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Grant Financial Administrator

University of South Florida · Greater Tampa Bay Area · 1 mo ago
On-siteFinance$58k–$63k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings

for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. We need to parse the job description. Content: - Job Description paragraph: "This position is responsible for reviewing, administering, auditing and accounting for assigned contracts and awards made to USF from external sponsors (e.g., Federal, state, and private industry). This position monitors sponsored research projects for regulatory and statutory compliance and proper fulfillment of sponsor and University commitments made in the agreement. This position is also responsible for assisting departmental contacts such as faculty, Principal Investigators (PIs), and administrative staff by providing budget and financial information for the sponsored project, giving guidance and direction on proper budget/expenditure procedures and financial control." That's about the role. Could be "About the role" section. - Responsibilities: bullet list after "Responsibilities The responsibilities for this position include:" then a long sentence with many duties separated by commas and semicolons. We need to break into list items. The text includes many responsibilities; we should split into logical items. Let's extract responsibilities: "Reviews contract and award terms and conditions to build appropriate and complete data files while maintaining the University's official records of project activity and reporting." "Manages the sponsor billing and reporting process, establishing cost sharing budgets and expenditure plans within University systems, assisting with modifications to budget and cost sharing plans with related system modifications, facilitating sponsor payments and drawdowns under letter of credit, assuring the sufficiency and allowability of cost sharing, monitoring consistency between financial elements including documentation of expenditure, cost sharing, and effort, and provides financial data to investigators and their staff in support of project management." "These fiscal management responsibilities require compliance with federal, state, and sponsor guidelines and rules, exceptional customer service delivery, and a focus on maximizing the University's collections and investment earnings." "Coordinates accounting functions to assure cash, budget, expenditures, and overall fiscal management in accordance with University policies and management objectives." "Serves as a liaison between academic administrators, faculty, the Controller's Office, Payroll, and the Office of Research to resolve financial issues and mitigate risk." "Works with sponsoring agencies to assure appropriate coordination and management of inter-entity financial processes such as billing, reporting, and cash management. (May also assist sponsors in obtaining technical reports, patent information, etc., as needed to complete project)." "Determines the need for and secures review of those project accounts requiring special approvals, and notifies the appropriate agency." "Analyzes and assesses research activities and programs to facilitate collections and develop responses to granting agency inquiries and auditors based on a review of accounting data, award/contract terms and conditions, authoritative guidance (federal, state, and University), and discussions with University faculty and staff." "Collects accounting records and substantive documents in support of responses, as needed." "Miscellaneous administrative duties including preparing special reports that are related to the University's research program." We can turn each sentence into
  • . - Qualifications: "Minimum Qualifications The position requires a Bachelor's degree and 1 year of professional administrative experience; or a Master's degree. Progressively responsible related experience may substitute for the required education on a year for year basis. Related experience includes accounting, auditing, research administration, etc. Degree Equivalency Clause: Four years of direct experience for a bachelor's degree. Six years of direct experience for a master’s degree." Also "Additional Information for Applicants: This position requires a Level 1 background screening. Hiring salary range: $57,500 - $62,500, commensurate with experience." We need to separate Pay section if salary range is given. The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." Salary range is given, so we should include Pay section. However note "commensurate with experience" is considered filler? The instruction: "never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD")". So we cannot have a Pay section that only says "commensurate with experience". But we have actual range $57,500 - $62,500. That's specific. So we can include Pay section with that range. The phrase "commensurate with experience" is additional but we can include it as part of the description; but we must avoid heading followed only by filler. Since we have real range, it's okay. Benefits: The "About Us" section includes benefits description: "Our first-class benefits package includes medical, dental and life insurance plans, retirement plan options, employee and dependent tuition programs, generous leave, and hundreds of employee perks and discounts." That's specific benefits. So we can include Benefits section. Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should not include Schedule heading. Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe we could infer but we should not invent. So omit Skills. About the role: we have the initial paragraph. Could also include "About Us" but that's more about the university; maybe we could treat as "About the role" or "About Us". The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should map content accordingly. We have: - About the role: the initial job description paragraph. - Responsibilities: list. - Qualifications: includes Minimum Qualifications and Additional Info (background screening). Could also include "Requirements" maybe same as Qualifications? The instruction includes both Requirements and Qualifications headings. We need to decide what to put where. Usually Requirements = minimum qualifications, Qualifications = preferred? But we have only one set. We could put Requirements for the minimum qualifications and background screening, and Qualifications for degree equivalency clause? Or we could combine. But we must not create thin sections. Better to have one section for Qualifications (including degree equivalency) and maybe Requirements omitted. However we need to follow instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But headings are prescribed; we can omit sections if no real specific content. So we can choose to include only Qualifications (since we have specifics) and omit Requirements. Or we could include Requirements for the minimum qualifications and background screening, and Qualifications for degree equivalency clause. Both are substantive. Let's do that. Thus: - Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (Bachelor's + 1 yr experience or Master's; experience substitution; related experience examples). Also Additional Information for Applicants: Level 1 background screening. - Qualifications: Degree Equivalency Clause (Four years direct experience for bachelor's; Six years for master's). Could also include "Preferred qualifications"? Not present. So we can put that. - Benefits: benefits package description. - Pay: hiring salary range $57,500 - $62,500, commensurate with experience. We must not include fluff like "commensurate with experience" as only content; but we have range plus that phrase. It's okay. We must not include duplicated lines. Ensure we don't repeat the same info. Now produce HTML fragment:

    About the role

    This position is responsible for reviewing, administering, auditing and accounting for assigned contracts and awards made to USF from external sponsors (e.g., Federal, state, and private industry). This position monitors sponsored research projects for regulatory and statutory compliance and proper fulfillment of sponsor and University commitments made in the agreement. This position is also responsible for assisting departmental contacts such as faculty, Principal Investigators (PIs), and administrative staff by providing budget and financial information for the sponsored project, giving guidance and direction on proper budget/expenditure procedures and financial control.

    Responsibilities

    • Reviews contract and award terms and conditions to build appropriate and complete data files while maintaining the University's official records of project activity and reporting.
    • Manages the sponsor billing and reporting process, establishing cost sharing budgets and expenditure plans within University systems, assisting with modifications to budget and cost sharing plans with related system modifications, facilitating sponsor payments and drawdowns under letter of credit, assuring the sufficiency and allowability of cost sharing, monitoring consistency between financial elements including documentation of expenditure, cost sharing, and effort, and provides financial data to investigators and their staff in support of project management.
    • These fiscal management responsibilities require compliance with federal, state, and sponsor guidelines and rules, exceptional customer service delivery, and a focus on maximizing the University's collections and investment earnings.
    • Coordinates accounting functions to assure cash, budget, expenditures, and overall fiscal management in accordance with University policies and management objectives.
    • Serves as a liaison between academic administrators, faculty, the Controller's Office, Payroll, and the Office of Research to resolve financial issues and mitigate risk.
    • Works with sponsoring agencies to assure appropriate coordination and management of inter-entity financial processes such as billing, reporting, and cash management. (May also assist sponsors in obtaining technical reports, patent information, etc., as needed to complete project).
    • Determines the need for and secures review of those project accounts requiring special approvals, and notifies the appropriate agency.
    • Analyzes and assesses research activities and programs to facilitate collections and develop responses to granting agency inquiries and auditors based on a review of accounting data, award/contract terms and conditions, authoritative guidance (federal, state, and University), and discussions with University faculty and staff.
    • Collects accounting records and substantive documents in support of responses, as needed.
    • Miscellaneous administrative duties including preparing special reports that are related to the University's research program.

    Requirements

    • Bachelor's degree and 1 year of professional administrative experience; or a Master's degree.
    • Progressively responsible related experience may substitute for the required education on a year for year basis.
    • Related experience includes accounting, auditing, research administration, etc.
    • This position requires a Level 1 background screening.

    Qualifications

    • Degree Equivalency Clause: Four years of direct experience for a bachelor's degree.
    • Six years of direct experience for a master’s degree.

    Benefits

    Our first-class benefits package includes medical, dental and life insurance plans, retirement plan options, employee and dependent tuition programs, generous leave, and hundreds of employee perks and discounts.

    Pay

    Hiring salary range: $57,500 - $62,500, commensurate with experience.

    We should not include Schedule. Also ensure no extra whitespace lines? It's fine. Check for any boilerplate: we removed About Us, Compliance and Federal Notices, EEO, etc. Good. Check for duplicated lines: none. Check that we preserved all substantive info: The initial job description paragraph captured. Responsibilities captured all bullet points. Requirements captured minimum qualifications and background screening. Qualifications captured degree equivalency. Benefits captured. Pay captured. We omitted "Additional Information for Applicants: This position requires a Level 1 background screening." we placed that under Requirements. Good. We omitted "Hiring salary range: $57,500 - $62,500, commensurate with experience." placed under Pay. We omitted "About Us" paragraphs about university size etc. That's boilerplate? It's not required but could be considered "About Us" but not part of role. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "About Us
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