Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist

Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist

The Senior Grants & Contracts Specialist position is responsible for:
Advising principal investigators (PIs) on proposal strategy, timelines, and sponsor policies related to their grant writing. Supporting faculty and staff on all sponsored project proposals by prospecting for potential project funding, assisting with internal registration and routing of documents, registering and maintaining online sponsor portals (including Grants.gov, Research.gov, eRA Commons, Just Grants, etc.), registering and assigning faculty login and password information, navigating online submissions based on sponsor requirements, assisting with grant writing and editing (as needed), assisting with budget development and review based on sponsor requirements assuring the request is allowable, allocable, reasonable, and consistently applied, creating/maintaining electronic and hard-copy proposal records, tracking the application process and documenting funded and unfunded projects, obtaining reviewer comments from funded and unfunded projects to aid future proposal development, processing funded projects for account setup, assisting with post-award functions as needed (e.g., submission of online amendments), interpreting federal regulations, including Uniform Guidance (soon to be Uniform Grant Regulation (UGR)) (2

CFRPart 200), FAR, and agency-specific requirements, ensuring compliance with institutional, state, federal, and sponsor regulations, assisting with modification and programming of the database to accommodate differing requests and reporting requirements, assisting the Director with oversight of PI eligibility, securing reviewers' comments, copies of proposals and any other documents to assist grant writers in improving proposal competitiveness, coordinating faculty/staff training in all aspects of proposal development, conducting research on specific funding requests for Troy faculty and staff, assisting the Director in the review and distribution of daily, bi-weekly, and monthly publications of potential funding opportunities, and targeting these opportunities to interested Troy faculty and staff members, developing and reviewing budgets for grant proposals to ensure they are allowable, allocable, reasonable, and consistently applied, and assisting with the annual Sponsored Programs recognition luncheon (developing printed materials and coordinating staff to work the event).

Minimum Qualifications - 1. Bachelor's degree in a related field
2. Minimum of two years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications - 1. Knowledge and experience in the use of Datatel 2. CRA certification

Will this position require driving (personal vehicle, university vehicle, utility vehicle, or golf cart) in order to perform the job duties? - No

Work Hours - 8am to 5pm Monday through Friday May occasionally require some time worked outside normal office hours.

List any hazardous conditions or physical demands required by this position - N/A

Does this position have supervisory responsibility? - No