Remote Grants & Contracts: Pre-Award Specialist

University of Minnesota; United States; Remote; USD 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages and holidays

Generous time off

Tuition assistance (Regents Tuition)

Job summary

The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis is seeking a Grants & Contracts Professional 2 to support the Medical School Dean's Office, Pre-Award team. You will assist with proposal development, manage timelines, and help prepare budgets and biosketches for internal and external submissions, aligning processes with large grant programs.

Work is 100% remote with a Civil Service classification; salary ranges from $31.25 to $36.06 per hour, reflecting education, experience, and equity

Qualifications

• BA or BS with at least 2 years of professional experience performing scientific, administrative, budgetary, grant duties.
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously work on multiple projects with fixed deadlines and ability to re-prioritize tasks as needed to successfully meet all deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Support Medical School grant submissions for Departments, Centers and Institutes that require pre-award support for successful grant submissions.
• Understand and communicate upcoming sponsor changes, internal pre-award system implementations, and necessary information related to University restrictions and compliance.
• Create a timeline and checklist of items needed for each proposal as necessary and communicate these to P.I.
• Create PRF and ensure grant budgets for all proposals submitted through the University that involve the resources, space, faculty, or staff from Medical School are accurate.
• Serve as a resource in grant preparation components such as assembling applicable publications, current grant listings, curriculum vitae/biosketches and other materials used in proposal packages.
• Ensure all proposal submissions are complete and in compliance with agency and University guidelines and instructions.
• Work with SPA and PI to review terms of pending award for acceptability.
• Collect documentation to support large scale/complex grant submissions including but not limited to biosketches, other supporting documents, and letters of support.
• Review templates/job aids and provide feedback to team to make processes more efficient

Skills

Multi-project management

Prioritization

Education

BA or BS degree

Tools

Grants.gov

ProposalCentral

NIH RePORTER

Job description

The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis is seeking a Grants & Contracts Professional 2 to support the Medical School Dean's Office, Pre-Award team. You will assist with proposal development, manage timelines, and help prepare budgets and biosketches for internal and external submissions, aligning processes with large grant programs.

Work is 100% remote with a Civil Service classification; salary ranges from $31.25 to $36.06 per hour, reflecting education, experience, and equity