Grants Administrator, Engineering Research - Hybrid

University of Alabama at Birmingham; University (FL); Hybrid; USD 64,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Alabama at Birmingham seeks a Grants Administrator-SOE to provide pre and post award grants support and operational management of the same in the School of Engineering. This role serves as the primary interface to investigators and university offices regarding research administration.

Responsibilities include preparing and submitting sponsored proposals, calculating effort, developing budgets, managing post‑award activities, and ensuring compliance with sponsor guidelines and UAB

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• Seven (7) years of related experience required; experience may not substitute for education.

Responsibilities

• Manages research grants administration for the School of Engineering, serving as the lead contact to engineering research faculty and to UAB Office of Sponsored Programs and external organizations.
• Prepares, refines, reviews, and submits fully populated sponsored research proposals to OSP on behalf of the school’s faculty; explains pre-award requirements and sponsor guidelines; calculates personnel effort and develops budgets; liaises with sponsor agencies, sub-award sites, internal groups, and school leadership.
• Reviews draft grant components and completes UAB forms and checklists; obtains internal approvals for proposal submission; uploads documents to submission portal and submits final proposal to OSP by deadline; reviews submissions for the School of Engineering.
• Manages post award activities over the life cycle of grants and contracts; allocates costs to awards, handles subcontracts and invoicing, reconciles accounts, prepares monthly PI reports, processes salary reclasses and cost transfers, submits amendments; interfaces with investigators to resolve issues.
• Ensures performance by staff in compliance with laws and UAB policies; manages services to achieve high satisfaction.
• Serves as Department Effort Officer (DEO) for assigned departments and oversees effort reporting; provides training to research personnel.
• Serves on research administration committees and attends meetings; participates in onboarding and training for research personnel; prepares activity reports for leadership.
• Interviews, hires, trains, and evaluates direct reports; performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Financial and Accounting skills

Strong problem solving skills

Advanced project management skills

Detail-oriented

Ability to work with a high degree of-

Conflict resolution skills

Process improvement and quality skills

Strong communication and interpersonal

Effective Customer Service skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

University of Alabama at Birmingham seeks a Grants Administrator-SOE to provide pre and post award grants support and operational management of the same in the School of Engineering. This role serves as the primary interface to investigators and university offices regarding research administration.

Responsibilities include preparing and submitting sponsored proposals, calculating effort, developing budgets, managing post‑award activities, and ensuring compliance with sponsor guidelines and UAB