Erika Roditis

In her role as Assistant Director, Erika supports overall PME financial analysis and reporting, forecasting, budget preparation, payroll, and strategy. She also supports sponsored research administration trend analysis and troubleshooting, procurement, and capital expenditures. She serves as a liaison to the PME thematic areas, including budget planning, forecasts, and remediating issues as needed. Erika works closely with PME leadership, faculty, program staff, and other administrators to optimize future grant funding while strengthening the management and monitoring of current sponsored research projects. She also works closely with central units such as Financial Services, University Research Administration (URA), and Procurement Services to ensure that all necessary financial data is captured across PME’s portfolio of sponsor-funded research projects, gifts, endowments, and operational funds. Erika brings over 17 years of higher education budgeting, finance, and grants administration experience, most recently as Assistant Dean for Budget & Operations at Columbia College Chicago.