Senior Fund Manager

About the role

Serve as Senior Contracts and Grants Manager for the Department of Mathematics/Program in Computing with a total of $15 million in expenditures and 157 accounts.

Special Conditions for Employment: Background Check: Continued employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background investigation. Live Scan Background Check: A Live Scan background check must be completed prior to the start of employment.

Responsibilities

• Advanced financial analysis, compliance monitoring and accounting of federal, state, and private contract/grant funding sources.
• Administer grants from pre-award through post-award with proactive adherence to compliance with Agency regulations and University policies.
• Prepare and submit extramurally funded research proposals and budgets.
• Actively monitor funds on a monthly basis, and produce quarterly financial reports to deliver coherent and concise financial information to principal investigators.
• Establish and maintain a dynamic and effective working relationship with faculty, staff, students, other campus units.
• Conduct special projects.

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of pre- and post-award extramural activity from federal and state funded grants and private foundation awards.
• Demonstrated ability to apply advanced financial and accounting principles to develop and monitor accounts using spreadsheet and database technology.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare budgets for extramural funds in accordance with University and funding agency guidelines and policies.
• Demonstrated skill to accurately reconcile, analyze, project and report financial status.
• Advanced knowledge of contract and grant policies, procedures and practices; demonstrated knowledge of federal, state and private funding policies and procedures.
• Working knowledge of personnel recruitment, hiring, payroll and personnel policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated skill in the use of UCLA on‑line systems including UCPath, EDB, Bruin Buy, Travel Express, QDB, TOF, NPEAR, OFSR, Fastlane, S2S, EFM Close Out Tool, ERAS, and others.
• Demonstrated skill in compiling and organizing information and statistics for reports and reviews.
• Demonstrated skill in writing concise, logical and grammatically correct correspondence and reports for a variety of uses.
• Excellent communication skills to provide or obtain information, explain policies and procedures, and to persuade others to accept proposed actions or ideas.
• Skill in analyzing information, problems, situations, practices or procedures to define the problem or objective; identify relevant concerns or factors; identify patterns, tendencies and relations; formulate logical and objective conclusions; and recognize alternatives and their implications.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise support personnel including organizing objectives, delegating responsibility, training, evaluating subordinate effectiveness and administering necessary discipline.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training (Required)

Schedule

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.