Grants and Contracts Manager

March 15

🌵 Arizona – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Duke Careers

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Duke Careers is a platform connected to Duke University's rich legacy, established in 1924. It aims to celebrate the centennial of Duke University while providing resources, stories, and interviews that reflect the university's history, current achievements, and future aspirations. A key focus of Duke Careers is to engage with alumni and the community, showcasing the transformative impact of education and leadership within the university.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1924

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• This position has the option to be 100% remote. • Candidates must reside in the following states: CA, FL, NY, GA, MD, SC, TN, TX, VA, Washington DC, PA, NJ, MA, IL, MT, HI, CO, AZ. • This position will be located within the School of Medicine Shared Research Administration Resource (RASR) Group and will play an active role in working with specifically identified departments to manage their portfolio of grants and contracts. • Coordinate and/or perform pre-award and/or post-award activities for a unit (school, department, division, institute, or center) that has a large, complex, and/or diverse portfolio of grants and contracts. • Pre-award activities include broad duties in preparation and submission of grant and contract proposals. • Ensures all applications meet agency and university guidelines and published time tables and deadlines. • Ensures proposals are entered and routed in a timely manner for further review. • Post-award activities include detailed reconciliation of assigned project budget, including determination of allocability and allowability of charges; preparing and analyzing budget reports, and developing budget projections; adjusting and correcting assigned project budgets to meet project goals and federal requirements, providing assistance and oversight to effort management of specified project portfolio. • This position is responsible for a specified highly complex grants and contracts portfolio using discretion and independent judgment to make decisions that impact the compliance and successful completion of grant and contract objectives. • This position is expected to manage a mid-sized unit (school, department, division, institute, or center) with a well defined grant and contract portfolio. • This position functions as a manager and/or facilitator of large projects, such as grants and contracts that span across multiple disciplines and faculty.

🎯 Requirements

• Ability and desire to complete Advanced Grants Management training (in most circumstances an employee will be expected to hold a RAA certification before moving into this classification.) • Demonstrated skills in analyzing data and formulating conclusions. • Ability to learn changing technologies related to grants and contracts management. • Full command of grants and contracts systems; requires solid working knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Access, Excel, Power Point). • Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels of the organization. • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects/tasks simultaneously. • Ability to create verbal and written reports. • Understand and apply knowledge of national compliance issues to circumstances at Duke University. • Understanding of asset management for funded projects as applied to Duke University policies and practices. • Able to direct others in asset management and to review, troubleshoot and approve asset management. • Understand and apply basic concepts of Export controls as these relate to proposal submission and award management. • Understand and be able to apply federal rules to contract negotiations and management. • Understand and be able to apply budget management to contracts. • Understand and be able to assist others in understanding contract terminology. • Understand and be able to comply with Duke University requirements for managing Federal contracts. • Understand and be able to assist others in understanding the basic Federal and Duke University rules, regulations and requirements of IRB, IACUC, COI, IBC and Misconduct Science. • Able to clearly communicate when interacting with faculty to inform of obligations in meeting these requirements and when faculty is not complying with policies. • Able to escalate issues to higher levels when unable to get cooperation from others. • Able to establish and maintain systems to ensure timely compliance with RCR requirements. • Understand and be able to operationalize the development and maintenance of internal controls within a Duke University unit. • Able to understand and apply basic internal control concepts to daily management of Federal awards. • Understand and be able to translate concepts to actual practice at Duke University. • Understand and apply the basic concepts of clinical research in the Duke University compliance environment. • Understand and be able to apply federal and university rules to management of effort allocation for individuals compensated whole or in part from federal awards. • Understand and be able to manage complex effort scenarios resulting from multiple appointment types (VA, University). • Understand the management requirements of broadly represented aspects of Federal financial research compliance and to develop strategies for meeting compliance expectations within a dedicated unit and/or assigned portfolio.