ARPA-H Grants Finance Manager

Georgetown University; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking a Financial Grant Manager to oversee financial and compliance management of externally funded awards, with a focus on ARPA-H. You will serve as a liaison between faculty and university offices, providing forecasting, reporting, and post-award support for awards and contracts.

The ideal candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing competing priorities while learning new systems quickly in a milestone-driven research

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience in a grants management role.
• Knowledge of a variety of sponsored research funding mechanisms, including federal agencies (NIH, ARPA-H, NSF, DOD, etc.).
• Expertise with federal funding guidelines (e.g., 2 CFR 200, FAR).
• Proficiency with financial systems, accounting, and cost accounting standards as they pertain to grants and contracts management.
• Budgeting experience and a high level of proficiency in Excel.
• Proficient with software products including Adobe Professional and DocuSign.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving research environment.
• Demonstrated learning agility: able to master unfamiliar funding mechanisms, sponsor requirements, and financial systems quickly and with minimal supervision.
• Capacity to establish clear priorities, adapt to changing circumstances, and multi-task quickly and effectively under pressure and against short deadlines
• Collegial and collaborative working style, with the ability to build and sustain effective working relationships across faculty, internal university offices, internal and external academic/industrial consortium partners, including acting as a close operational partner to Lead Project Managers and PIs in a fast-paced, milestone-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly financial reports, reconciliations, and early warnings for budget variances, underspend, or cashflow risks.
• Track commitments, actual expenditures, accruals, forecasts, available balances, and burn rates for sponsored projects.
• Coordinate financial reporting and invoice reviews across prime, co-lead, sub-performers, and consortium participants.
• Guide faculty through the financial aspects of sponsor progress reports and determine the need for effort adjustments or prior approval requests.
• Maintain auditable records supporting cost transfers, procurements, consultant costs, and equipment purchases.
• Apply formal financial change control and support award modifications with accurate cost impact analyses and budget scenarios.
• Respond quickly to shifting program priorities, re-scoped milestones, and sponsor-driven redirections, re-forecasting and re-baselining budgets on short turnaround.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Learning agility

Multitasking

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Excel

Adobe Acrobat Pro

DocuSign

Workday

Job description

Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking a Financial Grant Manager to oversee financial and compliance management of externally funded awards, with a focus on ARPA-H. You will serve as a liaison between faculty and university offices, providing forecasting, reporting, and post-award support for awards and contracts.

The ideal candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing competing priorities while learning new systems quickly in a milestone-driven research