Grants Compliance & Subaward Specialist

Nationwide-Children; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Children's Hospital is seeking a detail-oriented professional to manage post-award subrecipient relationships and ensure compliance with sponsor requirements. You will coordinate subawards and amendments, liaise with compliance, legal, finance, and research offices, and monitor adherence to NIH and federal guidelines.

The role supports administrative research operations, aligns institutional policies with subrecipient needs, and communicates changes in sponsor guidelines to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education and experience.
• One year of related experience.
• Experience in research administration, accounting, or equivalent 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 the Office of Compliance, Office of Technology Transfer Commercialization, Legal Services, Human Resources, Research Purchasing, Research Finance, other Research Institute departments and centers; Division Chiefs, Center Directors and hospital administrators and others as necessary to support the post-award management of sponsored research.
• Ensures adherence to institutional policies and sponsor guidelines for issuance of funding and agreements to outside institutions.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act reporting.
• Assists in aligning the Research Institute’s policies and practices with subrecipient’s requirements (including sub recipient monitoring, indirect cost recovery, cost-share, space requirements; reporting requirements; patent and property rights; purchasing).
• Works with sub-sites, administration, PIs and research staff to resolve programmatic and compliance issues.
• Maintains a high level of professional knowledge through self-study, research, participation in professional development, and attendance at webinars and conferences.
• Disseminates information on changes with NIH and other sponsors guidelines, forms, requirements, regulations, etc. to customers.
• Active member of the administrative research support team, facilitates meetings as needed to effectively oversee compliance with institutional, local, state, federal and other sponsor requirements and regulations.

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education and experience

Job description

Nationwide Children's Hospital is seeking a detail-oriented professional to manage post-award subrecipient relationships and ensure compliance with sponsor requirements. You will coordinate subawards and amendments, liaise with compliance, legal, finance, and research offices, and monitor adherence to NIH and federal guidelines.

The role supports administrative research operations, aligns institutional policies with subrecipient needs, and communicates changes in sponsor guidelines to