Senior Manager, Grants

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a resource and subject-matter expert for grants management, offering guidance to faculty, departments, and staff across the CCC.
• Review proposals submitted by departments to ensure compliance and adherence to school and sponsor requirements.
• Pull data and analyze trends to support decision-making and strategic planning within the school.
• Address complex problems related to grant submissions and award management, collaborating with central offices and sponsors as needed.
• Support proposals from the CCC Dean's office, including submissions for leadership personnel.
• Provide pre-award and post-award assistance and training for the CCC grants managers.
• Provide expert guidance on proposal development, including budget preparation, sponsor certifications, compliance, and administrative requirements.
• Ensure school-level approvals are included in proposal attachments.
• Collaborate with faculty and departmental staff to meet sponsor deadlines and requirements.
• Perform application submission.
• Identify and resolve issues during the proposal preparation and submission process.
• Oversee the setup of newly funded awards to ensure alignment with institutional and sponsor guidelines.
• Act as a liaison with central administrative offices to facilitate award activation and fund management.
• Ensures that the post-award operation is running smoothly.
• Creates budget reconciliation and forecasting reports and uses these reports to meet regularly with faculty to review their financial situations.
• Ensures compliance with requirements such as effort reporting, financial & progress reporting.
• Serves as a Human Capital Management (HCM) Costing Specialist, managing payroll.
• Completes timely journal entries as necessary, grant closeouts, etc.
• Assists with rate setting/implementation for PI/Faculty run Service Center(s).
• Processing of salary verification letters related to proposal submission.
• Perform other duties as assigned by leadership to support grants management operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in finance, accounting, business, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of pre-award and post-award grants management experience.
• Strong knowledge of federal and non-federal grant regulations and compliance requirements.
• Exceptional organizational, time management, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and grants management systems.
• Experience working with faculty on complex awards and familiarity with a variety of sponsors.
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines.
• Advanced understanding of research compliance and sponsor-specific regulations.
• Familiarity with the Vanderbilt University grants management ecosystem.