Sponsored Research Consult/Financial Manager I (Pre-Award), College of Sciences (Hybrid)

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278056

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Atlanta, Georgia

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Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation.

We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths.

The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts.

Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do :

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the well-being of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

• Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good;
• breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible;

and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

The College of Sciences (CoS) cultivates curiosity, encourages exploration, and fosters innovation to develop scientific solutions for a better world.

Our connected community of scientists and mathematicians collaborates across disciplines and challenges to achieve excellence in science, teaching, and research.

Working across six internationally ranked schools with the brightest young minds in our fields, we mentor future leaders to identify and push the frontiers of human knowledge, imagination, and innovation.

Within the Deans Office, various signature events are sponsored by Alumni Engagement, Center for Promoting Inclusion and Equity in the Sciences (C-PIES), Office of Undergraduate Education Career Educator, CoS Staff Advisory Council, and the Dean.

Job Summary

Serve as subject matter expert and primary advisor within a college or an academic related or business unit on matters related to sponsored research program administration in accordance with Institute financial policies.

Plan, manage, and perform associated financial support in the areas of budgets, accounting, reporting and grant and contract administration.

Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing employee performance, providing feedback, and making pay recommendations.

This position will interact on a regular basis with : faculty and staff. This position typically will advise and counsel : faculty and staff.

This position will supervise : assigned staff.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -

Manage, coordinate, and perform sponsored research pre-award activities to include proposal development, formatting, review and submitting;

budget, and fringe and overhead rates application; and database entry.

Job Duty 2 -

Manage, coordinate, and perform post-award activity to include faculty liaison, monitoring expenditures and compliance and report generation.

Job Duty 3 -

Manage sponsored research related accounting operations including budget updates, financial reporting, Salary Planning and Distribution (SPD), sub agreements and financial forecasting.

Job Duty 4 -

Provide advice to the school's business operations management regarding issues related to sponsored research plans, proposals and projects.

Job Duty 5 -

Plan, direct and monitor activities of grants administration and / or grants accounting staff responsible for sponsored research support.

Job Duty 6 -

Liaise with management and staff within Office of Sponsored Programs and Grants & Contracts Accounting regarding sponsored research grants and contracts issues.

Job Duty 7 -

Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience

Three to five years job related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Certified Research Administrator, Certified Pre-Award Research Administrator, or Certified Financial Research Administrator Supervisory experience preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

Other preferred qualifications

• Experience in submitting all types of proposals NSF, NASA, NIH, Simons Foundation, DOE, ONR
• Knowledge of Research.gov, Cayuse, NSPIRES
• Ability to create complex budgets
• Use of Workday
• Understanding of lifecycle of award
• Knowledge of 2 CFR 200

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS

This job requires professional knowledge of financial / accounting principles and practices as applied in sponsored research environment.

Working knowledge of proposal development and related regulatory requirements is required as is use of office and spreadsheet related computer applications and specialized applications and databases related to grants and contract administration.

Also required are skills in planning, attention to detail, problem solving, and communications.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office.

Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards.

More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https : / / www.

usg.edu / policymanual / section8 / C224 / #p8.2.18 personnel conduct .

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https : / / www.

usg.edu / policymanual / section6 / C2653 .

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all.

To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and / or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services.

Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions.

This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests.

Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

More information on these policies can be found here : https : / / www.usg.edu / policymanual / section6 / c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

Other Information

Salary range : $70,000.00-$80,000.00

Location : Hybrid (Atlanta, GA)

Job grade : A8

This is a supervisory position.

This position does have financial responsibilities.

No, this position will not be required to drive.

This role is considered a position of trust.

This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Cd).

This position will not travel

This position does not require security clearance.

Other Information

This position reports to the College of Sciences Associate Director for Research Administration and will perform and coordinate pre-award activities for the large scale proposals and support grant administrators in six schools.

This position will help faculty to prepare documents and lead them through the proposal submission process, gather documents for proposal submission and enter in submission portal, check documents for accuracy, review solicitations for upcoming proposals, create proposal budgets and follow GT and sponsor budget guidelines, and enter proposals into eRouting.

Other duties include, but are not limited to :

• Help gather process documents to include on internal Teams site and support six schools
• Work with team on standardizing pre-award processes within CoS
• Collaborate with Assoc. Dir of Research Admin on institute or college initiatives
• Run monthly / quarterly reports and provide guidance on them

Background Check

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check which will include a credit check. Please visit http : / / policylibrary.

gatech.edu / employment / pre-employment-screening