Grants Administrator, Post-Award

New York University; New York (NY); On-site; USD 77,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

New York University’s School of Global Public Health seeks a Post Award Administrator to coordinate post-award lifecycles across grants and subawards. You will manage submission timelines, subaward setups, procurement workflows, and sponsor reporting, ensuring compliance with NYU and sponsor guidelines while delivering on schedule.

The role acts as a liaison among faculty, departmental teams, subrecipient institutions, and central offices, handling non-financial compliance workflows and Concur

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics or other analytical discipline.
• 2+ years quantitative analytical experience, preferably in finance or accounting; experience with post-award grants management including NIH and other federal or international grants.
• Experience in a college or university setting preferred.
• Ability to understand management requirements and broader processes and to frame research and financial analysis clearly; strong quantitative and modeling skills; familiarity with databases, workflow systems, and presentation/SQL tools; proficient in Word and Excel; capable of delivering influential presentations to external senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate post-award lifecycles across a portfolio of grants and subawards.
• Manage submission timelines, subaward processing, and sponsor reporting logistics.
• Ensure compliance with NYU and sponsor guidelines and keep deliverables on schedule.
• Serve as liaison among faculty, departmental teams, subrecipient institutions, and central university offices.

Skills

Quantitative analytics

Financial modeling

Data management

Presentation skills

MS Word & Excel

Google Apps

SQL / databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance/economics

Tools

PeopleSoft

UDW+

Cayuse

i-Buy

WorkDay Concur

Job description

Position Summary

The Post Award Administrator serves as the operational backbone for sponsored project administration within the School of Global Public Health (GPH). This position exists to drive the central coordination, tracking, and administrative execution of post-award lifecycles across a complex portfolio of grants and subawards. By actively managing submission timelines, subaward processing, procurement workflows, and sponsor reporting logistics, the Administrator ensures full compliance with NYU and sponsor guidelines while keeping project deliverables strictly on schedule. Operating as a key liaison among faculty, departmental teams, subrecipient institutions, and central university offices, this role streamlines day-to-day administrative operations. By managing non-financial compliance workflows, subaward setups, and Concur transaction tracking, the Administrator creates vital operational capacity—enabling Senior Post-Award Analysts to concentrate on high-level financial strategy, complex forecasting, and strategic faculty consulting.

Qualifications

• Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics or other analytical discipline.
• Required Experience: 2+ years Quantitative analytical experience, preferably in finance or accounting; experience working with post-award grants management including NIH and other federal or international grants.
• Preferred Experience: Experience in a college or university setting.
• Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities: Ability to understand management requirements and broader processes and to frame the result of research and financial analysis in a clear and concise fashion. Strong quantitative and modeling skills Familiarity and ability to use databases, workflow systems, and presentation and standard query tool software. Demonstrated proficiency with intermediate to advanced level Microsoft Word and Excel Google Apps Proficient in the creation and delivery of influential presentations, delivered to an external, senior audience. Ability to understand management requirements and broader processes and to frame the result of research and financial analysis in a clear and concise fashion Ability to analyze and interpret financial data.
• Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Abilities: Familiarity with Peoplesync, UDW+,Cayuse, i-Buy, WorkDay Concur.

Additional Information

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is USD $77,000.00 to USD $84,700.00. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items. NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040. Learn more at nyu.edu/nyugreen.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, reproductive health decision making, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. All interested persons are encouraged to apply at all levels.