Grant Manager

Details

Posted: 18-Mar-24

Location: Lawrence, Kansas

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 4911759

This position encompasses a wide range of activities related to overall compliance with university and federal policies and procedures for sponsored project payroll and sponsorship, as well as research administration compliance programs including effort certification, subrecipient monitoring and program audit.
This position shares responsibility for and oversees auditing of payroll transactions for sponsored project-funded personnel at the University of Kansas. This position also shares responsibility for and oversees processing of retroactive fund adjustments (RFAs) and serves as a liaison for payroll related questions and problems. In addition to payroll keying audit and payroll exception oversight, this position also encompasses a variety of sponsored project administration such as oversight of tuition and fellowship sponsorship process and reimbursements to KU.
The incumbent shares responsibility for and oversees effort certification program, including serving as a subject matter expert and functional administrator for eCRT, an enterprise reporting system. This position works closely with Research Systems administrator and acts as a liaison with university IT or other electronic system representatives for trouble shooting or other technical aspects of administering the eCRT system or other payroll activity. Additional effort certification program management responsibilities include training of university effort coordinators and certifiers, ensuring effort reporting processes are available and current and working with Assistant Vice Chancellor to identify and address inconsistencies and/or risks of non-compliance.
The incumbent shares responsibility for and oversees subrecipient monitoring program, including serving as a subject matter expert for single audit and assisting with continual improvement in subrecipient monitoring processes and procedures. This position will work closely with Office of Research units to ensure subrecipient monitoring processes and activity are in compliance with Uniform Guidance and meet best practices for ensuring compliance. The incumbent for this position is expected to work congenially and cooperatively under extreme pressure and tight deadlines. The incumbent will work closely with Associate Directors of Research Administration, Pre-Award Services, Contract Negotiations, Award Management Services, Post Award Services, other Office of Research staff, and university personnel regarding payroll and effort, audit and reporting, related electronics systems, and overall administrative compliance issues. The incumbent will serve as a subject matter expert to represent Office of Research on these topics for various university initiatives as directed by the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Research.