Post Award Team Lead - Sponsored Agreements Management

Virginia Tech; Blacksburg (VA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Virginia Tech’s Office of Sponsored Programs seeks a Post Award Team Lead - Sponsored Agreements Management to manage non-financial post award activities and final closeout of sponsored awards. The role leads a team, oversees sponsor-system administration, and ensures compliance with federal, state, and sponsor rules.

The position includes supervisory responsibilities, policy development, and liaison with sponsors.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or Bachelor's degree with significant relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of a Master's degree.
• Grants administration experience in a research or academic environment.
• Demonstrated accounting and budgeting experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage non-financial post award management and final closeout of sponsored research awards.
• Serve as the technical administrator of sponsor systems for the Post Award Team, including role/access maintenance and certification.
• Provide leadership for research administration and assist in developing administrative procedures to ensure compliance with sponsor and university regulations.

Skills

Grants administration

Budgeting

Leadership

Supervisory experience

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree with significant relevant work experience

Job description

Job Description

The Office of Sponsored Programs at Virginia Tech is seeking a Post Award Team Lead - Sponsored Agreements Management to serve as the first-line manager for all non-financial post award management and final closeout of sponsored research awards. The lead will provide professional administrative management of personnel and complex grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The lead will be responsible for portfolio management of awarded sponsored programs ensuring Virginia Tech policies and procedures are following all federal, state, and other sponsor rules and regulations, and responsible for adding or revising policies and procedures as needed. Management of sponsored awards includes: contact with the sponsor to request prior approval, facilitating rebudgeting, obtaining no-cost approval, managing complex cost sharing requirements, managing program income, subrecipient monitoring including closeout of subrecipient, receipt of contract release and award closeout.

The team lead will also serve as the technical administrator of various sponsor systems accessed by the Post Award Team for Non-Financial Management to accomplish prior approval requests, progress report submission, vendor setup on sponsor systems, in a timely and compliant manner. This responsibility also includes role/access maintenance, user administration, and certification.

Team leaders are also responsible for exercising sound decision-making and problem-solving and for assisting in the development of administrative procedures to comply with regulations affecting governmental and industry-sponsored agreements. Team Leaders provide leadership for research administration, foster teamwork and collaboration, and demonstrate high commitment to customer service by applying skills and experience to research administration and ensuring compliance with federal, state, other sponsor, and university regulations and guidelines. The Grants and Contract Management Team Lead provides aid to all departments within OSP and acts as a liaison with the sponsor. This position may also include supervisory responsibilities.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree or a Bachelor's degree with significant relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of a Master's degree.
• Grants administration experience in a research or academic environment.
• Demonstrated accounting and budgeting experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant research administration certification such as CRA (Certified Research Administrator) or CFRA (Certified Financial Research Administrator) or completed within 6 months.
• Previous supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated leadership and independent initiative.
• Work experience with federal and non-federal grant and contract regulations.

Overtime Status

Exempt: Not eligible for overtime

Appointment Type

Regular

Salary Information

$80,000-$95,000, commensurate with experience

Hours per week

40

Review Date

October 12, 2026

Additional Information

This position is eligible for an on-site, hybrid, or remote work arrangement, which will require the completion of a telework agreement in accordance with Policy 4325, Alternative Work Site and Telework Policy. The final work arrangement will be confirmed upon hire.

The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.

About Virginia Tech

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including Blacksburg, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, sites in Newport News and Richmond, and numerous Extension offices and research institutes. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.

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