| Job Description Summary: | The School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), at George Washington University, Finance and Research Administration, is recruiting for a full-time Research Grants Manager to work in a dynamic and growing translational, clinical, and basic research environment. In order to support the research growth efforts, we are looking for an individual who is energetic, proactive and portrays strong customer service skills with all levels of students, faculty, staff, and external constituents. This individual should be excited to assist in establishing school processes, procedures, and reports to support significant growth in the research area.
This senior level position focuses on providing research program support, and pre-award and post award management on behalf of a research program or initiative. This position makes recommendations to policy and procedures, and has authority to implement change. This position often maintains fiscal responsibility and manages budgets and compliance timelines throughout the award, as well as outreach to other GW stakeholders in order to assist in maintaining standard operational efficiencies. This position serves as the primary liaison partnering with Principal Investigators, managing day-to-day operations through direct grant award and administrative contributions to ensure research success.
Responsibilities include:
- Manages day-to-day post-award administration and financial compliance for a complex portfolio of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences grants and contracts from award setup to closeout.
- Serves as a sponsored projects financial compliance resource across the pod using subject matter expertise in this area and advanced knowledge of sponsored projects and GW guidelines to review and approve requests, transactions and financial compliance matters.
- Provides guidance and make recommendations to research administrators and administrative staff on sponsored projects regarding expense allocability and allowability and advises on corrective action.
- Works collaboratively with principal investigators (PIs) to monitor award expenditures ensuring allocability and allowability with sponsor and GW policies, and preventing overspending.
- Reviews and approves expenditures, allocates effort on sponsored projects and prereviews effort reports; ensuring corrective action is taken as need including processing cost transfers, labor redistributions and re-budgets.
- Understands, applies, and advises on university and funder policies and supports award modification (no-cost extensions, change in personnel, scope revision, budget reallocation requests) and pre-award spending requests
- Coordinates with the office of sponsored projects on award and budget setup, subrecipient and subcontract agreement processing, encumbers funds and participates in subrecipient financial monitoring.
- Puts together budgets, and expenditure forecasts; supports PIs with financial aspects of progress reports and sponsor requests; and facilitates financial closeout of awards in a timely manner.
- Meets with faculty to discuss their awards, liaises with key offices including Grants and Contracts Accounting; and problem solves award issues
Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position.
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| Minimum Qualifications: | Qualified candidates will hold a Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization plus 5 years of relevant professional experience, or, a Master’s degree or higher in a relevant area of study plus 3 years of relevant professional experience. Degree must be conferred by the start date of the position. Degree requirements may be substituted with an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. |
| Preferred Qualifications: | - Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Management, or related field desired.
- Strong Experience managing post-award activities including financial research administration and compliance is preferred.
- Advanced Knowledge of sponsored research regulations and cost principles including Uniform Guidance and the ability to interpret and apply, sponsor guidelines; and university policies and procedures is desired.
- Strong budgeting experience, including ability to review, monitor and analyze budgets desired.
- Excellent communication, organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) and experience with grant management and enterprise accounting systems preferred.
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