Sr. Grants & Contracts Specialist
Children's National HospitalAbout the role
Description
The Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist will work independently with grants, contracts, and clinical trial agreements from a variety of sponsors and funding agencies that may be federal, non-federal, state and local government, private foundations, and pharmaceutical companies. Will be responsible for all aspects of sponsor-facing grants management, including review and negotiation of award, internal account setup, sponsor approval requests and modifications, reporting, award compliance, and non-financial closeout. . The Senior GCS will coordinate with other department team members to ensure the award terms and conditions are met from award acceptance through close-out.
Qualifications
Minimum EducationBachelor's Degree Business, Health Care, Public Administration or related field. (Required)
Master's Degree In similar fields. (Preferred)
Minimum Work Experience
3 years Progressive experience in grants or contracts related to biomedical research, and/or healthcare/medical programs and services. Preferred office environment is central or department administration, office of sponsored programs, office of research administration, university or medical center setting, or federal grant-making agency. (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Working Knowledge: NIH Grants Policy Statement (12/03), FAR and DFAR clauses, OMB Circulars A-110, A-122 and A-133 in addition to 45 CFR Part 74, Appendix E.
Math Ability Level: Basic Algebra and Statistics. Perform basic algebraic equations and statistics (average).
Human Relations Skill Level: Critical.
Computer Skill Requirements: Critical. Hardware: PC compatible. Software: MS Office including Word and Excel are critical. MS Access and PowerPoint are a plus. HBOC Trendstar is a plus.
Ability to use formatting commands and higher level commands and functions are a plus.
Required Licenses and Certifications
Willingness to achieve credentialing as Certified Research Administrator (CRA) within three years of employment. (Required)
Functional Accountabilities
Pre-Award Services
- Serves as expert advisor to faculty, and other departments for general inquiries and concerns.
- Provides official proposal review to check for errors, missing or incomplete information according to sponsor requirements and proposal guidelines.
- Forwards appropriate documents to signature official (SO) as needed.
- Coordinates timeline for proposal submissions.
- Submits the final approved proposal to the funding agency or sponsor.
- Responsible for negotiating legal terms and conditions for the industry sponsored clinical trial agreement.
- Forwards requests for patient-care budgets to the Clinical Trial Office (CTO) as needed.
- Responsible for review and contract negotiations.
- Responsible for award analysis and account set-up.
- Responsible for review and submission of the scientific progress report, JIT requests and other similar requests.
- Responsible for review and submission of administrative requests such as change in scope or key personnel, no-cost extensions, supplemental requests, etc.
- Responsible for updating department information systems and official records to keep information accurate, complete and up-to-date at all times.
- Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
- Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
- Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
- Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
- Actively promote safety for patients, famili
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