[Hiring] Grants and Contracts Manager @Duke Careers

Role Description

Lead a team of Administrators to support complex grants and contracts that drive impactful research and meaningful outcomes.

This position will be located within the School of Medicine Shared Research Administration Resource (RASR) Group and will play an active role in working with specifically identified departments to manage their portfolio of grants and contracts.

• Coordinate and/or perform pre-award and/or post-award activities for a unit (school, department, division, institute, or center) that has a large, complex, and/or diverse portfolio of grants and contracts.
• Pre-award activities include broad duties in preparation and submission of grant and contract proposals.
• Ensures all applications meet agency and university guidelines and published time tables and deadlines.
• Ensures proposals are entered and routed in a timely manner for further review.
• Post-award activities include detailed reconciliation of assigned project budget, including determination of allocability and allowability of charges; preparing and analyzing budget reports, and developing budget projections.
• Adjusting and correcting assigned project budgets to meet project goals and federal requirements, providing assistance and oversight to effort management of specified project portfolio.
• This position is responsible for a specified highly complex grants and contracts portfolio using discretion and independent judgment to make decisions that impact the compliance and successful completion of grant and contract objectives.
• This position is expected to manage a mid-sized unit (school, department, division, institute, or center) with a well-defined grant and contract portfolio.
• This position functions as a manager and/or facilitator of large projects, such as grants and contracts that span across multiple disciplines and faculty.

Qualifications

• Certified Research Administrator preferred.
• Supervisory experience of a team in an academic institution is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated Federal Sponsor/Funding experience strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Work requires communications, analytical and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program. Research or grants education and/or certification is preferred.
• Successful completion of the Research Administration Academy (RAA) and Advanced Grants Management is required.
• Successful completion of Financial Services Introduction to R3, Introduction to Duke GL, Introduction to Accounting, Sponsored Research Reporting, Research Administration at Duke (on-line), Basic Compliance (on-line) within first six months of hire is required.
• Work generally requires three (3) years of relevant grants and contracts experience.

Benefits

• Duke University provides an annual base salary range for this position as USD $67,732.00 to USD $116,282.00.
• Duke provides comprehensive and competitive medical and dental care programs, generous retirement benefits, and a wide array of family-friendly and cultural programs to eligible team members.