Grants & Research Analyst III

Job Description Summary

The Grants & Research Analyst III reports to the MUSC Health Grants and Research Director as part of the Office of Academic Integration, a team dedicated to shaping the future of healthcare in South Carolina through innovation, research, and collaboration. This position provides grants administration, financial, and compliance support across the sponsored-award lifecycle, helping the Grants and Research Office manage awards accurately, stay audit-ready, and improve performance.

Key System Responsibilities and Tools

• Cayuse
• OnCore
• Workday
• Smartsheet
• EPIC
• Other supporting research and financial management software

Entity Information

• Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)
• Worker Type: Employee
• Worker Sub-Type: Regular
• Cost Center: CC005272 SYS - MUHA Research
• Pay Rate Type: Salary
• Pay Grade: Health-29
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Work Shift: Not specified

Position Purpose

• Collaborative contributor to enhance research operations, ensure compliance, streamline award management, and improve decision-making processes across MUSC.
• Support the growth of MUSC's research and sponsored programs portfolio by integrating grants data into intelligent business solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the team with internal audit controls to ensure payroll integrity, fraud detection, fixed asset reporting, and supports the A-133 audit to assure sponsored-award compliance (25%).
• Serve as backup for, and provide training on, pre-award and post-award management of all sponsored-award processes (15%).
• Generate inventories of provider agreement contracts, perform level-of-effort analyses, and build financial compensation projection models for proposals and amendments (10%).
• Aid the Grants and Contracts Accounting (GCA) team with monitoring financial issues to ensure accurate award invoices, track payments, and prepare executive summaries for RHN Chief Medical Officers and Chief Financial Officers (10%).
• Collaborate with the ORSP and OCR teams to analyze sponsored-award data elements, emphasizing efficiency, fund utilization, and sponsor deliverable compliance (10%).
• Develop dashboards, charts, reports, and master schedules for grants and contract deliverables, and build automated reminders in Smartsheet (20%).
• Perform other special projects and duties as assigned (5%).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in research or grants administration, sponsored-programs or award management, and working in an academic medical center.
• Working knowledge of sponsored-award compliance (for example, Uniform Guidance / A-133) and pre-award and post-award processes.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite.
• PREFERRED: Experience in Cayuse, OnCore, Workday, Smartsheet, Power BI, and a successful track record working with other team members to develop strategic solutions for consolidating data from various platforms.

Additional Information

• MUSC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• MUSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by state laws and/or federal regulations.
• All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need.
• MUSC participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.