Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist- Grants and Contracts Office

Strength Through Diversity

Ground breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal.

Roles & Responsibilities: 

This individual serves as a Grant or Contract reviewer for the Mount Sinai School of Medicine/ Mount Sinai Health System. Interacts with the faculty, departmental administrators, finance and institutional compliance committees on all Sponsored Programs and research programs. Represent the Institution to non-profit funding agencies, federal government officials and drug and device manufacturers.

• Report to the Associate Dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Assistant Director, Grants and Contracts Office regarding research-related activities
• Provide reports as requested for departments and individual researchers
• The Grants Specialist reviews approximately one thousand grant applications per year for all pre-award financial and administrative policies on behalf of Institutions central business office. Interact with departmental administrators, faculty and extramural funding agencies (Federal, NY State, non-profit etc.) to enforce needed corrections prior to institutional endorsement. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Grants Specialist is responsible for correct compliance characterization of the above applications and routing to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Review Board, Bio-Safety Officer and Financial Conflict of Interest in Research Committee. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Reviews and provide Just-In-Time, supplemental and amended information to extramural sponsors on above applications. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Provides information to Sponsored Programs Accounting for fund activation.
• Additional responsibilities split between positions include maintenance of web-site and electronic forms, creation and maintenance of training grant tables, liaison to the Institutional Bio-Safety Officer, liaison to the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, liaison to the Committee on Special Awards and Fellowships and creation and distribution of funding opportunities packets, calendars and special alerts.
• Negotiates clinical trial agreements and amendments on behalf of Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Generally negotiations occur with pharmaceutical or device company attorneys and have broad legal repercussions to the Institution. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Reviews mail and negotiates (if applicable) funding agreements from other Educational Institutions and Non-profit Sponsors (AHA etc.)
• Negotiates site agreements for large scale, NIH funded clinical trials with coordinating centers at MSSM. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Liaison to the Office of Industrial Liaison for Sponsored Research Agreements and IP issues pertaining to non-profit agreements. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Liaison to Risk Management for Certificate of Insurance Requests.
• Liaison to Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) for subcontracts written by SPA, but signed by GCO.
• Must have a strong working knowledge of information systems including the Grants Tracking System and Microsoft Office Suite to:
  • Provide customized fiscal reports for academic and service departments within the organization. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
  • Routine entry and maintenance of data for all non-federal sponsorship in the Grants Tracking System. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.

• Bachelors or equivalent combination of education and related work experience
• Six years of related experience

 

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and foste