Grant Specialist - Population Health

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** Department:
** SOM Department of Population Health-----Population Health Administration##
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* Position Title:

** Grant Specialist - Population Health##
** Job Family Group:
** Professional Staff##
** Job Description

Summary:

** The Grant Specialist will provide director support to the Associate Director of Grants in the Department of Population Health including account reconciliation, costing allocations and payroll accounting adjustments, award management, grant reporting and award modifications in My Sponsored Projects . The Grant Specialist will maintain faculty, other support documents, and monitor grants in the eRA Commons system.##
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* Job Description:

**** Job Responsibilities
*** Assist the Associate Director of Grants with monthly grant reconciliations to ensure accurate, allowable expenditures and correct personnel effort in compliance with university and RI requirements.
* Accurately submit Costing Allocations and Payroll Accounting Adjustments in Workday and run payroll reports to ensure correct pay and grant worktags for faculty, staff, and students.
* Understand all department funding award types (grants, gifts) and what is and is not allowable for non-salary expenses items to help assist the department administrative team process transactions in Workday, RA and KUEA appropriately.
* Pull expenses from Workday, Qlik View and One Solution to assist faculty with completing financial/expense reports for active grants.
* Assist with grant financial reports on expenditures and balances to ensure budget compliance and make recommendations to the Associate Director of Grants.
* Monitor grant end dates against KUMC fiscal and take the appropriate steps to ensure timely close-out with Sponsored Programs Administration. This includes coordinating with the purchasing team to address any outstanding orders.
* Create and maintain Faculty Other Support sheets and working with each Ability member to ensure they have completed the required NIH other support disclosure training so the certification certificate can be attached with each funding proposal submitted in MySponsored Projects (MSAP).
* Assist with maintaining grant budgets in Adaptive and preparing monthly reports for institutional leadership.
* Assist with initiating, preparing, and routing award modifications, including budget and personnel effort changes, for Sponsored Programs Administration and sponsor approval.
* Request Adavanced/Pre Award spending account set up within MySponsored Projects (MSAP) system and keeping track of these to make sure when the grant award is received, grant gets moved to active status.
* Maintain departmental internal grant account sheet, keeping it current adding all new and removing ending grants so that department administrative staff have a current list for processing grant expense transactions within Workday.
* Monitor grant approval process in MySponsored Projects (MSAP) system and following up with Sponsored Programs Administration, MyAgreements and IASC to ensure timely execution of award setup in both MySponsored Projects (MSAP) and Workday systems.
* Monitor the lifecycle of grant submissions through the NIH eRA Commons system, tracking grant application submissions, the status of applications and upcoming report deadlines to ensure they are completed timely by Sponsored Programs Administration, My Agreements and IASC.
* Monitor subaward invoices processed by Sponsored Programs Administration to ensure timely, accurate payments and follow up on discrepancies or delays.
* Assist the Associate Director of Grants with monitoring the daily email notifications from MySponsored Projects (MSAP), Sponsored Programs Administration, MyAgreements and IASC ensuring replies are completed in a timely manner. Facilitate closed-loop communication with faculty PI on status of applications (pre/post-award).
* Perform administrative and clerical tasks for department faculty and program staff as needed.
* Enter purchase requisitions, procurement card purchases, inter-departmental purchase, travel request and reimbursement forms and expense reports in Workday.
* Maintain organized documentation related to Workday functions being…