Post-Award Grants & Compliance Specialist

Nichols College; Dudley (MA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is seeking a detail-oriented Grant Administrator (Post-Award) to manage financial and administrative aspects of awarded grants, ensuring compliance with institutional policies and sponsor regulations while supporting principal investigators.

The role involves post-award analytics, budgeting, progress reporting, and coordination with ERP Workday and related systems, fostering strong collaboration across research teams and funding bodies.

Qualifications

• Grant experience preferred but not required.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites.
• Workday and/or Not-for-Profit experience a plus.
• ERP analytics experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring that institutional as well as third-party policies, laws and regulations regarding sponsored research support are proactively addressed.
• Third party award set-ups, sub-award invoicing and monitoring, effort reporting compliance.
• Post-award analytics and other reporting needs, as well as supporting ERP Workday and Huron HRS activities.
• Coordinating the preparation, compilation and submission of progress report documentation, which may include preparing budgets, other support documentation as well as research compliance related records.
• Maintaining and monitoring scientific reporting schedules and proactively engaging research investigators and their administrators in upcoming scientific reporting obligations.
• Interfacing with investigators and collaborating institutions to identify and support needs of funding organizations for approvals including carryover, re-budgeting and no-cost extensions.
• Training institutional staff in the use of electronic grant application and management systems, assisting with the preparation of research funding information for the Annual Report and other reporting functions

Skills

Communication skills

Deadline pressure

Organizational skills

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, finance, biology, computer science

Tools

Workday

Job description

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is seeking a detail-oriented Grant Administrator (Post-Award) to manage financial and administrative aspects of awarded grants, ensuring compliance with institutional policies and sponsor regulations while supporting principal investigators.

The role involves post-award analytics, budgeting, progress reporting, and coordination with ERP Workday and related systems, fostering strong collaboration across research teams and funding bodies.