Associate Director - Pre Award
- Employer
- Northeastern University
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not specified
- Date posted
- Mar 16, 2021
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Business & Administrative Affairs, Grants & Contracts
- Employment Level
- Administrative
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Associate Director - Pre Award
About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.
Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.
Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.
About the Opportunity:
The Associate Director Pre-award will play a leadership role in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences (Khoury) research administration team to further the college's growing research program. The Associate Director will be responsible to contribute to the overall strategic planning and creation of new policies and procedures necessary for the efficient operation of college-level grant administration.
Responsibilities:
Overall responsibility is to oversee the pre-award research portfolio in the college and to supervise the Grant Administrator, Pre-Award to ensure quality control of all proposal related material and Just in Time requests to ensure that resulting agreements can be processed as quickly and accurately as possible. The associate director will review and approve for accuracy all Khoury proposals for grants, contracts and gifts to submit to federal, foundation, and corporate sponsors. The associate director will manage the processing of EPAWS and ECLAWS records using NU-RES systems.
The associate director will work closely with the Director of Northeastern University Research Enterprise Services on all matters pertaining to the pre-award policies and procedures in Khoury. They will also meet regularly with the Director of Grants Management in Khoury as well as the Associate Dean of Research to keep up to date with issues related to proposal submissions and other pre-award matters.
The associate director will identify key areas of improvement in pre-award research administrative processes and procedures, develop creative solutions and implement them to further research initiatives within the college to provide a high level of customer service. Khoury is a rapidly growing research enterprise with 55+ current faculty members and an accelerated hiring initiative for research active faculty. The associate director will be responsible for onboarding new faculty by overseeing the grant transfer process, assisting with FCOI compliance/CITI/export control tutorials, financial systems training, and funding agency account set-ups to ensure timely and successful transition to Northeastern University. The associate director will keep abreast of developments in government policies and research administration by attending conferences and workshops and networking with other Research Administration professionals.
Challenges include growing numbers of new researchers within the college who are actively pursuing research funding and the number of interdisciplinary appointments in the College which makes the administration of grants more complex. The diverse research interests of interdisciplinary hires mean working with an increasing variety of agencies and foundations often presenting unique challenges in proposal preparation and pre-award administration.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent with a minimum of 6-8 year's of experience in grant administration with pre-award experience required. Demonstrated ability to set priorities and manage several projects at once under deadline pressure. Superior knowledge of Fastlane, NIH ASSIST, eRA Commons and grants.gov required. Demonstrated ability to provide leadership to research program. Must have strong working knowledge of the federal circulars, uniform guidance 2 CFR 200, NSF PPAGP, NIH grant proposal guidelines. Must be able to handle complex and confidential information with discretion. Must be able to work independently.
Preferred Qualifications:
Salary Grade:
12
Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.
To apply, visit https://careers.pageuppeople.com/879/cw/en-us/job/505820
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