Senior Portfolio Administrator
Cushman & Wakefield
Research Administrator, Pre-Award Manager
Emory University
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Reporting to the Research Administration Services (RAS) Director, leads and supervises all staff performing pre-award activities for the sponsored projects research portfolio for their assigned department, division or school.
- Monitors workload distribution and redistributes tasks, as appropriate.
- Provides guidance to team members, as appropriate.
- Mentors staff for professional development.
- May perform post-award activities in support of the RAS unit.
- Understands and applies federal and university rules to management of effort allocation for individuals compensated whole or in part from federal awards.
- Applies costing rules and regulations to federally funded projects.
- Analyzes information and formulates conclusions.
- Ensures strong levels of customer service to faculty and departments being served.
- Addresses issues that violate performance levels or terms of the RAS performance level agreements, both with internal RAS staff and with departments and/or faculty.
- Performs pre-award activities to include developing a budget, compiling proposal contents, entering proposal into EPEX, assisting PIs in submission of JIT forms, preparing CAS exceptions for approval, interacting with OSP and assisting in the preparation of sub-award documents and relationships with other partners on a project.
- Prepares high-quality written reports.
- Works with Post-Award team lead to coordinate inter-team meetings to facilitate collaboration between the pre-award and post-award teams.
- Performs related responsibilities as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and five years work-related grants and contracts experience OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Supervisory experience preferred.
- Knowledge of federal rules and regulations relating to research grant and/or contract activity, with specific deep understanding of the award proposal processes for multiple sponsoring bodies.
- Proficiency with MS Office Suite software.
Benefits
- Remote Work Classification: Full Remote
- Health and Safety Information Not Applicable
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
grants managementcontract managementbudget developmentproposal writingcosting rulesfederal regulationseffort allocationdata analysisreport writing
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcustomer serviceteam collaborationproblem-solving
