Senior Grants & Contracts Lead, Research Administration

Cedars-Sinai; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cedars-Sinai is seeking a Senior Grant & Contract Officer to work within the centralized Office of Research Administration. The role handles complex pre- and post-award management for Principal Investigators, including research awards and clinical trials, supporting the strategic vision of translational and clinical research.

Responsibilities include negotiating budgets and contract terms, ensuring compliance with agency requirements, coordinating with Legal Affairs, and training ORA staff to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, Sciences, or Liberal Arts.
• Experience administering research grants and contracts in a central office.
• Knowledge of grantor policies (NIH, not-for-profit foundations) and related systems.

Responsibilities

• Represent Cedars-Sinai with minimal direction in negotiations of budgets and contract elements.
• Monitor transactions to ensure adherence to institutional and agency policies.
• Identify costs, including indirect costs, to support budget justification.
• Prepare proposals, contracts, and sponsor reporting using grants systems.
• Train staff and participate in ORA quality initiatives.

Skills

Grant management

Budget administration

Contract negotiation

OMB policies

NIH policies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

OnCore

Grants.gov

Proposal Central

NIH eRA Commons

NSF FastLane

Job description

Job Description

Come join our team!

The Senior Grant & Contract Officer (SGCO) works within the centralized Office of Research Administration (ORA) and handles complex research studies. They compose accurate and comprehensive pre- and post-award management services for Principal Investigators (PI) involving research awards and clinical trials. This contributes to the strategic vision to invent outstanding translational and clinical research in a dynamic medical education setting.

Principal Responsibilities:

Represents CSHS with minimal direction in routine and sometimes complex negotiations of the budget and in other contractual elements binding the institution. May work closely with Legal Affairs and Risk Management attorneys to ensures that the agreed upon conditions adequately meet PI and CSHS requirements.

Connect with assigned PIs and departments (typically those most sophisticated projects) regarding any developments, according to their professional judgments, that requires administrative action to ensure compliance of agency requirements.

On an ongoing basis monitors transactions on the account for adherence to the policies of CSHS and the granting agency.

Identifies appropriate costs, including medical center and indirect costs, in order to maximize budget justification strategies.

Responsible for closeout of awards as required by CSHS and agency policies to ensures that records are maintained in the Archive File as required by the funding agency and CSHS.

Understands and applies systems that are not limited to accounting, grant processing, purchasing, human resources, and data systems to assist in the preparation and submission of proposals, contracts, and sponsor reporting.

Uses and is proficient in OnCore, Grants.gov, Proposal Central, NIH eRA Commons, and NSF Fastlane in order to conduct in-service training and seminars for PIs and their staff.

Uses professional abilities to recommend new policies and/or changes to existing policies whenever vital.

Participates in and may lead ORA performance improvement, quality assurance processes, or other projects as needed to keep CSHS a premier research institute and destination for world renowned research scientists.

Trains the grant & contract officers to advance the teams education and proficiency.

Build relationships, set expectations, and interact with the CSHS research community. Act as a liaison for ORA’s internal clients to create collaborative and efficient research processes that result in successful proposals without conflicts of interest.

Qualifications

Education, Experience & Skills Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Sciences, or Liberal Arts required
• Four (4) years of Independent administration of research grants and contracts in a central administration office or the equivalent.
• Experience with the rules and processes of granting agencies as well as the institutional purchasing, personnel and accounting systems, required.
• Knowledge of grantor policies and procedures, the National Institutes of Health, and major not-for-profit foundations. Familiar with OMB Circulars A-110, A-133, A-21 and/or OASC-3. Understand basic principles of Medicare Coverage Analysis for budget preparation and Payment Schedules terms within research agreements.
• Ability to demonstrates problem solving skills and recommends solutions.
• Quality - Ability to provide and/or support a level of work excellence and accuracy; recognize and address flaws or errors that others may overlook.
• Time Management - Ability to handle multiple demands and/or lead sophisticated and contending priorities.