Sr. Grants & Contracts Analyst

The International Vaccine Access Center, in the Bloomberg School of Public Health department of International Health is seeking a Sr. Grants & Contracts Analyst to provide dedicated professional-level sponsored funds management with specific responsibility for pre-award and post-award functions that includes, but may not be limited to proposal preparation, submission, budget development, account maintenance and oversight, billing/invoicing, reporting, compliance, and closeout. Develop financial reports for forecasting and results analysis and ensures compliance with university and/or agency and foundation regulations and restrictions. Works independently on a variety of grants/contracts that range from simple to highly complex. While this role may assist with some aspects of non-sponsored funds, the primary goal of this position is to ensure timely, effective and efficient functioning of sponsored funding.

This position offers training, oversight, guidance and learning support to junior Grants & Contracts Analysts within the department. Will provide broad/in-depth professional administrative level guidance on protocols, regulations and guidelines to PI and other scientific/research professionals, both within the University and with other associated research/administrative professionals outside of the University.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Partner with and act as liaison and final point of contact with departmental faculty and/or staff and the Office of Research Administration (JHURA) toward the planning and development of assigned application submissions to various private agencies/foundations, commercial companies and some federal offices.
• Understand and utilize institutional policies for pre-award grant process and sponsor guidelines.
• Submit and review all grant proposals for assigned faculty. Process review involves checking for accuracy, content, and adherence to all relevant guidelines and compliance with the University and/or agency regulations and restrictions.
• Manage all assigned grant proposal submissions to ensure timeliness and accuracy for assigned Faculty/Principal Investigator (PI) review.
• Manage related post-award processes, including award setup, review, account setup verification, and ensuring that faculty/staff payroll is setup appropriately.
• Monitor receipt of payments/revenue from sponsors. May participate in the development of payment schedules.
• Reviews and assists Sponsored Projects Shared Services with preparation and submission of all progress reports and Financial Status Reports (FSR’s).
• Work with domestic and international sites in terms of compliance, sub awards, invoicing, vendor payments.
• Administer the expenditure of funds, ensuring that funds are expended according to sponsoring organizations stipulations and appropriate university guidelines.
• Recommend and implement changes to ensure balanced accounts.
• Analyze budget patterns, project expenditures and develop financial reports for forecasting, trending, and results analysis for assigned PI’s.
• Field project budgets are spent properly and reported according to Johns Hopkins policies.
• Participates in regular meetings with foreign offices to ensure compliance to these policies and troubleshoot any areas of concerns.
• Monitors employment contracts, agreements, and everyday expenses of field offices and uses them in budget development, expense tracking and projections.
• Develop and submit requests for new subaward agreements, independent contractors, and service agreements. See requests through from start to finish.
• Monitor sub-recipients invoicing, payment and assists in sub-recipient desk reviews and audits.
• Complete the monthly reconciliation process to monitor expenditures on assigned accounts.
• Monitor, identify and communicate over expenditures directly to PIs including the Financial Manager and resolves funding shortfalls or surpluses.
• Prepare non-payroll cost transfers to fix any erroneous charges as needed.
• Submit EFORMS in SAP to allocate salary distributions for assigned faculty/support staff.
• Meet regularly with assigned Faculty to review accounts, forecast spending for future grant submissions.
• Update salary shortfall reports for review by Financial Manager and related faculty.
• Remain updated on changes in policy and sponsors’ requirements.
• Identify budget issues, provide alternative solutions and resolve problems.
• Use various software applications, such as spreadsheets, relational databases, statistical packages and graphics packages to assemble, manipulate and/or format data and/or reports.
• As needed, assist in training other budget staff with financial processes, policies and procedures.
• Work independently with