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Grants & Contracts Officer III

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Georgia State University
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Atlanta, GA
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Grants and Contracts Officer III

Georgia State University

School of Public Health

Mark Chaffin Centers for Healthy Development

 

The Mark Chaffin Centers for Healthy Development in the School of Public Health is seeking a sponsor-funded Grants and Contracts Officer III. This position will provide both pre-award and post-award support to the centers within the Mark Chaffin Centers for Healthy Development.  

Duties include but are not limited to: 

Pre-Award functions:

  • Provide pre-award support for MCCHD grants and contracts.  
  • Manages budget development by ensuring budgetary lines are reasonable, allowable, and allocable while formatting the budget justification based on the requirements of the sponsor.
  • Develop and oversee grant and contract proposals and budgets in compliance with federal, state, local, and University guidelines.
  • Finalize and route sponsored project proposals to OSP for submission.
  • Work closely with various organizations nationally and internationally preparing contracts and assisting with negotiations alongside leadership and OSP.
  • Maintain grants and contracts database and track sponsored activities.
  • Perform in-depth reviews of the award documents and award notifications throughout the contract process and grant award process Assist with non-compete and carry-over applications.
  • Provide complete proposal budgeting assistance and guidance to the format and requirements of solicitations, as well as liaise with OSPA as needed to ensure the success of submissions.
  • Manage and process the flow of all proposal-related documents, utilizing all appropriate systems.
  • Acquires and maintains knowledge of research activities, grant acquisition archives, and records.
  • Acts as liaison between department heads, faculty, legal, Office of Research, and sponsoring agency to ensure the success of the proposal submission. 

    • Post Award functions:

  • Manage project expenses and personnel planning by ensuring the expenses are reasonable, allocable, and allowable for the project.
  • Coordinate, review, and submit progress reports to federal and state sponsors.
  • Provide spending projections for various center-sponsored project budgets.
  • Manage annual reporting by completing the report ensuring the requirements of the sponsor are met, accordingly.
  • Request and process amendments, extensions, and re-budgets.
  • Review, approve, and submit invoicing requests.
  • Design and prepare grants and contract reports, invoices, and other related documents/templates for purposes of reporting.
  • Perform closeout on sponsored projects ensuring all expenses billed and monies received to close the project, accordingly.
  • Expedite and monitor sponsored grant expenditures: vouchers, purchase orders, requisitions, reimbursements, and travel expenses.
  • Keep Principal Investigators (Pl's) abreast of grant contract budget expenses via accurate and timely expenditure reports, shadow accounting, and expense projections.
  • Work closely with OSPA staff on accounts to ensure compliance. Monthly, reconcile all project accounts for which the position is responsible.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned. 

    • Other Administrative Functions: 

  • Review and approve payment requests for project sales and service-related expenditures.
  • Manage sales and service accounts maintaining monthly record of expenditures, invoices, and payments.
  • Approved payments to be processed by the cash office.
  • Prepare and route new and amended contracts through legal sales and service activities.
  • Provide annual sales and service budgets for setup.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned. 


    • Qualifications

    Minimum Requirements: 

    • Bachelor's degree and four years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.


    College/Business Unit
    Open until filled

    College/Business Unit: School of Public Health
    Location: Atlanta Campus
    Job Posting: 08/05/26, 2:32:42 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_university1.jpg

    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.

    georgia_state_university2.jpgThe 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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