Grants Specialist

Contract And Grants Specialist

Position Number: 0081441T

Hiring Unit:
College of Education, Center on Disability Studies

Location:

Manoa

Appointment to begin September 2026 or soon thereafter. Renewal contingent upon satisfactory performance, department needs, and availability of funds.

Pay Band A

• Provides staff support by searching continually for external funding opportunities that relate to the mission of the organization, interests of the faculty, and needs of the community.
• Assists with submitting proposals for all faculty using the UH electronic submission system.
• Provide project management, as requested, including budget management, working with subcontractors to ensure satisfactory compliance, providing technical assistance as necessary.
• Assists with maintaining database on status of Center on Disability Studies (CDS) grants submitted, funded, ending, reporting requirements.
• Initiate, organize, and conduct meetings to review, plan, and prepare funding proposals for submission.
• Conduct review of grant applications for compliance with College of Education (COE) policies and Office of Research Services (ORS) requirements.
• Pursue and assist in negotiating potential contracts related to CDS work.
• Assists with maintaining the National Information and Reporting System (NIRS) national data reporting system including monitoring the timeline for submission of data into the system and ensuring that all staff and faculty complete data entry by June 30 of each year.
• Provides assistance with preparing the final NIRS report, reviewing all data entry, identifying errors, duplications, and omissions by the due date of July 30 of each year.
• Provide training to CDS personnel in use of the NIRS system.
• Provide supervision for other administrative or student staff, as assigned.
• Copy edit documents.
• Provides support to faculty in preparing proposals, literature reviews, providing boilerplate information, prepare budgets ensuring compliance with submission guidelines pertaining to research designs, grant narrative, deadlines, and specific requirements of request for proposals (RFP).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Pay Band B

• Search continually for external funding opportunities that relate to the mission of the organization, interests of the faculty, and needs of the community.
• Submit proposals for all faculty using the UH electronic submission system.
• Provide project management, as requested, including budget management, working with subcontractors to ensure satisfactory compliance, providing technical assistance as necessary.
• Maintain database on status of Center on Disability (CDS) grants submitted, funded, ending, reporting requirements.
• Initiate, organize, and conduct meetings to review, plan, and prepare funding proposals for submission.
• Conduct review of grant applications for compliance with College of Education (COE) policies and Office of Research Services (ORS) requirements.
• Pursue and assist in negotiating potential contracts related to Center on Disability Studies (CDS) work.
• Oversee and maintain the National Information and Reporting System (NIRS) national data reporting system including monitoring the timeline for submission of data into the system and ensuring that all staff and faculty complete data entry by June 30 of each year.
• Prepare the final NIRS report, reviewing all data entry, identifying errors, duplications, and omissions by the due date of July 30 of each year.
• Provide training to CDS personnel in use of the NIRS system.
• Provide supervision for other administrative or student staff, as assigned.
• Consult faculty in preparing proposals, literature reviews, providing boilerplate information, prepare budgets ensuring compliance with submission guidelines pertaining to research designs, grant narrative, deadlines, and specific requirements of the Request for Proposal (RFP).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

* Denotes Essential Function

Pay Band A