Strategic Grants & Contracts Officer (Hybrid/Remote)

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science; North Chicago (IL); Hybride; USD 75 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Paid parental leave

Disability plans

403(b) retirement plan with 8% company

Résumé du poste

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is seeking a full-time Grants and Contracts Officer to manage pre- and post-award activities and research accounting for sponsored projects.

You will assist investigators in proposal review, ensure compliance with sponsor and university requirements, and coordinate budget and financial reporting with external auditors and funding agencies. Hybrid or remote work arrangements may be available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting or related field.
• At least five years of work experience in pre-award, post-award and grants management in a sponsored research administration setting.
• Complete working knowledge of GAAP, regulations, laws, policies and procedures related to research administration.

Responsabilités

• Provide assistance and guidance to faculty and departmental administrators, in a collegial and collaborative manner, during the lifecycle of an award and assure adherence to university and agency procedures and requirements.
• Respond to inquiries from investigators, administrators and funding agencies.
• Provide support to investigators in proposal review and submission and other correspondence with sponsors.
• Serve as a resource to investigators in identifying funding opportunities through the SPINPlus subscription system and finding proposal information in the Grants.gov system.
• Assist faculty in the process of submitting proposals electronically to Grants.gov using the InfoEd System to System.
• Identify problem areas such as cost sharing, IRB, ACUC, Significant Conflict of Interest and Effort Time requirements before submission of proposals and during post-award administration.
• Be responsible for reconciling the general ledger with NIH Federal Financial Reports and with other sponsors financial statements, for withdrawing funds from sponsors.
• Review awards budgets and rebudget accounts as needed, assuring that correct indirect costs are posted to sponsored accounts.
• Manage the review of cash flows, A/R, and quarterly reports across research awards. Manage the process of invoices and collection of all grants and contracts revenue.
• Monitor and approve personnel action forms to assure adherence to grant commitments.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate balances of accounts, working with Research Coordinators and PIs in avoiding future overdrafts or clearing overdrafts.
• Perform all aspects of post award financial management of sponsored projects including financial reporting, monitoring expenditures and processing reimbursement documents adhering to sponsoring agency deadlines.
• Maintain continuing liaison with funding agencies contract officers.
• Stay informed of changes in sponsor regulations, requirements and policies and disseminate sponsor information as needed.
• Prepare salary distribution and effort certification reports verifying that effort commitments are accurately reported in effort certification reports
• Assist Assistant Director OSR, Associate VP for Research Administration/Director OSR and Vice President for Research (VPR) in the development of new policies and revisions of existing policies
• Back up support for Assistant Director OSR and Associate VP for Research Administration/Director OSR when they are absent, such as providing approval for post-award documents and endorsing proposals.
• Perform other related job duties as assigned and/or delegated.

Connaissances

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

GAAP knowledge

Formation

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting or related field

MBA or MS preferred

Outils

Microsoft Word

Excel

InfoEd

Grants.gov

Access

Oracle

Zoom

Description du poste

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is seeking a full-time Grants and Contracts Officer to manage pre- and post-award activities and research accounting for sponsored projects.

You will assist investigators in proposal review, ensure compliance with sponsor and university requirements, and coordinate budget and financial reporting with external auditors and funding agencies. Hybrid or remote work arrangements may be available.