Tarsha Barton, Ph.D.
Long Valley,NJ
Summary
Driven Administrative Professional adept at developing and maintaining detailed procedural processes that reduce redundancy, improve accuracy and efficiency. *Passionate about mentoring and leadership with solid experience managing all levels of large scale projects, *Known for developing, introducing, and teaching Administrative Leadership approaches that benchmark success. *Driven to learn quickly. *Motivated team player offering advanced education and passion for industry. *Strong experience working with grant budgets and applications - specifically with NIH. *Demonstrated competence in independent management of a large number of accounts with varying project periods.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Support of Chairman/Lead Admin/Engagement Leader
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
09.2006 - Current
- Manage Chairman's corporate expenses, monitor corporate budget, manage philanthropic funds, interact with donors and coordinate executive meetings. Act as liaison with multiple departments as well as external institutions and executives.
- Process invoices and T&E expense claims for Principal Investigators. Ensure all policies are followed and items are processed within provided guidelines.
- Assist with staff on-boarding and off-boarding, which includes requesting equipment setup and system access
- Produce high quality emails and messages to individuals at all levels of the organization
- Host and organize details of corporate events and meetings (including logistics for meeting facilities -telephone and video conferencing). Coordinate travel of PI's and visitors, create corporate agendas as well as manage the daily calendar of each PI. Manage complex and frequently changing international and domestic travel arrangements, create expense reports, budgets and filing systems
- Lead and manage Administration projects as needed. Develop, deliver and manage training, mentoring and meetings for new and senior administrative assistants. Developed the first Lunch and Learn series for Administrative Assistants. Optimize Administrative Development strategies with clear advice on course choices, progression and career options.
- Works with internal departments to resolve outstanding administrative regards. Prepare purchase orders for vendors/contractors, monitored budget accounts.
- Process payroll via MSK Time and track annual vacation records of lab employees. Research proposed and implemented vendor services to decrease organizational costs.
- Streamline workflow and consolidate lengthy processes, resulting in more effective and timely completion of core administrative functions
- Developed new business practices by collaborating with Administration and Administrative Professionals.
- Support Development teams, creating, deploying and optimizing database for philanthropic review for clients.
- Meet deadlines, exceeding expectations and effectively rolling out several MSK initiatives including MSK Time, Workday, Yammer, Sharepoint and Teams.
- Create onboarding plan and act as a mentor and trainer for new administrative professionals. Use engagement. strategies to keep employees abreast and involved in administrative procedures as well as their own development.
Grant Coordinator-Functional Genomics Initiative
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
09.2014 - Current
- Submit governmental and sponsored grant proposals for Principal Investigators. Work with Directors and grant program staff to implement established grant compliance policies and procedures. Manage post-award services and oversee state and federal grant awards for compliance with uniform guidance and grant-specific requirements.. Direct all phases of the internal competition project, from Intro Phase until presentation of award, budget and funding aspects. Concurrently plan all other review meetings as well as Quarterly meetings for Committee Members. Collect and compile data for financial and statistical executive reports.
- Collaborate with MSK Hospital and Weill Cornell Administration to ensure professional marketing of the initiative and proper RFA language for White Paper purposes.
- Develop executive presentations, reports and documents to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement.
- Establish planning/budgeting of award including monitoring post award funds. Established and maintained electronic files for grant-funded projects for tracking and reporting.
Education
Ph.D. - Clinical Chaplaincy / Pastoral Psychotherapy
Heart Bible Institute University
01.2022
Master of Arts - Organizational Management
Ashford University Online
Clinton, IA2015
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Ashford University Online
Clinton, IA2010
Skills
- Software Proficiency: Workday, Sharepoint, Teams, Zoom, WebEx, Kemper, RAAD, Drupal, eReq/Coupa, Google Workspace, G-Suite, Outlook and Slack
- Data and Statistics Management of Award Budgets/ Grants management
- Engagement and Team Leader - Self Motivated/ Extremely organized/ Strong verbal and written communication
Accomplishments
- 2019 Excellence Award Recipient - SKI Research Professional Awards
- Work directly with Senior Leadership to develop and manage internal grant program funded by a 12.4K philanthropic donation
- Mentored 15 Administrative Professionals in 2022, 8 in 2021 and over 20 between2018-2020
- Design and implement personal development series for Administrative Professionals. Mentor and Train as well.
Affiliations
Member, Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Affiliation, NYC (2011-Present) (Freemason)
Member, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated NYC (2022-Present)
Additional Information
Co-Author: Make Pain Pay (2017)
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteHybridTimeline
Grant Coordinator-Functional Genomics Initiative
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
09.2014 - Current
Executive Support of Chairman/Lead Admin/Engagement Leader
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
09.2006 - Current
Ph.D. - Clinical Chaplaincy / Pastoral Psychotherapy
Heart Bible Institute University
Master of Arts - Organizational Management
Ashford University Online
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Ashford University Online
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