Grants Manager

Are you a Clinical Research Finance professional with pre and post award experience? If yes, check out this position as this is for YOU!

Scope Of Role

Resolves issues and significant matters on behalf of management by utilizing independent judgment, discretion, creativity, and analytical thinking. Contributes to development and evaluation of goals and objectives. May supervise, mentor, or coordinate work of others (positions that supervise are responsible for service delivery, quality assurance, and employee performance). May independently manage or administer programs, processes, projects, or resources. Proactively resolves broad and unique matters requiring sophisticated analysis and interpretation. Acts as a resource to others.

Primary Duties

• Prepares grant and contract budget and application.
• Finalizes documents for submission.
• Validate proposal error and/or warnings.
• Knowledgeable in all funding mechanisms and interprets of federal, state, company, sponsor policies and regulations and requirements to ensure compliance and adherence to those policies.
• Provides consultation, advice, and directions to all level staff and faculty regarding grant and/or contracting issue resolution.
• Translates program requirements into contract terms in consultation with principal investigator (PI) and management.
• Identifies, develops, and ensures contract requirements contain quantifiable specification and measurable performance criteria.
• Ensures all results are completed and submitted to the sponsor.
• Reviews sponsor guidelines and request for proposals, interpret and communicate compliance and eligibility information to research faculty and staff.
• Seeks information to obtain better understanding of processes.
• Identifies inconsistencies in process and develops suggestions for improvements to ensure higher quality processes
• Maintains all close documentation for the department and the sub awards.
• Seeks approvals for invention statements and publications
• Interprets data for the purpose of determining past financial performance to develop and prepare financial reports for financial analysis, forecasting, and trending.
• Recommends overall adjustments in effort allocation and spending across the investigator portfolio.
• Provides PI and management with adhoc reports in support of strategic plan.
• Develops safeguards to ensure the integrity of grant administration or contracts
• Ensures sub-awards are also in compliance with terms and conditions of the award.
• Anticipates roadblocks and is able to independently resolve proactively.
• Develops evaluation criteria for review of grant and contract applications.
• Reviews and interprets funding agency guidelines and regulations
• Develops timeline to meet submission deadlines and checklist of required documents and
• independently adjusts timeline to adapt to change.
• Independently prioritizes processes to ensure timelines are met.
• Provides guidance on staffing and budgetary requirements.
• Reviews and maintains documentation related to cost transfers, requests for expenditures, effort reporting, budget revisions, and fund statements.
• Coordinates invoicing, accounts receivable, and deposits in the financial system and ensures payments are applied correctly.
• Interacts directly with designation sponsor representatives to clarify ambiguous terms and conditions, and to request supplemental funding, no cost extensions, and other administrative
• requests.
• May provide work coordination or oversight of others.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree. Master's degree preferred
• Experience: Five (5) years of directly related contract, grant, or research administration.
• Must Have: Financial disclosure reporting required by State of Maryland Ethics Commission.

Benefits:

• Paid Sick Leave (Medix provides paid sick leave according to state and local sick leave ordinances)
• Health Benefits / Dental / Vision (Medix Offers 6 different health plans: 3 Major Medical Plans, 2 Fixed Indemnity Plans (Standard and Preferred), and 1 Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) Plan. Eligibility for health benefits is based on verifying that an average of 30 hours per week during the first 4 weeks of the work assignment has been met. If you meet eligibility requirements and take action to enroll, you will be covered no earlier than 60 days into your assignment, depending on plan selection(s).)
• 401k (eligible on the first 401k open enrollment date following 6 consecutive months on assignment. 401k Open Enrollment dates are 1/1, 4/1, 7/1, and 10/1)
• Short Term Disability Insurance
• Term Life Insurance Plan