Grant Portfolio Manager

Weill Cornell Medical College • New York, NY

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About The Position

Provides centralized administrative and financial support to Weill Cornell Medicine principal investigators in managing their research portfolios (both pre- and post- award activities).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Approximately five years of related experience with grants management.
• Demonstrated proficiency with MS Office Suite and database applications, especially MS Excel.
• Demonstrated knowledge of accounting principles.
• Customer service-oriented and ability to work in a team environment.
• Emotionally intelligent and comfortable working with varied personalities.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in business, public administration, or public health highly preferred.
• Seven or more years of related experience is highly desired.
• Prior experience with federal and non-federal sponsored research regulations and policies, including pre-and post- award grant management is highly desired.
• Experience with a large variety of award mechanisms/funding instruments and sponsoring agencies is highly preferred.
• Active participant in a cross-functional administrative office setting highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assists with the preparation and development of all administrative aspects of grant applications, including but not limited to budgets and budget justifications.
• Assists principal investigators with overall formatting of proposals for submission.
• Assists principal investigators in preparation and submission of grant-related documentation, which may include supplemental materials; just-in-time documents; progress reports; advance account, no-cost extension and carryforward requests; and others.
• Maintains repository of biosketches, support pages, and facilities & other resources forms.
• Manages grant transfers for new and departing faculty.
• Researches and recommends new funding opportunities for faculty.
• Coordinates with the Office of Sponsored Research Administration for account set up.
• Verifies accuracy of budget information within the financial system.
• Performs variance analysis of budgets and expenditures and resolves discrepancies.
• Manages recruitment/start-up accounts and other discretionary accounts.
• Creates financial projections and suggests alternative spending plans to principal investigators.
• Prepares fiscal year personnel distribution reports for faculty.
• Performs salary allocations and approves purchasing and accounts payable transactions.
• Verifies grant account set-ups and audits budget/project periods information in financial systems.
• Performs subcontract set up and expense payment/tracking in conjunction with the contracts office and accounts payable.
• Facilitates all reporting requirements.
• Advises faculty when reports/invoices are due and liaises with Grants and Contracting Accounting to reconcile accounts for timely reporting.
• Contributes to administrative sections of technical reports as applicable.
• Ensures compliance of departmental research effort reporting activities.
• Processes internal paperwork for routing of research-related agreements, including but not limited to Sponsored Research Agreements, Material Transfer Agreements, Data Use Agreements, and Non-Disclosure/Confidentiality Agreements.
• Serves as liaision for the training of new staff.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees