Research Administrator II

Post Award:
The employee will work closely with the Grants Team Leader and faculty/PIs to provide comprehensive award management and daily monitoring of post award activities, including but not limited to: payroll distributions, purchasing, budget transfers, incremental funding releases, budget modifications and adjustments, supplemental funding requests, subaward monitoring, no cost extensions, cost sharing, cost transfers, etc.
Post award management requires routine and detailed fiscal analysis in order to forecast each award’s financial trajectory for their portfolio. The incumbent should review their financial analysis and projections with their PIs on a consistent (monthly) basis to ensure accuracy and budget adherence.
Advise Principal Investigator (PI) and Contracts and Grants (C&G) of any special parameters and/or requirements due to specific programmatic and/or compliance restraints and monitor the award to ensure compliance in these areas.
Manage daily post award activities according to the budget awarded by the sponsor and all applicable rules. Implement procedures to ensure proper allocation of expenditures. 
On behalf of the PI, recommend the need to establish a new project or release of additional funds into an existing project, advance funding requests, subcontracts, no-cost extensions, PI changes and budget transfers, as needed. 
Work closely with C&G to ensure timely invoicing and reporting per sponsor requirements. 
Analyze, handle, and oversee monthly reconciliations using reports, queries, myInvestigator, and internal records, as well as ensure the timely identification and correction of errors. 
Policies/Procedures:  Provide advice to the PI regarding the interpretation of policies, procedures, rules, and regulations. Review award documents for post award requirements. Interpret University policies and procedures, as well as federal and state rules and regulations. Requires professional knowledge regarding agreements related to Memorandum of Understandings (MOU).
Distributions:  Manage distribution setups for payroll related to grants within portfolio.
Project Commitments:  Establish and maintain project commitments in coordination with Sponsors to meet compliance regulations in relation to cost sharing and direct pay for sponsored projects.

Pre-Award Administration:
The employee will be responsible for serving as a backup for all pre-award administration. This may include independent proposal preparation and submission, knowledge of current agency guideline requirements; advising faculty on required budgets and documents specific to each proposal; prepare budgets compliant with sponsor’s guidelines and applying appropriate indirect cost rates; preparing cover sheets, current and pending documents, conflict of interest documents and will assist when needed with the preparation of sub-awards and subcontracts that are issued to sub-recipients under prime federal or non-federal grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts.

Compliance: 
The incumbent is to be familiar with and up to date on compliance policies of awarded projects and University rules and regulations. Compliance is an aspect of post award activities which can include management and/or guidance of CAS (cost accounting standards), OMB (federal circulars that dictate operational administration of the fiscal requirements on federal awards), IRB (human subjects in research, IACUC (animal subjects in research), and COI (employee conflict of interest). An expert knowledge base of resources is very important, and incumbent must be prepared to address additional compliance aspects as they arise.

Payroll/Effort Management:
The employee will be responsible for managing payroll distributions and effort for the assigned PIs and all employees paid on research funding, including graduate and undergraduate students. This includes entering payroll distributions/LOA information in myUFL, providing AD with PDRRs for payroll distributions shared by more than one department, reconciling payroll on a timely basis to ensure payroll charges are consistent with information provided, preparing payroll cost transfers as necessary.

Other:
Prepare and maintain reference documents for faculty.
Provide office support within business services, as well as county offices. Support is related to fiscal, payroll, travel, policies and procedures, contract language, Business Services’ annual conference, etc.
Collaborate with, act as back up to and assist with overflow work for grants team lead and other grant team members, as necessary.
Other related duties as deemed necessary by the Grants Team Lead and/or Associate Director of Finance Business Services for UF/IFAS Extension.
Attend workshops, meetings, trainings, etc., as recommended and/or required to keep up to date of all grants, payroll and purchasing guidelines, practices, policies, procedures, etc.

SUPERVISION

This position is expected to work independently with minimal supervision.  Instruction is provided as needed or when requested to ensure compliance with job responsibilities and understanding of tasks. Assist with coaching, mentoring, reviewing the work of OPS Grants Student Assistant.

NORMAL WORK SCHEDULE

53,000-70,000 commensurate with experience

In order to be considered, you must upload your cover letter and resume.

Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.