Scheduled Hours

40

Position Summary

Responsible for complex post-award activities. Responsible for financial reporting and management of grants, gifts, and projects for Principal Investigators.

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Act as liaison to accounting departments to resolve accounting issues and manage year-end process.
• Tracks and maintains online database of grants submitted, awarded, rejected, etc.
• Works with PIs to provide fund management and make any necessary budgetary changes.
• Approves purchasing documents and provides guidance to purchasing staff on appropriate expenditures according to specific grant policies.
• Updates and forecasts grant expenditures for faculty grant portfolios.
• Ensures timely implementation of contracts and subcontracts by managing processes, examining information and complying with necessary requirements of OSRS.
• Creates, addresses, and processes correspondence of moderate to high complexity with granting agencies, i.e. inquiries, carry forward requests, change in effort requests, no cost extensions, equipment purchase, and budget reallocation requests).
• Obtains signatures and forwards grant financial status reports to PI and senior leadership.
• Monitors invoices for outgoing subawards.
• Coordinates the necessary support with internal and external requests for grant-related information (i.e. current biosketches, trainee information, human/animal protocol approvals, and other support).
• Responsible for closure of grant accounts. Submits final progress report and final invention statement (if applicable) to the appropriate agency.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of departmental grant financial operations, including but not limited to accounts payable, accounts receivable, program budgets, revenue reconciliation, financial reporting and analysis.
• May be responsible for Center Grant duties in some departments:
• Manages Cores and Subcores, program income, bridge/seed and institutional funds.  Provides monthly financial reports to the Program Director and Core/Subcore Directors.  Serves as financial resource for the entire Center.
• Performs data gathering, analysis and report on Center major equipment inventories, maintenance and replacement, along with annual financial and strategic planning.
• Designs and implements reporting database for Cores/Subcores to track services for billing purposes.  Performs data gathering, analysis and reports for the Cores/Subcores and forecasts anticipated annual expenses and program income.
• Prepares, sends, and monitors invoices for services performed by the Cores.  In addition, reconciles the service funds each month.
• Assists in the preparation of all financial and summary information, including investigators, grants, publications and Core use, for the Director/Associate Director meetings, annual progress report and renewal.
• Performs role as liaison for Program Director in communicating policies and procedures to Center Investigators, Core/Subcore Directors, Administrators and Staff in daily operations directly related to the research associated with the Center.
• Distributes, monitors, tracks and reports on performance survey results provided by Center Investigators who have utilized the Centers’ Core/Subcore services.
• Responsible for coordinating all Center lectures, scientific forums, workshops, as well as advertising via e-mails/flyers/posters, etc.
• Participates in all Center-related meetings and symposiums. 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Working Conditions:

Job Location/Working Conditions

• Normal office environment.

Physical Effort

• Typically sitting at desk or table.
• Repetitive wrist, hand or finger movement.

Equipment

• Office equipment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified. Management reserves the right to revise or amend duties at any time.

Required Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s deg