Grant Officer

35% - Post Award Management for PI and Departmental Support - Examine awards to understand terms and conditions and nuances, and review budgets with PI. - Administer project by monitoring awards for financial and administrative compliance, and based on PI feedback, prepare funding scenarios and conduct expenditure forecasting to aid award management throughout the life of the project. - Maintain accounting records for all awards within your assigned portfolio. - Reconcile all assigned accounts against the PPM and General Ledger on a monthly basis. - Coordinate personnel and purchasing activities with the PI and SSC finance; review transactions for alignment with award terms and conditions and cost accounting standards including budget adjustments, JVs, invoices, check requests, travel and expense reimbursements and purchase requisitions as necessary. - Meet with PIs on a regular basis to provide updates on the financial status of their accounts. - Participate in meetings and events with PIs to maintain knowledge of the unit and relationship with the PIs and staff. - Pre-certify effort certification reports to accurately report effort certification for PI final review and approval. - Assist Principal Investigators with budget development for progress reports. - Assist with submission of progress reports, program reviews, and other activities related to the award. - Provide Research Center Directors, Deans, Chairs and other unit staff with requested information so that they can ensure PI’s research goals are maximized. 25% - Sponsor Liaison - Act as a liaison between PIs and sponsor to communicate and resolve any issues that arise concerning expenditures, which requires extensive knowledge of federal, state and University regulations, including the OMB Uniform Guidance. - Perform all agency interaction for sponsored project, including no cost extensions, renewals, carryforwards, and budget adjustment requests. - Facilitate award setup or budget changes in the financial system as needed in conjunction with Award Processing and Set Up team. - Prepare, review, finalize, and submit annual/final reporting around finances, property, and inventions. - Complete project close, including necessary system actions. - Act as a resource during sponsor and single audit, in conjunction with Associate Directors of Award Management and Post Award, Director of Research Administration, and Fiscal Affairs. - Complete subrecipient monitoring, as necessary. 25% - Supervision or Functional Area Expertise - Supervision: Supervise activities of assigned Grant Coordinator(s). Monitors work for accuracy and compliance with state, university, federal and agency guidelines. - Provide final review of budget and matching fund information for accuracy and compliance. - In general, a beginning level employee is not able to engage in complex financial approvals that have been reviewed or prepared by him or her without the Grant Officer's secondary review for a period of at least one year. - Highly complex or sensitive interactions with sponsoring agencies require the Grant Officer's approval in all cases. - Provide meaningful annual reviews of assigned Grant Coordinator(s