Emory University

Research Administrator – Pre-Award Lead

Emory University

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Reporting to the Research Administration Services (RAS) unit leadership, leads, and in some instances supervises, a cohort of staff performing pre-award activities for the sponsored projects research portfolio for their assigned department, division, and/or school.
  • Provides guidance to team members, as appropriate.
  • Monitors workload distribution and redistributes tasks, as assigned by Pre-Award Manager.
  • Mentors staff for professional development.
  • 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.
  • Escalates issues that violate performance levels or terms of the RAS performance level agreements, both with internal RAS staff and with departments and/or faculty.
  • Provides back-up to the Pre-Award Manager.
  • Assists the Pre-Award Manager with developing and conducting trainings, as well as creating and updating resources and job aids.
  • Performs proposal reviews during routing, in addition to holding a portfolio.
  • Performs pre-award activities to include developing a budget, compiling proposal contents, routing proposals through internal systems and processes, assisting PIs in submission of JIT information, interacting with OSP and assisting in the preparation of sub-recipient documents and relationships with other partners on proposals.
  • Manages weekly award setup status reviews and updates, monitoring awards in progress to ensure timely progression through the process.
  • Provides general support to the team in a lead capacity, answering questions, providing resources, explaining complex scenarios, etc.
  • Cross trains in post-award functions to help develop smooth handoffs between pre- and post-award.
  • Performs related responsibilities as required.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and five years of grants and contracts work-related 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
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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