Senior Post Award Contracts and Grants Analyst

University of California, Irvine • Irvine, CA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The UCI Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences Contract and Grants office is one of the units housed in the Office of the Dean that has a centralized Pre-awards and Post awards unit. As a central unit, staff serve the School as a whole by working with a variety of federal and non-federal sponsors. The team's mission is to serve the School's faculty by streamlining services and improving operations, supporting each other on complex and challenging tasks, and fostering professional growth by attending training, conferences and presenting on extramural research topics both on and off campus as subject experts.

Requirements

• Thorough understanding of research administration guidelines of Federal and non-Federal sponsors supporting research and educational activities, preferably in a university environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of managing fellowship awards.
• Maintains current knowledge of compliance regulations in all areas of research administration.
• Ability to perform complex financial analysis and customized reporting.
• Strong writing skills in a variety of styles to draft persuasive text for a variety of audiences while ensuring adherence to funding sponsor guidelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge of generally accepted accounting, fiscal and reporting principles.
• Ability to maintain independent judgment; strong organization and communication skills; and a customer service focus across broad and diverse subject areas.
• Ability to track institutional cost sharing.
• Demonstrated competence in the use of spreadsheet and database software in financial analysis, fiscal management and financial reports.
• Ability to manage significant volume of transactions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of effective grant funding processes, procedures and techniques.
• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• 3-5 years Contracts and Grants experience.
• Must be able to provide proof of work authorization.

Nice To Haves

• Thorough knowledge of applicable compliance requirements related to use of human or animal subjects in research, financial conflict of interest, biosafety, etc.

Responsibilities

• Uses skills as a seasoned, experienced research administrator to independently oversee extramural research awards, and transactions related to contract and grant management and maintains contract and grant records in compliance with institutional research sponsor policies.
• Works on funding of diverse scope where analysis of data requires thorough understanding of complex regulations.
• Completes and approves transactions for signature by manager or other authorized institutional official.
• Works on complex awards that may involve multiple investigators and multiple sub awards.
• Guides less experienced staff.
• Works on complex awards such as fellowship awards and cooperative agreements which require task budgets, option years, multiple investigators, multiple sub awards and cost share tracking.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• sick and vacation time
• retirement savings plans
• access to a number of discounts and perks

What This Job Offers

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