--Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator--Georgetown University--

Located in a historic neighborhood in the nation's capital, Georgetown
University offers rigorous academic programs, a global perspective,
exciting ways to take advantage of Washington, D.C., and a commitment
to social justice. We are currently looking for qualified candidates
to join our Office of Research Services.

The Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator serves as the liaison
between the University and federal and private sponsors. S/he partners
in fast-paced, face-to-face, phone and email interaction with faculty
and administrators in responding to inquiries, reviewing proposals and
awards, evaluating budgets, budget justifications, and other
sponsor-required forms, and assisting in the formulation of clear,
concise Statements of Work for subcontracts (if applicable).  The
Senior Administrator interacts with government and private sponsors to
request pre-award spending, expense authorizations, contract language
changes, project changes, interpretation of the regulations, no-cost
extensions, and transfers of awards; interacts often with the
University leadership, faculty and administrators on grant related
policy and financial matters, and works closely with Sponsored
Programs Financial Operations, Risk Management, Tax and University
Counsel on compliance related matters. Reporting to the Senior
Director Research Services, the Senior Administrator has duties that
include but are not limited to:

-Reviews and executes faculty proposals to external sponsors.
-Negotiates and administers incoming externally-funded research grants
and contracts.
-Develops teaming and consortium agreements as needed.
-Verifies or performs various compliance checks related to conflict of
interest, export controls, private use, E-Verify, tax and other
federal initiatives.
-Serves as the primary liaison with the external sponsor for all
official communication.
-Interprets and applies University and sponsor policies.
-Learns and masters a wide variety of government databases related to
the federal government’s mandate of electronically exchanging research
information, and provides clear, concise and accurate responses to
inquiries/requests from faculty and administrators.
-Follows through on any issues that require contact with other
internal or external departments; and effectively hands off to other
team members or other internal departments so details do not fall
through the cracks and cause incomplete resolutions or unanswered
questions.
-Provides fast and timely responses to inquires/requests with a
supportive and professional attitude toward faculty and administrators
doing research.
-Assists in the final development stages of an award proposal.
-Completes the review and execution of a portion of approximately
$115M annual outgoing proposals (equates to approximately 280
proposals annually across the Main Campus, Law Center and Qatar
campuses).
-Analyzes proposals for conformance with University regulations and
with sponsor program announcement and regulations.
-Verifies that all relevant compliance reviews have been performed and
documented.
-Scrutinizes proposals to verify the accuracy and consistency of
proposal information, as well as the inclusion of the proper
University fringe benefit and indirect cost rates and all required
proposal elements.
-Negotiates related teaming and consortium agreements.
-Electronically submits proposals to external systems such as QNRF,
Grants.gov, the NSF’s FastLane system, and/or any other electronic
research administration system designated by a sponsor.
-Delivers high quality customer service.
-Initiates and fosters working relationships with sponsor representatives.
-Works with a large number of faculty from a variety of departments,
disciplines and cultures with a heavy emphasis on personalized
customer service and on maintaining the Office’s excellent reputation.
-Acts in a professional manner with faculty and administrators from all levels.

Requirements

-Bachelor’s degree
-4 years of progressively responsible experience in a university or
other non-profit grants and contracts office
-Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel,
PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat and be adaptable to the ever changing
technology within the University
-Demonstrated proficiency in use of databases.
-Excellent analytical and verbal and written communications skills
-Demonstrable ability to work independently, to prioritize work,
manage deadlines in a semi-stressful environment, and diplomatically
juggle complex situations involving the competing interests of faculty
during periods of high volume
-Demonstrable diplomacy skills, flexibility, and the ability to
maintain confidentiality.
-Ability to think logically and to use appropriate judgment
-Excellent customer service skills
-Experience with contracts and other external funding vehicles preferred
-Experience with the use of Community of Science/Pivot funding
opportunities and expertise databases, the National Science
Foundation’s FastLane database, Grants.gov, or other federal
government electronic systems preferred.

Apply at https://goo.gl/a8Htlg, or go to careers.georgetown.edu then
"Search and Apply for Jobs."

Need some assistance with the application process? Please call 202-687-2500.

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