Associate Director of Grants Management - Office of Research and Grants
Associate Director of Grants Management - Office of Research and Grants
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Job Description
APU seeks employees who desire to contribute to our thriving culture by cultivating community through professional interactions demonstrating a posture of lifelong learning and modeling Christlike character. Working together employees at APU commit to establishing a university atmosphere that is edifying to God and one another.
The Associate Director of Grants Management is responsible for postaward monitoring to ensure proper stewardship of external funds received by the university from private and public funding sources for sponsored research and academic initiatives. The Associate Director reports to the Vice Provost for Academic Services and works closely with the director of Sponsored Research who oversees preaward grant endeavors. This position is fulltime in person at the Azusa campus.
Required Education
- Bachelors degree Masters preferred.
Required Experience
- Five to seven years of experience in grants management.
- Record of significant experience in managing expenditures for grantfunded programs.
- Experience in postaward monitoring both program and fiscal.
- Experience in developing budgets budget modifications and preparing program and fiscal reports.
- Knowledge of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) policies and procedures related to financial management recordkeeping purchasing and other postaward activities; special emphasis on OMB 2 Part 200 Uniform Guidance.
Primary Duties/Essential Functions
- Ensure the university is in full compliance with university policy and funding source requirements for external private and public grants awarded for sponsored research and academic initiatives.
- Work with principal investigators project directors and key university personnel on funded private and public grant projects to ensure fiscal and program guidelines are being followed.
- Develop contacts with program and fiscal officers to clarify guidelines procedures and modification requests.
- Serve as a liaison between the principal investigator/project director and the sponsoring agency and between the principal investigator/project director and other offices at APU handling sponsored grant project documents. APU offices include but are not limited to University Advancement Human Resources
- Student Financial Services Payroll and the Business Office.
- Manage the involvement of the Grant Accountant (housed in the Business Office) in the postaward process.
- Monitor and request approval for changes in awards.
- Track grant reporting timelines and meet with principal investigators project directors key personnel and administrators to ensure timely reports are filed.
- Advise University Advancement of communications with private funders for institutional historical record in Raisers Edge.
- Develop an orientation and training program for all APU departments handling grant project documents and records.
- Prepare a PostAward Manual including APU and OMB guidelines for managing and monitoring program and fiscal requirements for private and publicly funded grants.
- Host stewardship meetings for each funded grant for principal investigators project directors key personnel and APU offices and departments.
Skills
- Ability to work with staff faculty and administrators in team settings.
- Strategic thinking and planning.
- Strong analytic and computational abilities.
- Ability to develop and work with complex numerical spreadsheets.
- Ability to sustain multiple projects simultaneously.
- Interacts well with colleagues at multiple levels and in many disciplines.
Mental Demands
- Ability to integrate Christian values in all aspects of the position.
- Ability to engage in critical thinking and exercise independent judgment.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage confidential information.
- Selfstarter with the ability to communicate effectively in written and oral form.
Physical Demands
- Perform repetitive motion while sitting at a computer keyboard for a protracted time.
- Hear and speak on the telephone.
- Walk and/or drive to various university locations to attend meetings.
- Pull push bend grasp and reach and lift up to 20 lbs.
Visual Demands
- Read off of computer monitors and paper documents.
Environment
- Pleasant office comfortable temperatures.
Technologies
- Proficient in Google Apps. Microsoft Office Word and Excel.
- Able to adapt to and proficiently use other thirdparty software systems the Office of Research and Grants has a license to use.
Compensation
- Grade 14: $73724 to $84783 is the annual salary for this role and reflects what Azusa Pacific University reasonably expects to pay for this position. Actual compensation may vary based on the qualifications experience and internal equity. In addition to compensation APU offers a competitive benefits package.
Azusa Pacific University is a Christcentered multicultural community that values and seeks faculty and staff who are committed to diversity work effectively with diverse populations and engage others in ways that honor our rich cultural mosaic and biblical foundation. Please click the links to learn more aboutwhat we believe our mission statement and our statement of faith.
You can learn more about APU by watching the stories of faculty staff and alumni as they carry out our mission here: Pacific University will conduct a background check on all final candidates.
Review of applications will begin immediately and the position will remain open until filled unless otherwise stated. Azusa Pacific University does not discriminate on the basis of race color national origin sex age disability or status as a veteran in any of its policies practices or procedures. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
