Specialist, Contract & Grant Senior - (180000HN) The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), Institute for Global Health (IGH) is currently recruiting for a Senior Contract and Grant Specialist . The Senior Contract and Grant Specialist will establish and maintain effective working relationships with faculty, administrators, staff, and students to provide the highest level of post-award management for sponsor and non-sponsored related funds. The Senior Contract and Grant Specialist is also responsible for conceptualizing, developing, and providing ongoing training and education to the University of Maryland, Baltimore research community to increase institutional knowledge related to grants and contracts. The position will require working directly with our pre-award team in developing budgets and terminology for new proposals. Manages post-award stage at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Identifies, develops, and implements procedures/practices to ensure research administration goals and objectives are met while complying with University, federal, state, and sponsor rules and regulations.
Benefits Information
UMB offers a generous benefits package that includes 22 vacation days, 14 floating and holidays, 15 sick days; comprehensive health insurance and retirement options; and tuition remission for employees and their dependents at any of the University System of Maryland schools.
Essential Functions
Proposal Preparation:
- Reviews and interprets funding agency guidelines and regulations and advises faculty as to policies and procedures of those agencies as well as those of the state and University.
- Leads faculty in budget development and planning, advising on determination and computation of appropriate salary levels, percentages of effort, fringe benefit rates, and indirect cost rate and base.
- Coordinates the proposal development activity to plan, manage, and track milestones and ensure internal and external deadlines are met.
- Oversees the contractual process of sponsored awards with both Sponsored Programs Administration/Sponsored Programs Accounting and Compliance and external sponsors for faculty.
Post Award Administration:
- Serves as primary point of contact between University and sponsoring agencies, and between faculty and University administration matters and study related issues related to the sponsored project.
- Provide expertise to faculty in interpreting award terms and conditions and maintaining best financial practices to assure compliance with sponsor requirements, university policies and procedures, and relevant laws and regulations.
- Responsible for insuring faculty maintain proper spending of research funding.
- Reviews and analyzes data to solve complex sponsored research problems; develops and implements updates to workflow, practices, and procedures; prepares reports and summaries on research funding. Interprets data for the purpose of determining past financial performance to develop and prepare financial reports for financial analysis, forecasting, and trending.
- Devises financial reporting tools and reports.
- Oversees contract and grant budget and authorizes establishment of funds.
- Reviews and maintain documentation related to cost transfers, requests for expenditures, effort reporting, budget revisions, and fund statements.
- Oversee invoicing, accounts receivable, and deposits in the financial system and ensures payments are applied correctly.
- Performs continuous monitoring of project, drafts requests to funding agency for revisions in terms and conditions.
Business Unit Operations:
- Ensures overall optimum unit efficiency and compliance with appropriate policies, procedures, and specifications.
- Works closely with sponsors and leadership to develop shared business processes in order to streamline operations. I
- Increase and promote institutional knowledge related to research grants and contracts administration and management and remain current with industry-wide grants management trends/regulations.
- Implements changes to UMB policies and procedures to incorporate research administration updates.
- Position will act as a liaison with campus Sponsored Programs Administration, Clinical Trials and Corporate Contracts, and Sponsored Projects Accounting and Compliance teams to ensure projects are set up and closed out accurately and in a timely manner.
- Interacts directly with designation sponsor representatives to clarify ambiguous terms and conditions, and to request supplemental funding, no cost extensions, and other administrative requests.
- Performs other related duties and special projects as assigned.
Qualifications Education: Bachelors business or public administration or another appropriate field, such as Project Management, Accounting or Finance.
Experience: Five (5) years of Post Award experience and a working knowledge of the budget and proposal process.
Supervisory: n/a
Licensure/Certification: n/a
Other: No substitution of experience for minimum education requirement.
Financial Disclosure is required.
Hiring Range: Commensurate with education and experience
If accommodations are needed for a disability, please contact Staffing & Career Services at 410-706-2606, Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm EST. Maryland Relay can be accessed by dialing 711 (in-state) or 1-800-735-2258.
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Job: Reg or CII Exempt Staff - E1434F Employee Class : Exempt Regular Full Time/Part Time: Full-Time Shift: Day Job Financial Disclosure: Yes Organization: School of Medicine - Center for Vaccine Development Job Posting: Feb 7, 2019 Unposting Date: Ongoing | | |
