Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist - Central Grants & Contracts Office

Mount Sinai Health System • New York, NY

4d • $65,885 - $112,476

About The Position

This individual serves as a Grant or Contract reviewer for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/ Mount Sinai Health System. Interacts with the faculty, departmental administrators, finance and institutional compliance committees on all Sponsored Programs and research programs. Represent the Institution to non-profit funding agencies and federal government officials. This position reports to the Director of Grants and Contracts within the Central Grants & Contracts Office.

Requirements

• Bachelors or equivalent combination of education and related work experience
• Six years of related experience.
• A thorough knowledge of grants and contracts administration at a level generally acquired through experience working in a central grants and contracts office

Nice To Haves

• NCURA or SRA certification is preferred
• completion of NCURA Sponsored Programs Administration levels I & II are strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review approximately six hundred grant applications per year for all pre-award financial and administrative policies on behalf of Institutions central business office.
• Interact with departmental administrators, faculty and extramural funding agencies (Federal, NY State, non-profit etc.) to enforce needed corrections prior to institutional endorsement. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Responsible for correct compliance characterization of the above applications and routing to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Review Board, Bio-Safety Officer and Financial Conflict of Interest in Research Committee. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Review and provide Just-In-Time, supplemental and amended information to extramural sponsors on above applications. The need for significant oversight and training in this area is expected.
• Routine data entry and maintenance of data for all non-federal sponsorship in InfoEd system

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level