Grant and Contract Coordinator

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Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs supports Western's mission , which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

For more information about our department please visit our website:
Research and Sponsored Programs Office | Office of the Vice Provost for Research | Western Washington University

At Western Washington University, research administration professionals help faculty and staff turn ideas into funded projects that expand knowledge, engage students, and serve our communities. This position offers the opportunity to contribute directly to WWU’s growing research enterprise while working in a collaborative environment that values integrity, clarity, continuous learning, and responsive service.

We are looking for a detail-oriented, service-minded professional who can balance compliance, customer service, and problem-solving in a complex university environment. The strongest candidates will bring excellent communication skills, sound judgment, comfort with financial analysis and monitoring, and the ability to explain policies and sponsor requirements clearly to diverse audiences.

• Pre-Award Administration
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  Advise faculty on funding opportunities and sponsor requirements; interpret RFPs/FOAs; develop and review proposal budgets, justifications, and cost-share commitments; coordinate proposal components, including subrecipient documentation; manage internal…