Saiqa Anne Qureshi, Phd Mba Email & Phone Number

California, United States

California, United States

• Impact: Integration of new eRA information management system, increase in volume and breadth of grant applications, research development program, limited submission process, AOR
• Research Development and Pre- Award submission leadership, an 3x increase in applications and increased success rate of award acceptance.
• Full grant lifecycle management and leadership including: Research development, strategic planning, professional development, grant proposals, award management, funds draw down, compliance, and audit.
• Policy writing and development, including conflict of interest, technology transfer and authorship.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Impact: Development and Process Improvement in Responsible & Ethical Conduct of Research program, including in person and online teaching, participant tracking.
• Evaluate, direct, and oversee the strategic design, process improvement, and implementation of relevant tools and learning opportunities.
• Ensure campus-wide understanding of the required uses of systems by leveraging knowledge of sponsored projects lifecycle, research policies, business processes, best practices, and administrative systems.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Adjunct Faculty Teaching
• Capstone & Thesis Project
• International Contracting
• International Culture and Communication
• Clinical Trials Research in Healthcare Settings
• Research Ethics

• Editor of the Professional Development Area
• Soliciting articles
• Copy Editing

San Francisco Bay Area

• Projects in Research Administration including Uniform Guidance Audit Expertise
• Evaluation of Academic and Grant Effectiveness
• Expert in Gift Funding of Research in US higher education
• Projects include cost benefit analysis, opportunity cost assessment and building pricing models.
• Training/Presentations o DEIB o Research Administration
• Editing Services: o Thesis (Masters and PhD level including MBA) o Academic and Industry focused publications o Focus on those with English as a Second Language producing a thesis or publication in English.

London Area, United Kingdom

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California, United States

Adjunct Faculty: School of Economics and Business Administration, MBA Program

San Francisco, California, United States

Adjunct Faculty: MBA and International Business MastersData Visualization Leadership

United States

• Training and development modules in human capital, focused on diversity and inclusion including age
• Authorship of a number of articles ranging from human capital to philanthropy in research and operations of research activity

• Impact: Fiscal reporting, annual and quarterly cycle, redesigning regular reporting cycle. Contract negotiation, driving data to decision making.
• Federal Contract negotiation and management including Veteran Affairs (VA).

San Francisco, California, United States

• Impact: Financial Compensation plan for faculty clinician providers, Engagement Committee and Strategy, Grant Applications.
• Leadership in basic sciences and URM placement via private philanthropic program
• Data Validation for Epic implementation, including clinical revenue dashboard
• School Wide Compensation Plan modification and update, including clinical revenue modification
• Chief Administrative Officer- Management of Finance, HR, Research Lab Support and Teaching support, for the basic science department, in the School of Dentistry.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Impact: Process innovation of management of overall research dollars, reduction in aged accounts receivable (items with collections), automation of dunning notice process- reduction of time in manual process by over.
• Functional Director in Contracts & Grants Accounting and Collections post award support, revenue management for $1.6+ billion in awards, $120m+ collections, 600+ sponsors, 3,000+ projects.
• Set KPI for Aged A/R and Provision for Bad Debt- with a methodology that can grow with UCSF
• Financial Reporting to Senior Leadership- redesigned, changing timing, design and process
• Contract Terms and Conditions- re-set to move to a place of preventing collections from occurring and supporting better cash flow.
• Influencing leadership and providing guidance at a University and System Wide level, balancing the needs of multiple constituents and stakeholders.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Impact: Led Operations, Finance and Administration through a period of rapid growth, doubling in size in one year (doubling financial turn over, human resources, physical space), across campus and medical center. Drove.
• Oversight of budget and purchasing, $30m+ annually, long and short term financial planning
• Strategic partnership in people management- People operations leadership including hiring (scoping of role, candidate selection process, 80+ staff, contractors and consultants), onboarding, and performance management.
• Efficient and effective management of deliverables, focused on attention to detail
• Infrastructure leadership and Facilities Management- real estate coordination, leasing, construction management, $100k+ office refurbishment.
• Oversight over communications team, collaboration with external vendors and internal team.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Impact: Financial administrative leadership to set up a philanthropically funded research initiative in partnership with a sponsored research program, with international postdoctoral fellowship, $100m total.
• Financial administrative leadership and operations leadership for a leading health research group, $50m overall budget, financial management and planning, risk, stakeholder management.
• Workflow optimization focused on research subcontracts and purchasing process, $5m+ annually, synthesizing details into salient key points as the scaffolding for deliverable driven contracts.
• Creation of a return on investment (ROI) framework to manage all funded research aims.
• Administrative leadership of a collaborative $10m+ joint program and fellowship across 4 countries.
• Management of a diverse portfolio spanning clinical, basic, bench and lab sciences.

UK

• Assessor for the Certificate in Research Administration- UK, European and Global, at all levels
• Developed, created and taught the Diversity and Equity materials for research administration
• Provides detailed comments on written assignment towards the qualification in a timely manner
• Instructor for Post Award Support CPD training.

La Verne California

• Impact: Developed the strategic plan to apply for sponsored research grant proposals, total value $7.5m.
• Supported development of competitive grant proposals and reviews and coordinated the internal approval process for submission of grant proposals, total $7.5 million.
• Developed strategic plans and policies for advancing research, later implemented by the University to generate $6m.
• Led institution and supported researchers with administrative and financial services for sponsored research pre and post award, from proposal submission to project close out.
• Supported human subjects protection applications to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and maintained related training materials and programs, including on-site workshops, for the responsible conduct of research.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Impact: Redefined Belfast as a destination for research via the creation of the Queen’s University Fellowship Program.
• Set up the Queen’s Fellows programme, recruiting 20 new research fellows including all advertising, programme specification, policy and a £5.4m budget.
• Developing the Institutional Research Strategy and Implementation Plan
• Interpreting and disseminating key policy and information from key external stakeholderssuch as Research Councils, Government and Commercial Partners.
• Wrote consultation responses to key external stakeholders after internal consultation.

• Project managed and co-ordinated a £700,000 EU research project across five countries by developing and managing systems and coordinating EU reporting
• Established and operated the necessary management and administrative arrangementsfor the projects; including measures of achievement for the agreed project deliverables.

• Worked with commercial and academic partners and was responsible for management, communication, and financial reporting between partners.
• Managing a budget of £3 million and 7 staff both academic and professional services.
• Won over £1 million in funding
• Managed the first annual Digital Research Conference, with 150 attendees and a turnover of over £300,000, as well as cross collaborative conferences, workshops and programmes.

• Impact: Generated £450,000, led Executive Education program market analysis determining program format and price point.
• Generated and managed budgets £100,000 to £450,000 for all income generating projects including Continuing Professional Development programmes.
• Designed and gained approval for the first Executive Education Programme, including market analysis of programme to assess competitors and pricing of programme.
• Developed business plans for Continuing Professional Development Programs, created bespoke programs and wrote bids for outside contracts, won bids up to £50,000.
• Produced short and long term business strategy for business related activities.

• Coordinated a University wide impact pilot case study project across a range of disciplines and managed the needs of different stakeholders at Senior management and school levels.
• Managed relationships with corporate partners and built collaborative partnerships with private enterprise ranging from major charities to energy and logistics companies.
• Responsible for creating and managing a student interaction monitoring tool to comply with UKBA regulations.

Certificate, High Impact Learning

*High-impact practices connect learning to life. They are effective because they require students to “devote considerable time and effort.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Activities and Societies: Academic Excellence Scholarship

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd)

Activities and Societies: AHRC PhD Funding, AHRC Travel Research Award

Msc, Sociology

Activities and Societies: St Peters College Research Travel Award

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Sociology, Political Science, History

Activities and Societies: Provost Honors Scholar