POST AWARD GRANT MANAGER

University of Washington; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university seeks a Post Award Grant Manager to oversee post-award duties for departmental principal investigators within the School of Medicine. This role involves financial reporting, compliance management, and substantial interaction with faculty and administrative teams, ensuring efficient grant administration while maintaining high standards of service.

Benefits

Generous benefits

Work/life programs

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in research administration and financial planning.
• Experience developing and monitoring complex budgets.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage multiple sponsored projects assuring all transactions are allowable.
• Ensure grant and contract agreements are executed in a timely manner.
• Provide financial information and reports to Principal Investigators.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Workday

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Req #: 246802

Department: SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Job Location Detail: Telework schedule to be determined with the potential for fully remote work

Posting Date: 06/11/2025

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $6,498 - $8,454 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-contract-covered-exempt-20250130-a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.


The School of Medicine (SoM) Post-Award Shared Services Department has an outstanding opportunity for a Post-Award Grant Manager.


Under the supervision of the Post-Award Grant Manger Lead, the Post Award Grant Manager (Grant Manager) is responsible for completing all post-award duties for a designated portfolio of departmental Principal Investigator’s (PIs) within the SoM.

The Grant Manager works to ensure successful financial reporting of grants, contracts, and sub-awards, in addition to administrative management of all research activities for their assigned portfolio of PIs. This position works closely with sponsor agencies, central UW offices, faculty, and departmental staff to ensure both that the department is compliant with all sponsor, UW, federal, state, and industry policies and that grant administrative deliverables are being accomplished. The Grant Manager must understand and interpret complex requirements and be able to balance multiple priorities and deadlines in a complex environment, with demonstrated ability to prioritize essential tasks with short lead times. This position requires a high degree of personal initiative, strong communication and organizational skills, high work standards, and an active interest in providing excellent customer service.

This position works to ensure successful financial reporting of grants, contracts, and sub-awards; and provides administrative management of all research activities for their assigned portfolio of PIs. A full time grant manager (1.0 FTE) is expected to support roughly 60 award lines.


DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Post-Award Management 40%

• Independently manage multiple sponsored projects assuring that all transactions are allowable, allocable, and reasonable.
• Assure compliance with non-IRB related policies and procedures at the UW and sponsors.
• Authorize actions by central university offices and the department in matters concerning the establishment and continuation of grant, contract, and research sub-awards.
• Ensure grant, contract and research sub-award agreements are executed in a timely manner, by regularly monitoring status and communicating with appropriate internal and external administrative offices.
• Implement, monitor, and manage budgets.
• Work through the administrative details of research sub-awards with various institutions domestically and internationally.
• Facilitate sub-award set up within the UW to ensure timely invoicing as needed. Ensure sub-recipient monitoring is adequate and documented.
• Interact with staff of UW Grant and Contract Accounting on post-award management issues including ensuring correct application of indirect costs.
• Work through the close-out at the end of grants.
• Ensure cost-share processing, as appropriate.Sponsor and Internal Reporting for Grants and Contracts 30%
• Work with Principal Investigators to complete and submit required sponsor reporting such as progress reports and final reports.
• Provide financial information as required. Keep PIs abreast of deadlines and reporting requirements.
• Provide regular reports to Principal Investigators to review and confirm monthly transactions and payroll charges.
• Provide monthly and quarterly reports (and as requested) that include spending analysis, forecast future needs, and communicate status and progress of personnel, travel, equipment, research sub-awards, and other spending activities and communicate status and progress to principal investigators.
• Meet with Principal Investigators to review project plans and projections.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of faculty effort certification report.
• Manage subcontracts in Workday (i.e. monitor the spending, invoice approval, etc.) and communicate with the subcontract administrative contact.Administrative Duties 30%
• Review and approve grant expenditures and purchases in Workday while verifying funding and compliance.
• Allocate effort according to award, including setting up and maintaining costing allocations for PIs and supporting staff.
• Process expense and salary transfers as needed.
• Act as the grant and contract Compliance Officer for the department in compliance with UW, federal, and state policies and regulations.
• Serve as Faculty Effort Coordinator for assigned department.
• Attend monthly/quarterly University, college, and departmental meetings, including MRAM, and research admin staff meetings.
• Advise department leadership of research activities and issues on a regular basis. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelor’s degree in any field.
• Three or more years of experience in research administration and financial planning. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Experience developing and monitoring complex budgets.
• Demonstrated experience adhering to local, state, federal, and sponsor financial rules and regulations.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently with a high degree of reliability, accuracy, and productivity.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and work independently to resolve problems.
• Commitment to continuous process improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to manage priorities to meet deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience in grant management with substantial responsibility for financial reporting and subcontract management.
• Experience managing payroll with NIH salary cap limitations.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, administrative creativity, and strong initiative.
• Experience with Workday financials. Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.
  
  

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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