Grant Manager

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Posted: 27-Feb-24

Location: Pasadena, California

Salary: Open

Categories:

Grants Management
Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 5056115

Grant Manager
Caltech
Job Category: Fulltime Regular
Exempt Overtime Eligible: Exempt
Benefits Eligible: Benefit Based
Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions. We thrive on finding and cultivating talented people who are passionate about what they do. Join us and be a part of the diverse Caltech community.
Job Summary
Under minimal supervision from the Sponsored Research Lead in the division, the grant manager is responsible for pre-award coordination of all sponsored research applications as well as post-award support through closeout for a group of PMA faculty and their respective research groups, including reporting to the Division Chair & Division Operations Officer, thus providing a full spectrum of service to the faculty while communicating effectively with all campus areas.
Provide action-oriented and expert support to Principal Investigators (PIs), handle specific sponsored research award and audit issues with integrity. Coordinate closely with staff and management to implement and maintain policies and procedures that maximize the opportunities for support of PIs, create an environment conducive to such scholarship and assist Caltech with minimizing its compliance risks associated with sponsored research.
This role is eligible for primarily remote work, pending a remote work agreement. Ability to report to campus regularly is required.
Essential Job Duties
Sponsored Research Administration:

• Ensure timely and service-oriented pre-and post-award administration of grants, contracts, subcontracts, consortium agreements and service agreements.
• In collaboration with Sponsored Research Administration team, support the submission, review, negotiation and acceptance within short time frames with sponsor agencies and collaborating organizations to maximize research opportunities.
• In collaboration with Sponsored Research and Post-Award Administration teams, assure that PMA sponsored projects follow compliance policies for sponsored projects administration, including maintaining proper documentation to substantiate direct charges to sponsored projects.
• Maintain a positive, proactive relationship with various campus areas (Office of Sponsored Research, Project Accounting, Development, Procurement Services, Payroll Services, etc.) to ensure full grant compliance and process efficiency.
• Provide guidance in grants administration and provide training, if necessary.
• Coordinate with General Accounting, Provost's Office, Purchasing, Development, and other Caltech teams to maximize the ability of PIs to perform research efficiently.
• Demonstrate behaviors that support performance improvement activities.
• Maintain current working knowledge of federal regulations and sponsor policies to support the responsible conduct of research.
• Review and approve requests from PIs for administrative actions including pre-award costs and no cost extensions.
• Interprets and communicates policies and procedures, agency regulations, application deadlines, agency reports, award related requests, etc.
• Applies advanced skills in providing services supporting proposal development, budget analysis, expenditure tracking and funds management, evaluates and applies procedures, techniques and tools to accomplish tasks.
• Applies advanced knowledge of sponsor agency and Institute policies and practices to assignments.
• Frequently interacts with functional peer group, including the PMA Grant Management team, supervisor, PIs, and sponsors.
• Works with some complex projects including fabrications and collaborations.

Pre-Award Management:

• Counsel PIs and PMA team members on funding opportunities and strategies for the preparation of successful proposals.
• Assist PI in applying for new or continued sponsored research support.
• Prepare proposal budgets to capture valuable resources and assure compliance with agency and Caltech policies.
• Coordinate the preparation, routing and review of non-scientific portions of proposals including biosketches, budget and justification development, and identifying administrative documentation requiring review.
• Oversee routing and submission of entire application packets in accordance with PMA, Caltech and sponsor requirements and deadlines.
• Assist PIs in sponsored project award implementation. Provide all necessary award specific guidance to faculty and their respective groups on internal policies and procedures, as well as funding agency.
• compliance matters. Specific duties that are related to award implementation include award setup, subrecipient paperwork and monitoring, equipment fabrication setup, cost sharing tracking and reporting, NIH Salary Cap compliance, reporting, etc.
• Manage and update all records for proposal for PMA.
• Assists in reviewing proposals for accuracy and adherence to Institute and agency policies and requirements.
• Reviews/prepares non-scientific portions of proposal including budget development.
• Recommends corrections to proposal and budgets.
• Identifies administrative issues requiring further review.

Post-Award Management:

• Monitor and review the expenditure and budget activities associated with successful sponsored project management.
• Perform regular account reconciliation process and correct posting of expenditures to various awards.
• Prepare monthly, or more frequent as necessary, review of financial status, assuring funds are expended appropriately to maximize research opportunities over the course of the funded project.
• Manage spending of various awards to ensure that all grant expenditures are reasonable, allocable, and allowable according to OMB and agency guidelines and follow cost accounting standards.
• Prepare financial projections for principal investigators, the Division Chair and Division Operations.
• Officer. Develop and customize, if necessary, periodic (tertiary at a minimum) reports for faculty and Division Chair. Advise faculty of potential problems and provide recommendations for corrective action.
• Interact with central accounting office and Office of Sponsored Research on matters related to award closeouts.
• Perform other related job duties as assigned.
• Administers policies and procedures, agency regulations, application deadlines, agency reports, award related requests including no-cost extensions, pre-award costs, etc.
• Processes awards, including but not limited to setting up new awards, preparing and distributing award documents, etc.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 or more years of relevant work experience is required.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Exercise good judgment, diplomacy, and patience.
• Possess interpersonal skills using tact, patience, and courtesy.
• Use a computer proficiently for word processing, databases, spreadsheets and online research.
• Experience with preparing and managing budgets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with preparing grant proposals.
• Experience with analyzing, evaluating and recommending solutions to faculty on grant-related matters.
• Knowledge of federal funding administration (2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance).
• Knowledge of electronic proposal submission via agency websites (e.g., NSF Fastlane, Grants.gov, DARPA TFIMS).
• Oracle and/or Caltech experience is strongly preferred. Ability to work independently with minimal.
• supervision is desired.

Required Documents

• Resume
• CV

To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: https://hr.caltech.edu/work/job_openings
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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