Grants Administrator, Post-Award
About The Position
The Post Award Administrator serves as the operational backbone for sponsored project administration within the School of Global Public Health (GPH). This position exists to drive the central coordination, tracking, and administrative execution of post-award lifecycles across a complex portfolio of grants and subawards. By actively managing submission timelines, subaward processing, procurement workflows, and sponsor reporting logistics, the Administrator ensures full compliance with NYU and sponsor guidelines while keeping project deliverables strictly on schedule. Operating as a key liaison among faculty, departmental teams, subrecipient institutions, and central university offices, this role streamlines day-to-day administrative operations. By managing non-financial compliance workflows, subaward setups, and Concur transaction tracking, the Administrator creates vital operational capacity—enabling Senior Post-Award Analysts to concentrate on high-level financial strategy, complex forecasting, and strategic faculty consulting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics or other analytical discipline.
- 2+ years Quantitative analytical experience, preferably in finance or accounting
- Experience working with post-award grants management including NIH and other federal or international grants.
- Ability to understand management requirements and broader processes and to frame the result of research and financial analysis in a clear and concise fashion.
- Strong quantitative and modeling skills
- Familiarity and ability to use databases, workflow systems, and presentation and standard query tool software.
- Demonstrated proficiency with intermediate to advanced level Microsoft Word and Excel
- Google Apps
- Proficient in the creation and delivery of influential presentations, delivered to an external, senior audience.
- Ability to analyze and interpret financial data.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a college or university setting.
- Familiarity with Peoplesync, UDW+,Cayuse, i-Buy, WorkDay Concur.
Responsibilities
- Manage submission timelines
- Manage subaward processing
- Manage procurement workflows
- Manage sponsor reporting logistics
- Ensure full compliance with NYU and sponsor guidelines
- Keep project deliverables strictly on schedule
- Streamline day-to-day administrative operations
- Manage non-financial compliance workflows
- Manage subaward setups
- Track Concur transactions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
