Grants Operations Manager – Medical Research

Mount Sinai; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a Manager, Grants to oversee budgetary and administrative aspects of awarded research grants and contracts. You will work with investigators and administrative staff to ensure fiscal health of funds across departments.

With the Department Administrator, you will evaluate operating and financial practices, develop new systems and policies to achieve financial goals for the research program, and mentor junior staff as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA in related areas preferred.
• 7+ years experience in grants management or closely relevant, preferably in health care or higher education, with a minimum of 3 years of supervisory experienced preferred.
• Familiarity with compiling financial reports reflecting financial status and operating procedures of organizations.
• Highly organized with a focus on teamwork and creating usable and accessible administrative tools
• Excellent communication and ability to work effectively with all levels of staff and management
• Administrative experience in an academic or research-oriented environment and possess the motivation and organizational skills needed to contribute in a cutting edge research environment

Responsibilities

• Monitors monthly budget, fund and or/general ledgers for assigned funds in the Department’s Research program; provides variance analysis.
• Ensures that grants, clinical trials and other revenue and expense driven projects and streams are properly monitored.
• Communicates with accounting staff to obtain variance explanations, to alert them to wire transfers and to ensure that revenue and expenses are captured properly.
• Prepare and submit purchase orders, contracts, change orders, invoices, check requests, petty cash vouchers, travel requests and travel vouchers, fund transfers and other transactions as necessary.
• Analyzes the revenue cycle and revenue stream for the research program and assists in developing feasibility and profitability analysis and/or business plans for new and existing programs, including new faculty recruitment and revenue capture.
• Prepares regular and ad hoc reports and participates in follow-up discussions with business unit leadership.
• Recommend and implement approved changes for efficiencies, documenting those procedures.
• May mentor, train or oversee more junior staff.
• Performs other related duties

Skills

Budget oversight

Financial analysis

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a Manager, Grants to oversee budgetary and administrative aspects of awarded research grants and contracts. You will work with investigators and administrative staff to ensure fiscal health of funds across departments.

With the Department Administrator, you will evaluate operating and financial practices, develop new systems and policies to achieve financial goals for the research program, and mentor junior staff as needed.