Senior expertise.
No long-term commitment.
Clarity Research Administration Consulting was founded on a simple observation: many research institutions lack the in-house expertise to manage complex award portfolios, navigate federal audits, or train staff effectively — yet they cannot always justify a full-time senior hire.
Clarity fills that gap. Every engagement is scoped as a defined project with a clear timeline, concrete deliverables, and a fixed fee — so you know exactly what you are getting and when.
With eighteen years of hands-on experience across every level of research administration — from post-award accounting through department director — Clarity brings practitioner depth to every project.
"To deliver confidence, compliance, and clarity to research-driven organizations through expert post-award administration and staff development — one well-defined project at a time."
Jamie Szabo brings eighteen years of progressively senior research administration experience at major research universities to every Clarity engagement. Her career spans the full arc of the research enterprise — from post-award accounting and compliance through department-level directorship overseeing a $20M extramural portfolio across 40–50 faculty investigators.
Jamie spent twenty years at the University of Missouri, serving in roles including Senior Accountant, Senior Compliance Manager, Associate Director of Sponsored Programs Administration, Director of Research Analytics, and Director of Research Operations and Planning for the Department of Medicine — where she led pre-award, post-award, laboratory, and clinical trials operations and managed a team of five.
She currently serves as a Senior Research Administrator at a University of California research institute, managing a $40M+ portfolio of NIH grants, CIRM awards, and other complex mechanisms — including NIH U24 cooperative agreements and multi-institutional awards — for a nationally recognized genomics research unit.