Senior Grants and Contracts Manager

MCD Global Health is a nonprofit global health organization recognized in the United States and around the world as a leader, innovator, and trusted partner.

We envision a world in which all people have access to high quality and enduring solutions to improve and maintain their health and well-being. MCD aspires to be a premier partner of choice and an internationally recognized leader, innovator, and trusted partner in applied, cross-national public health solutions. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of people worldwide through enduring, high-quality, cost-effective, and universally accessible public health solutions.

Grade Level: 7

Anticipated Salary: $90,000 - $125,000 annually. Salary may vary based on qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Reporting Relationship: Reports to the Program Director, Grants Administration, or other designated senior leader.

The Senior Grants and Contracts Manager:

• Provides end-to-end management and oversight of a portfolio of prime grants and contracts.

• Leads award start-up activities, including review of terms and conditions, compliance requirements, deliverables, budgets, reporting schedules, and key milestones.

• Serves as the primary grants and contracts point of contact for assigned prime awards and coordinates with internal stakeholders and external funders.

• Monitors award performance against approved scopes of work, budgets, timelines, milestones, and contractual obligations.

• Manages award amendments, budget revisions, extensions, no-cost extensions, rebudgeting, and other modifications.

• Coordinates preparation and submission of financial, programmatic, and contractual reports.

• Maintains comprehensive award files and ensures documentation is complete, accurate, and audit-ready.

• Interprets and operationalizes sponsor regulations, award terms and conditions, organizational policies, and applicable federal, state, and local requirements.

• Ensures compliance with prime award requirements and identifies areas requiring corrective action or additional controls.

• Conducts or coordinates risk assessments and compliance reviews throughout the award lifecycle.

• Monitors subrecipient and subcontractor requirements where applicable, ensuring appropriate oversight under prime awards.

• Partners with finance, audit, legal, and compliance functions to address findings, risks, and corrective actions.

• Ensures appropriate documentation and internal controls are maintained to support audits and sponsor reviews.

• Develops and improves grants and contracts management policies, procedures, tools, and workflows.

• Strengthens systems for tracking award requirements, deliverables, reporting deadlines, modifications, and compliance obligations.

• Identifies opportunities to automate or streamline portfolio monitoring and reporting.

• Establishes standard operating procedures and knowledge-management resources.

• Supports implementation and optimization of grants management or ERP systems.

• Promotes consistent, efficient, and scalable award management practices across the organization.

• Supervises and provides strategic direction, coaching, and professional development to the Associate Manager, Contracts and Compliance, who is responsible for the organization’s subaward management function.

• Establishes clear priorities, performance expectations, and workflows for subaward administration and compliance.

• Provides technical guidance and oversight to ensure subaward processes align with prime award requirements, organizational policies, and applicable regulations.

• Partners with the Associate Manager to ensure effective subaward lifecycle management, including subaward development, risk assessment, negotiation, execution, monitoring, modifications, reporting, and closeout.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, finance, law, public health, healthcare administration, or a related field.

• Minimum of 8–10 years of progressively responsible experience in grants administration, contracts management, subaward administration, procurement, or a related field.

• Demonstrated experience managing the lifecycle of complex contracts or subaward agreements in federally funded environments.

• Strong and solid command of professional theory, techniques, and practices requiring comprehensive knowledge of contracting principles.

• Strong working knowledge of Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200), Federal Acquisition Regulation, federal grant requirements, and procurement standards.

• Experience drafting, negotiating, administering, and closing out contracts, subawards, or similar funding instruments.

• Experience interpreting agreement terms and translating requirements into practical implementation steps for internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong project management, organizational, and…