Sr. Grants and Contracts Analyst (School of Government and Policy)
About The Position
The Sr. Grants and Contracts Analyst provides dedicated professional sponsored-funds management for more than 80% of the role, with responsibility for pre-award and post-award functions. Duties include proposal preparation and submission, budget development, account maintenance and oversight, billing and invoicing, reporting, compliance, and closeout. The analyst independently manages grants, contracts, and awards ranging from moderately to highly complex. These may involve detailed budgets, multiple projects, cores and subawards, investigator-initiated projects, consortiums, Department of Defense requirements, complex foundation grants, and pharmaceutical-company-sponsored clinical trials. The role may assist with non-sponsored funds, but its primary focus is timely, effective, and efficient management of sponsored funding.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree.
- Four years of related experience in sponsored research and/or financial positions.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma or equivalent, as permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
- Successful completion of the Research Administration Training Program (13–15 months) is equivalent to two years of relevant experience for this position; if the program is not successfully completed, no additional experience will be applied.
- Knowledge of external federal guidelines and procedures for grants and contracts, including NIH, NSF, DOD, and NASA.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in an academic or medical setting.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and direct complex award-management activities, including monitoring and managing accounts, audits, evaluations, and reporting.
- Partner with faculty and budgetary staff, and serve as a final point of contact with the Office of Research Administration, on planning and developing submissions to federal agencies, private agencies and foundations, and commercial companies.
- Understand and ensure compliance with institutional pre-award policies and sponsor guidelines.
- Review assigned faculty's sponsored-project proposals before forwarding them to the Grants & Contracts Manager and/or Office of Research Administration for signature; ensure accuracy and adherence to relevant guidelines.
- Prepare budgets in a timely manner for principal investigator review.
- Serve as a liaison between research units, central offices, and funding agencies.
- Review budgets and related justifications for appropriateness and completeness.
- Provide groundwork for subcontract negotiations.
- Ensure compliance with grant and contract requirements, including sponsor guidelines, internal protocols, accurate protocol information in grant documents, and conflict-of-interest requirements.
- Maintain updates and communications about current awards, including regular audits and financial-status reporting to principal investigators and, as needed, departmental leadership.
- Manage post-award processes, including award setup, review, account-setup verification, and ensuring staff are appropriately set up.
- Complete post-award responsibilities, including budget distribution, account reconciliation, e-form setup, effort reporting, cost transfers, invoice payments, and finalization of subcontract-setup paperwork.
- Provide information and assistance as needed to complete closeouts.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
