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Pre and/or post grant awards experience is essential.

Occupational Summary

Performs pre- and/or award management activities for the Schools of Medicine and Nursing. Pre- awa rd activities include reviewing department proposals prior to submission and ensuring all applications meet University policy and Federal regulations, award review and set-up to facilitate appropriate long-term management. Award management activities include facilitating the progress of the sponsored project by reviewing prior approval requests, rebudgets, extensions, and managing the closeout process.The successful candidate will be assigned either to pre-award or award manage ment as a primary function, but will be crossed trained to provide coverage for the other.

Proposal Review and Approval

- Assist PIs and Grant Managers in the development and submission of accurate proposal budgets and compliant proposal materials by interpreting sponsor guidelines, University policies and Federal regulations.

- Review applications for institutional risk issues, accuracy, correct rates, and allowability of items proposed. Facilitate changes when issues are identified.

- Review the application to ensure that non- central approvals, appropriate cle arances and required compliance approvals (such as human subjects, labo ratory animals, export controls, COI, or biohazardous materials) have b een obtained for the project.

- Ensure that all required documentation for subcontractors is complete prior to submission of the proposal.

- Review the proposal to ensure the completed proposal pac kage meets sponsor submission standards, including electronic system re quirements for each sponsor.

-Ensure that applications a re submitted in a timely manner

Award Review and Set-up

- Review the NOA or other awarding mechanism terms a nd conditions and note changes, additional terms, etc. Communicate with the project’s PI or designated administrator on issues related to the award.

- Request and review revised budgets if needed.

- Review award and project for compliance requirements.

- Initiate/approve account set-up for new projects

- Process awards in a timely manner; notify TBS of new awards and notify department admini strators that an award has been received.

Award Management

- Act as a liaison between sponsors and investigators during a project to resolve issues or make prior approval requests.

- Communicate with the project’s PI or designated administrator on award issues.

- Review rebudgets, CAS, no-cost extension s, carryover requests, closeout requests , prior approval requests, residual balance requests and other award management actions.

- Coordinate and review project close-out

Miscellaneous Duties as Assigned

- Keep up-to-date of changes involving internally and externally imposed policiesand procedures

- Act as a resource for any compliance questions/issues using existing kno wledge, experience and available resources (e.g., sponsor regulations, University policies) for supporting and/or providing guidance within OR A and the SOM’s research community

- Special projects/initiatives as identified by department leadership

Education: Work requires communications, analytical and organizational process. skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program. Research or grants education and/or certification is preferred. Training: Successful completion of required department training such as GC101& 201 Introduction to Research, Financial Services Introduction to R3, Introduction to Duke GL, Introduction to Accounting, Sponsored Research Reporting, Research Administration at Duke (on-line), Basic Compliance (on-line) within first six months of hire is required. Successful completion of the Research Administration Academy (RAA) is required. Employees hired into this classification without RAA training will work closely with their manager to schedule and complete the training within 12 months of start date. The expectation is that the staff member will maintain the requirements for their level. Failing to meet these requirements will be addressed throughthe performance review Upon successful completion of expected training, the employee must maintain Research Administration Academy (RAA) certification by completing continuing education requirements.

No experience required for candidates who possess a Bachelor's or position. Master's degree in a field of study directly related to the specific

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