Research Administrator, Pre-Award Lead-School of Medicine

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Reporting to the Research Administration Services (RAS) unit leadership leads and in some instances supervises a cohort of staff performing pre-award activities for the sponsored projects research portfolio for their assigned department division and/or school.
• Provides guidance to team members as appropriate.
• Monitors workload distribution and redistributes tasks as assigned by Pre-Award Manager.
• Mentors staff for professional development.
• Understands and applies federal and university rules to management of effort allocation for individuals compensated whole or in part from federal awards.
• Applies costing rules and regulations to federally funded projects.
• Analyzes information and formulates conclusions.
• Ensures strong levels of customer service to faculty and departments being served.
• Escalates issues that violate performance levels or terms of the RAS performance level agreements both with internal RAS staff and with departments and/or faculty.
• Provides back-up to the Pre-Award Manager.
• Assists the Pre-Award Manager with developing and conducting trainings as well as creating and updating resources and job aids.
• Performs proposal reviews during routing in addition to holding a portfolio.
• Performs pre-award activities to include developing a budget compiling proposal contents routing proposals through internal systems and processes assisting PIs in submission of JIT information interacting with OSP and assisting in the preparation of sub-recipient documents and relationships with other partners on proposals.
• Manages weekly award setup status reviews and updates monitoring awards in progress to ensure timely progression through the process.
• Provides general support to the team in a lead capacity answering questions providing resources explaining complex scenarios etc.
• Cross trains in post-award functions to help develop smooth handoffs between pre- and related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree and five years of grants and contracts work-related experience OR an equivalent combination of education training and experience.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Knowledge of federal rules and regulations relating to research grant and/or contract activity with specific deep understanding of the award proposal processes for multiple sponsoring bodies.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite software.

NOTE: Tasks related to this position can be performed remotely with only occasional visits to an Emory University location. Eastern (EST) time zone business hours may apply. Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee. Emory does not approve as a primary work location in the following states; NJ AK and HI any U.S. Territories or outside of the United States.

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