Executive Director of Grants and Sponsored Programs

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Working Title:

Executive Director of Grants and Sponsored Programs

Institution:

Minnesota State University, Moorhead

Classification Title:

Grants Specialist Supv

Bargaining Unit / Union:

216: Middle Management Association

City:

Moorhead

FLSA:

Job Exempt

Full Time / Part Time:

Full time

Employment Condition:

Classified - Unlimited

Salary Range:

$0.00 - $0.00

Working Title:

Executive Director of Grants and Sponsored Programs

Classification Title of Vacancy:

Grants Specialist Supervisor

Institution:

Minnesota State University Moorhead

City:

Moorhead, MN

Bargaining Unit / Union:

216: Middle Management Association (MMA)

Full-time / Part-time:

Full-time

Employment Condition:

Classified - Unlimited

Salary Range:

The wage range for this position is $36.10 - $52.26 per hour.

Job Description:

Under administrative direction, this position performs supervisory responsibilities and provides guidance to faculty and staff in identifying, submitting, processing, managing, and monitoring grants that are technical in nature. The position facilitates the application and submission process of grant proposals and promotes them to funding agencies. The position provides authoritative instruction to faculty and staff regarding grant budgetary guidelines. This position effectively performs the following supervisory tasks: interviewing, hiring, and promoting employees; determines work priority and assigns responsibilities; evaluates employee performance and mediates grievances when necessary; and administers applicable labor contracts. The position helps establish program goals and objectives and initiates closure of routine grants, ensuring that all applicable requirements are met. Responsibility includes evaluating policies and procedures for grant administration, including both pre-award and post-award administration. This position’s responsibility includes analyzing and monitoring highly complex grants to ensure compliance with university, state, and federal regulations in addition to grant sponsor guidelines.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND RESULTS

Responsibility 1: Lead Grants and Sponsored Programs Office

• Analyze work units needs and develop and implement short- and long-range work plans.
• Determine work priorities, assign work, and monitor completion of work.
• Evaluate work performance of employees. Interview, hire, transfer, and promote employees.
• Recommend the hiring, suspending, or discharge of employees.
• Train and instruct employees in technical areas.
• Mediate and adjust employees’ grievances according to the requirements of the appropriate contract or plan.
• Administer labor agreements and contracts negotiated with MAPE, MSUAASF, and AFSCME.
• Prepare and oversee the Grants budget.

Priority: Essential

Percent of Time: 15%

Responsibility 2: Provide authoritative pre-award guidance for faculty and staff regarding external grants.

• Serve as a primary point of contact and resource for principal investigators.
• Lead, edit, and offer comments on grant proposal narratives for adherence to specifications of funding agency and MSUM guidelines.
• Develop and submit proposals that are integral to the MSUM’s strategic goals.
• Provide authoritative guidance for faculty and staff on developing proposal budgets and budget justifications (calculating time and effort, salaries, fringe, travel, indirect costs, identifying cost sharing is required, and ensuring documentation of hard cash matches).
• Make contact with Sponsored Programs or equivalent offices at collaborating institutions that investigators are involved on a project where MSUM is the lead institution.  Verify collaborating institution’s indirect cost rates.
• Identify and interpret complex university, state, and federal regulations as it impacts grants.
• Serves as liaison between principal investigator, project staff and the sponsor.
• Foster positive relationships with private and public funding agencies as well as community partners.

Priority: Essential

Percent of Time: 15%

Responsibility 3: Serve as technical expert for electronic and manual submission of grants.

• Secures university app