Post-Award Grant Analyst — Academic Affairs

Universityculture; Camarillo (CA); On-site; USD 71,000 - 79,000; Part time

Job summary

California State University Channel Islands seeks an Academic & Career Success Post-Award Grant Analyst to oversee grant budgets, expenditures, and compliance for sponsored projects. This temporary, grant-funded role supports CI Compass planning and collaborates with multiple offices to ensure controlled spending and accurate reporting.

Responsibilities include financial analysis, reporting, and coordinating grant transactions while maintaining internal controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting, finance, public administration, higher education administration, or related field.
• Four years of relevant experience involving budgeting, fiscal administration, grants administration, or related work.

Responsibilities

• Monitors, analyzes, and reconciles grant budgets, expenditures, encumbrances, personnel costs, contracts, and other commitments; prepares projections, forecasts, and financial reports to support effective use of grant resources.
• Coordinates grant-funded transactions, including purchasing, travel, reimbursements, contracts, personnel actions, and related administrative processes, with the appropriate University offices.
• Independently identifies and evaluates budget variances, fiscal concerns, timing issues, and other resource considerations across assigned sponsored projects and provides analysis and recommendations to project leadership.
• Interprets and applies sponsor, federal, CSU, and University requirements to grant fiscal and administrative activities; supports implementation of internal controls and documentation practices.
• Prepares the fiscal, administrative, and compliance components of required reports for assigned sponsored projects; maintains supporting records for monitoring, audits, reviews, and other compliance activities.

Skills

Budgeting

Financial reporting

Reconciliation

Data analysis

Grant administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance

Tools

PeopleSoft

Job description

California State University Channel Islands seeks an Academic & Career Success Post-Award Grant Analyst to oversee grant budgets, expenditures, and compliance for sponsored projects. This temporary, grant-funded role supports CI Compass planning and collaborates with multiple offices to ensure controlled spending and accurate reporting.

Responsibilities include financial analysis, reporting, and coordinating grant transactions while maintaining internal controls.