Grants & Compliance Officer - Subaward & Post-Award

Nationwide Children's Hospital; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH seeks a skilled Research Administration Specialist to manage subrecipient agreements and ensure compliance with sponsor guidelines. You will coordinate subawards, monitor progress, and liaise with Compliance, Legal, HR, and research staff to ensure proper post-award management of sponsored projects.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent and at least one year of related experience; experience in research administration or accounting is

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience is required.
• One year of related experience is required; research administration or accounting experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the contact with the sub-recipient to clarify institutional policies and prime sponsor guidelines. Coordinates the negotiation and execution of subawards and modifications with sub-recipients or vendors.
• Liaises with Compliance, Technology Transfer Commercialization, Legal Services, HR, Research Purchasing, Research Finance, and other departments to support post-award management of sponsored research.
• Ensures adherence to policies and sponsor guidelines for issuance of funding and agreements to outside institutions; ensures compliance with FFTA reporting.
• Aligns Research Institute policies with subrecipient requirements (monitoring, indirect costs, cost-share, space, reporting, patent and property rights; purchasing).
• Works with sub-sites, administration, PIs, and research staff to resolve programmatic and compliance issues.
• Maintains professional knowledge via self-study, research, webinars and conferences.
• Disseminates NIH and sponsor guideline changes to customers.
• Active member of the administrative research support team, facilitates meetings to oversee compliance with regulations.

Skills

Subaward negotiation

Sponsor guidelines

Compliance knowledge

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience

Job description

Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH seeks a skilled Research Administration Specialist to manage subrecipient agreements and ensure compliance with sponsor guidelines. You will coordinate subawards, monitor progress, and liaise with Compliance, Legal, HR, and research staff to ensure proper post-award management of sponsored projects.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent and at least one year of related experience; experience in research administration or accounting is