Post-Award Grant Specialist; Senior or Principal Professional

Department:
Ophthalmology

Job Title:

Post-Award Grant Specialist (Senior or Principal Professional)

Position #  – Requisition # 41406

The Department of Ophthalmology is seeking a Post-Award Grant Specialist to support the financial and administrative management of its sponsored research portfolio, including federal, foundation, industry, and other externally funded projects. Reporting to the Program Manager of Research Finance and Administration, this position partners closely with Principal Investigators (PIs), research staff, and university offices to manage awards from award setup through closeout.

The position is responsible for budget monitoring and forecasting, financial reconciliation, expenditure review, payroll, and funding transactions, subaward administration, sponsor invoicing and reporting support, award modifications, and maintaining accurate and compliant award records.

Senior Professional

• Manage a portfolio of sponsored projects from award setup through closeout in collaboration with the Program Manager and PIs.
• Monitor award budgets, expenditures, revenue, commitments, and projected balances; prepare financial reconciliations, forecasts, and budget variance analyses.
• Review expenditures for allowability, allocability, reasonableness, and compliance with sponsor requirements, University policies, and applicable federal regulations.
• Process and monitor financial transactions including funding distributions, Journal Entries (JEs), Payroll Expense Transfers (PETs), procurement, travel, invoices, and other award-related expenditures.
• Coordinate award actions including rebudgeting, carry forward, no-cost extensions, amendments, funding changes, and closeout activities.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and audit-ready award documentation.
• Provide responsive, solutions-oriented support to the Program Manager and research teams regarding sponsored project financial management.
• Extract, analyze, and validate financial and award information using institutional research administration and financial systems.
• Support Pre-Award and other research administration activities as needed, including troubleshooting SciENcv, Biosketch, Other Support, and Just-in-Time documentation, along with other submission requests.

Principal Professional (including all of the above)

• Independently manage complex or higher-risk sponsored project portfolios and resolve financial and compliance issues with limited supervision.
• Provide advanced financial forecasting, budget analysis, and recommendations in consult with the Program Manager of Research Finance and Administration to PIs and research leadership.
• Interpret and apply complex sponsor, University, and federal requirements.
• Develop and improve procedures, reporting tools, and operational workflows.
• Serve as a resource and mentor to colleagues on research administration practices, financial management, compliance, and institutional systems.

Hybrid – this role is eligible for a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week on campus and as needed for in-person meetings. Consideration may be given to a fully remote arrangement for highly qualified candidates who reside more than 50 miles from campus.

Our department’s home in the UCHealth Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center on the Anschutz Medical Campus. This state-of-the-art facility is one of the largest eye centers in the country and serves patients not only in the Rocky Mountain region but also all over the world.
The technological innovations conceived and developed by departmental faculty have changed the practice of eye care worldwide. Our educational programs train the next generation of leaders in ophthalmology. Our specialists have developed…