives, improvements, and policies.
• Preparing budget projects, developing, and providing periodical financial reports for the vice president, senior associate vice president and other division administrators.
• Providing fiscal leadership, guidance, and training to division personnel.
• Ensuring appropriate division budget and expenditures through the year and proposed fund balances for meeting year-end fiscal responsibilities.
• Making appropriate fiscal year opening and closing entries.
• Overseeing all financial activity for the division to ensure fiscal integrity.
• Ensuring compliance requirements are met and analyzing division-wide processes and procedures for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Monitoring expenditures for account appropriateness and compliance with UI or sponsor policies and performing random audits of accounts.
• Overseeing, analyzing, and monitoring accounting transactions generated by the division staff.
• Advising and counseling administrators in financial areas; alerting responsible parties to financial discrepancies or problems and ensuring appropriate action is taken; researching, compiling, and analyzing data to assist in budget development projection, cost analysis, and allocation; providing data for a wide variety of reports.
• Reviewing and approving travel pre-authorization requests and expense claims in ChromeRiver.
• Authorizing credit card applications, special checks, and RPR requests.
• Maintaining and applying a strong knowledge of university and applicable state and federal policies and procedures; possessing overall knowledge of grant management support.
• Serving as liaison with University administration for financial issues.

Provide administrative leadership in the financial area by (estimated effort: 35%):

• Managing the workflow of the Fiscal Operations unit; providing leadership, support, direction, and training for administrative and fiscal staff in the units and institutes as their work relates to fiscal processing and grant management; supervising and evaluating staff within the fiscal operations unit.
• Assisting the vice president and senior associate vice president with the annual Change in Employee Compensation (CEC) process for the division.
• Approving Employee Personnel Action forms for permanent and temporary faculty, staff, and student hires.
• Communicating and interacting with division personnel regarding a variety of financial issues to ensure their needs and understanding of processes are being met.
• Interpreting and explaining new and existing University, state and federal policies and procedures.
• Developing and maintaining a division policy and procedure manual for all financial processes and ensuring that all unit employees understand and comply with said manual.
• Maintaining professional knowledge through formal and informal training and by participating in professional organizations and meetings as appropriate.
• Serving as program contact and coordinator for Office of Research and Economic Development trust and internal funded grant programs (e.g. P3).

Contributes to the completion of financial and administrative process in the division by (estimated effort: 5%):

• Providing finance and human resource module training in Banner, Vandalweb, and Argos.
  Coordinating and approving electronic personnel action forms.
• Providing additional day-to-day financial oversight and working on projects as identified by the senior associate vice president.

Contributes to the overall benefit of the University of Idaho by (estimated effort: 5%):

• Providing back up support to financial staff as they provide comprehensive fiscal and grants management support to a portfolio of initiatives and investigators
• Serving on appropriate university committees.

Additional information

• Apply through the University of Idaho Careers page.
• In your application, please address all the minimum requirements in the Letter of Qualification. Preferential review of applicants to begin on Nov. 7, 2025.

Position overview

The Postdoctoral Research Associate selected for this position will work as a member of an interdisciplinary team led by Dr. Colin Xu on Department of Defense (DoD)-funded research project involving the use of statistical and machine learning methods for predicting mental health outcomes of anxiety, depression and PTSD. There will be potential opportunities for methodological and/or software development and the integration of machine learning into the project.

Job duties

Conduct research (estimated effort: 70%):

• Engaging in research projects involving statistical and predictive modeling of mental health and psychiatric outcomes
• Independently collecting, cleaning, analyzing and interpreting data relevant to ongoing research projects
• Working collaborative to integrate the results of the research
• Keeping up-to-date research notebooks and computer files of standard protocols

Present research results (estimated effort: 20%):

• Compiling and reporting results, preparing figures and tables that summarize data and results
• Writing manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals
• Presenting work to collaborators, IMCI Working Groups and Brown Bag Lunch
• Presenting results in the form of talks or posters at regional, national and international conferences

Collaborative activities such as (estimated effort: 10%):

• Participating regularly in IMCI activities including seminars, workshops, and Brown Bag lunches
• Assisting in supervising and training undergraduate and graduate students engaged in projects on which postdoc participates
• Initiating new interdisciplinary collaborations at the university.

Additional information

• Apply through the University of Idaho Careers page.
• In your application, please address all the minimum requirements in the letter of qualification. Preferential review of applicants to begin on Sept. 23, 2025.

Position overview

The Postdoctoral Research Associate selected for this position will work as a member of an interdisciplinary team on research involving the use of statistical and machine learning methods for the development of Immune Digital Twins. There will be potential opportunities for methodological and/or software development, as well as the integration of machine learning into the project, depending on the candidate’s interests.

Job duties

Conduct research (estimated effort: 70%):

• Engaging in assigned model-based collaborative research projects
• Participating in the Working Group associated with each project
• Independently collecting, analyzing and interpreting data relevant to each project
• Working collaboratively to integrate the results of the research
• Keeping up-to-date research notebooks and computer files of standard protocols

Present research results (estimated effort: 20%):

• Compiling and reporting findings, prepare figures and tables that summarize data and results
• Writing manuscripts for publication peer-reviewed journals
• Presenting work in Working Groups and Brown Bag Lunch
• Presenting results in the form of talks or posters at regional, national and international conferences

Collaborative activities such as (estimated effort: 10%):

• Participating regularly in IMCI activities including seminars, workshops, and Brown Bag lunches
• Assisting in supervising and training undergraduate and graduate students engaged in projects on which postdoc participates
• Initiating new interdisciplinary collaborations at the university

Additional information

• Apply through the University of Idaho Careers page.
• In your application, please address all the minimum requirements in the letter of qualification. Preferential review of applicants to begin on Sept. 23, 2025.

Position overview

The Center for Secure and Dependable Systems at the University of Idaho is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to participate in the National Science Foundation EPSCoR funded Idaho Community-Engaged Resilience for Energy-Water Systems (I-CREWS) project.

The position will predominately work with the I-CREWS modeling and characterize teams to collate, assess and generate physical models and integrate measurement data to produce datasets in support of the ICREWS project. These datasets will include physical and social science datasets related to energy and water resilience to stressors at regional and local scales. This individual will also work with the I-CREWS alternative futures team to generate data for use assessing energy-water resilience in future scenarios. The individual will collaboratively work with the modeling, alternative futures team and Energy Water Data Hub, as well as other I-CREWS project personnel. This individual will also work collaboratively to support workforce development goals in the I-CREWS project through the development of instructional materials for audiences such as students, other project team members and the public.

Job duties

Research (estimated effort: 70%):

• The position will predominately work with the project I-CREWS modeling and characterize teams develop energy-water system datasets generated through a combination of physical models and historical measurement of energy and water systems in that and region. These datasets will also include physical and social science datasets related to energy and water resilience to stressors at regional and local scales. This individual will also work with the I-CREWS alternative futures team to generate data for use in low-fidelity virtual reality environments.

Workforce development (estimated effort: 25%):

• This position will develop online training materials on how to access, analyze and use spatial datasets to describe energy and water systems. These modules would be integrated within courses offered by the University of Idaho Certificate in Environmental Education and Science Communication and the online Masters in Geographic Information Science, as well as courses broadly offered by I-CREWS partner institutions.

Instruction (estimated effort: 5%):

• Assist in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students conducting research related to interactions between energy and water systems, especially characterizing and modeling energy-water systems and assessing datasets for machine learning applications.

Requirements

Education

• Ph.D. in electrical engineering or related field with a power emphasis with a strong focus on energy-water modeling

Experience

• Experience in using power system modeling and simulation tools

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in publishing in peer-reviewed literature
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills
• Experience in communication to scientific audiences
• Experience in risk and resilience research related to energy or water systems
• Interest in developing instructional summary materials for audiences such as students, other project team members and the public
• Interest in working in a large collaborative team
• Proficient in both written and spoken English

Physical requirements

• None

Additional information

• Apply through the University of Idaho Careers page.
• In your application, please address all the minimum requirements in the letter of qualification. Preferential review of applicants to begin on April 29, 2025.