Grants Manager

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🎸 Tennessee – Remote

🎸 Tennessee – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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10,000+ employees

💰 Grant on 2024-09

We are committed to excellence in patient care, biomedical research, and medical education and training. We thrive on challenges, embrace collaboration and champion innovation. We are a growing health system with 7 hospitals and hundreds of clinics throughout the Mid-South as well as one of the nation's top biomedical research programs.

📋 Description

• Provide policy guidance and assistance with all aspects of proposal development, administrative forms, sponsor-required certifications and representations, and compliance requirements • Develop an appropriate budget, Principal Investigator checklist, and timeline for each proposal submission • Work directly with the Principal Investigators & external collaborators, and interface with central administrative offices to ensure that applications meet all university, school, and sponsor requirements • Identify and resolve issues during the proposal preparation and submission process • Ensure school-level approvals are included in proposal attachments • Facilitate application submission, ensuring deadlines are met • Respond to sponsor requests and questions • Analyze and interpret complex grants and contract specifications, guidelines, and regulations • Act as a liaison with central administrative offices and external entities to facilitate award management • Monitor, analyze, and manage budgets and expenditures along with all aspects of the award to ensure compliance with sponsor terms and conditions, Uniform Guidelines, and University policies • Create budget reconciliation and forecasting reports and meet regularly with faculty to review their financial situations • Ensure compliance with requirements such as effort reporting and financial & progress reporting • Collaborate with sponsors for appropriate prior approval requests, extensions, budget revisions, and general questions • Facilitate the setup of outgoing subaward agreements and manage invoice approvals • Work closely with the central administrative office to coordinate reviews of incoming contract agreements • Provide interim account setups and courtesy extensions as required • Serve as Human Capital Management (HCM) Costing Specialist, managing payroll • Complete timely journal entries as necessary, grant closeouts, etc.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in finance, accounting, business, or a related field • 3+ years of experience in pre- and post-award management (both federal and non-federal), required; a combination of education and experience may be considered • Strong administrative support skills • Excellent organizational and time management skills • Excellent written and verbal skills • Outstanding attention to detail • Problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines • Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills • Experience working with faculty on complex awards and familiarity with a variety of sponsors • Advanced understanding of research compliance and sponsor-specific regulations

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Professional development