Sponsor Funded Professional | Project Manager
- Employer
- Georgia State University
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
The Department of Middle and Secondary Education at Georgia State University invites applications for the position of Project Manager, focused on financial management of the CREATE Teacher Residency Program (titled Collaboration and Reflection to Enhance Atlanta Teacher Effectiveness), a partnership between Georgia State University and Atlanta Public Schools. This is a limited-term, grant-funded position, with a start date of Spring or Summer 2021. Funding is expected through Summer 2023, with possibility of extension for two additional years.Primary responsibilities include overall management of the program. More specifically, the Project Manager, Finance will focus their work in three areas:Financial Oversight and Management:
- Manages all budget and financial work for main and sub-awards, as follows:
- Sets up all new and amended budgets in GSU systems, tracking budget approvals as needed
- Maintains and further develops sophisticated detailed spreadsheet(s) for all project costs across various granting agencies and private funders,
- Maintains detailed records of monthly transactions on spreadsheet/shadow budget document
- Reviews and determines feasibility of budget shifts on main award and subawards, and keeps a detailed narrative on budget adjustments on budget documents mentioned above
- Provides written updates and projections to CREATE leadership regarding overall grant spending across multiple funding sources
- Engages in all budget meetings/requests, as follows:
- Leads bi-weekly meetings with CREATE project directors and PI to offer updates on budget
- Leads regular meetings with subaward financial support staff
- Attends required monthly expenditure report meetings with GSU grants post-awards personnel to understand and sign-off on weekly and monthly expenditures
- Attends monthly meetings with US Dept of Ed program officer(s) to offer updates on budgets
- Calls meeting or manages email communications with CREATE project manager, CREATE staff and/or stakeholders as it relates to editing contracts, RFPs, etc. based on edits to the budget
- Manages all financial audits
- Provides financial oversight on grant and foundation spending, as follows:
- Ensures all subawards and vendors adhere to their contracts in regard to financial spending, invoicing, etc.
- Ensures all spending is allowable and within the guidelines for approved federal and private foundation spending
- Ensures any budget changes that are above the allowable threshold are documented and have needed university or federal approvals
- Leads efforts on any budget audits/requests from the university or federal government
- Develops an organized system for financial project management for all subawardees and vendors, ensuring that all budget and administrative personnel understand processes, deadlines, etc.
- Tracks and processes payments to CREATE faculty, staff, participants and subawards
- Works directly with project PI to get necessary signatures for all financial transactions
- Maintains an electronic and secured system for all CREATE records, as follows:
- Organizes, attends, and documents financial meetings between various stakeholders
- In partnership with project manager and subaward financial personnel, creates and maintains a shared electronic and secured space for all budget documents, including payment request forms, etc.
- Maintains detailed budget tracking and projections for all cost-share and private foundation funds in financial spreadsheet
- When requested, provides financial reports for meetings with foundations
- Works directly with Lead Project manager to create detailed projections for required cost-share for upcoming APR reports
- Provides detailed budget reports, with narrative, for APR reports on spending to date, including projections for spending through the end of each grant year.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and five years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.
College/Business Unit
Open until filled
College/Business Unit: College of Education & Human Development
Location: Atlanta Campus
Job Posting: 04/29/21, 4:27:21 PM
Organization
Founded in 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia State University is the second-largest and one of four research institutions in the University System of Georgia. The University serves one-fourth of the graduate students in the university system; it is within a one-hour commute of more than one-third of the state’s population. Approximately 80 percent of all Georgia State alumni live and work in Georgia.
Georgia State’s main campus is located on 34 acres in downtown Atlanta. University centers in Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead and Henry County offer students convenient suburban locations for graduate courses in business and education.
More than 50,000 students annually attend Georgia State University. While 90 percent of the students are from Georgia, students also come from all 50 states and 160 countries. More than 1,400 international students attend Georgia State and graduate students comprise 31 percent of the student population.
The University offers more than 52 degree programs in more than 250 fields of study – from public policy and African-American studies to biology and health sciences. Degrees are offered at the bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels through six units: the College of Arts and Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Law and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In addition to the numerous degree programs, Georgia State offers full- and part-time programs and day, evening and weekend classes.
Students have many choices in extracurricular activities including more than 22 fraternities and sororities; and some 250 chartered student groups, including 60 degree-related student groups, seven religious, 24 law-oriented and 22 multicultural/international groups; and 10 honor societies. There is also an active student government association which includes the student senate and the judicial board.
The Georgia State Panthers are members of the Colonial Athletic Association and compete in 16 NCAA Division I intercollegiate men’s and women’s sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track and volleyball. The university announced in April 2008 that is will begin Division I-AA football in 2010.
The university’s innovative Touch the Earth program brings outdoor recreation ranging from backpacking, rock climbing, sailing, kayaking, rafting and water-skiing to out-of-state snow-skiing and snorkeling trips. And WRAS, Georgia State’s popular 100,000-watt radio voice, is the most powerful student-run radio station in the United States.
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