Sr. Grant & Fund Manager

UCLA Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

UCLA Health in Los Angeles, CA seeks a Senior Grant and Fund Manager to oversee complex extramural funding portfolios within the Department of Radiological Sciences. You will ensure compliant management of all contract and grant activities and partner with investigators to advance research priorities.

Responsibilities include leading grant proposal preparation, post-award administration, budget development and financial projections, and ensuring adherence to UC, federal, and sponsor

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of contract and grant administration knowledge and proposals systems.
• 4-5 years of financial analysis, budgeting and administration for complex funding sources.
• Knowledge of cost accounting standards, NIH policies, and 45CFR46 human subjects protections.
• Ability to work efficiently and accurately with grant-related tasks.
• Experience interpreting funding agency requirements and policies.

Responsibilities

• Provides pre‑ and post‑award support to Principal Investigators for extramurally funded projects.
• Leads preparation, review, and submission of grant proposals per UC and sponsor policies.
• Oversees award administration, including budget development, financial monitoring, projections, and reconciliation.
• Ensures compliance with UC, federal, state, and sponsor regulations, policies, and reporting requirements.
• Serves as a primary resource to faculty and staff on grant administration, funding strategy, and policy interpretation.
• Maintains high‑quality service, accuracy, and timeliness across all contract and grant activities.

Skills

Grant management

Budget analysis

Pre/post award

OMB Circulars

NIH policy

Cost accounting

Expenditure audit

Excel

Microsoft Word

Contract compliance

Proposal submission

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

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Work Schedule

Monday through Friday; 8:00am - 5:00pm

Posted Date

10/14/2026

Salary Range: $6203.75 - 12705.00 Monthly

Employment Type

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

33305

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Senior Grant and Fund Manager provides advanced research administration support within the Department of Radiological Sciences, overseeing complex extramural funding portfolios and ensuring seamless, compliant management of all contract and grant activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides comprehensive pre‑and post‑award support to Principal Investigators for extramurally funded research projects.
  
• Leads the preparation, review, and submission of grant proposals in accordance with UC and sponsor policies.
  
• Oversees award administration, including budget development, financial monitoring, projections, and reconciliation.
  
• Ensures compliance with UC, federal, state, and sponsor regulations, policies, and reporting requirements.
  
• Serves as a primary resource to faculty and staff on grant administration, funding strategy, and policy interpretation.
  
• Maintains high‑quality service, accuracy, and timeliness across all contract and grant activities.
  

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• 4-5 years of knowledge of contract and grant administration guidelines and various funding agency online proposal submission systems
  
• 4-5 years of demonstrative skill in financial analysis, planning, preparation and administration for a budget with multiple complex funding sources.
  
• 4-5 years of keen knowledge of cost accounting standards, the guiding OMB circulars for institutions of higher education, NIH Grants Policy, and federal regulation 45CFR46 on the protections of human subjects participating in researchAbility to work efficiently and complete tasks with a high degree of accuracy.
  
• Experience interpreting and applying various funding agencies' technical requirements and procedures.laboratory situations
  
• Write precise, well organized, and grammatically correct documents
  
• Demonstrated ability to audit expenditures and assure that they conform to policies and guidelines
  
• Skill in performing complex accounting transactions.
  
• Skills in utilizing a PC to prepare work using Excel and Microsoft Word

• 4-5 years of knowledge of contract and grant administration guidelines and various funding agency online proposal submission systems
  
• 4-5 years of demonstrative skill in financial analysis, planning, preparation and administration for a budget with multiple complex funding sources.
  
• 4-5 years of keen knowledge of cost accounting standards, the guiding OMB circulars for institutions of higher education, NIH Grants Policy, and federal regulation 45CFR46 on the protections of human subjects participating in researchAbility to work efficiently and complete tasks with a high degree of accuracy.
  
• Experience interpreting and applying various funding agencies' technical requirements and procedures.laboratory situations
  
• Write precise, well organized, and grammatically correct documents
  
• Demonstrated ability to audit expenditures and assure that they conform to policies and guidelines
  
• Skill in performing complex accounting transactions.
  
• Skills in utilizing a PC to prepare work using Excel and Microsoft Word

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
• Knowledge of University administrative units and their services, role and responsibilities and ability to contact them appropriately to obtain needed information
  
• Working knowledge of University forms, policies and procedures in areas of contracts and grants, accounting, purchasing, personnel and payroll

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer. Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.