Sponsored Research Administrator
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content: About The Department (we can map to "About the role"? but better to use heading that matches content: maybe "About the Department". However instruction says use those example headings, but we can use any heading as long as it's . Probably we should use headings that reflect content: "About the Department", "Responsibilities", "Qualifications", "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule". Also maybe "Skills"? Not needed. We'll include Pay and Schedule if present. Pay: "Anticipated Hiring Range $65,000 - $73,525 (Commensurate with education and experience)" - that's pay info, but includes "Commensurate with education and experience" which is placeholder? It's a range, so we can include Pay section with that range. Schedule: "Work Schedule Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; position may be eligible for a flexible work schedule. Adjustments to the schedule are occasionally required to accommodate rigid sponsor proposal deadlines." That's schedule info, include Schedule section.
Benefits: there is a "Wolfpack Perks And Benefits" section with list. Include Benefits.
Responsibilities: "Essential Job Duties" and "Detailed Description Of Core Responsibilities". We'll combine into Responsibilities.
Qualifications: "Minimum Education and Experience", "Other Required Qualifications", "Preferred Qualifications", "Required License(s) Or Certification(s)". We'll include Qualifications.
We should not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, disclaimer, etc. Also remove "Other Responsibilities Other duties as assigned." maybe include as part of responsibilities? It's generic; we could include but it's not specific. Might be okay to include but it's not substantive. Probably we can include as part of responsibilities but it's generic. Might be okay to keep.
We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" only if it's the only content. For Pay we have actual range plus note; we can include.
We must not include sections like Skills if not present.
We must output only HTML fragment, no /. Use headings, - for lists,
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract.
About The Department paragraph: multiple sentences. We'll put in
.
Responsibilities: we have "Essential Job Duties" paragraph then "Detailed Description Of Core Responsibilities" with subparts: Pre-Award Portfolio Management & Proposal Development (with bullet-like sentences), Post-Award Financial Management..., Model Alignment..., etc. We'll convert each bullet-like sentence into
- . Might be many. We'll parse.
Let's list responsibilities sentences:
From "Essential Job Duties":
- The College of Engineering is looking to hire multiple Sponsored Research Administrators ( SRA ) within the newly established college-managed operating model, responsible for orchestrating both pre-award and post-award lifecycles for an assigned departmental faculty portfolio.
- While the incumbent is physically co-located within a department to provide high-touch, localized customer service, the position is an integral part of the centralized College ORA team.
- The primary purpose of this role is to apply advanced accounting principles, federal/state regulations, and university guidelines to ensure the fiscal and administrative integrity of all sponsored projects.
- Operating under this modernized model, the incumbent must balance localized portfolio execution with central compliance directives, actively participating in college-wide resource-sharing and standardized service-level agreements (SLAs).
Then "Detailed Description Of Core Responsibilities" sections:
Pre-Award Portfolio Management & Proposal Development:
- Localized Faculty Consultation: Partner directly with PIs in the embedded unit to develop accurate, compliant proposal budgets and detailed justifications from initial concept through final submission.
- Standardized Regulatory Screening: Analyze complex agency Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to ensure strict alignment with F&A rules, cost-sharing restrictions, budget caps, and direct cost allowability, reducing front-end submission errors.
- Institutional System Management: Fully execute and route records within institutional software suites, including RED Proposal Development, ensuring data integrity is validated at the departmental level before final central routing.
- Electronic Research Administration (eRA): Build, format, and package proposal submissions within varied sponsor portals (Research.gov, GRANTS .gov, eRA Commons, ASSIST ), acting as the localized technical expert for the department’s faculty.
Post-Award Financial Management, Forecasting & Closeout:
- Award Onboarding & Budget Translation: Review select incoming award notices alongside the PI to establish accurate internal ledger setups, ensuring F&A is calculated correctly based on MTDC or TDC parameters.
- Compliance Monitoring & Risk Mitigation: Perform continuous financial analysis of active grant ledgers. Monitor expenditures for accuracy, allowability, and strict compliance with Cost Accounting Standards ( CAS ), Uniform Guidance, state rules, and university policies.
- Projections & Planning Models: Build multi-year spending projections and variance analysis models for faculty to optimize fund utilization, prevent over-expenditures, and manage labor distributions/personnel charges.
- Reconciliations & Cost-Share Tracking: Audit human resource expenditures, travel vouchers, and procurement charges against grant terms. Track, document, and report mandatory or voluntary committed cost-sharing obligations.
- Lifecycle Closeouts: Execute comprehensive closeouts for expiring grant segments. Prepare and process Project Modification Requests (PMRs) for budget modifications, no-cost extensions, or residual balance distributions, ensuring audit-ready documentation is permanently archived.
Model Alignment, Cross-Coverage & Leadership:
- Matrixed Team Collaboration: Actively participate in the broader College ORA network to ensure alignment with university-wide research administration standards. Navigate the dual priorities of central College compliance policy and local departmental workflow.
- Cross-College Workload Balancing: Participate in the new model’s agile resource framework, willingly stepping in to provide temporary pre- or post-award coverage for other COE departments during peak submission cycles or staff absences to maintain college-wide continuity.
- Faculty Onboarding & Training: Develop and deliver targeted resources, onboarding guides, or info-sessions for new faculty and departmental business officers regarding centralized ORA standard operating procedures and financial management tools.
Other Responsibilities: "Other duties as assigned." (maybe we can include as a li but it's generic; maybe we can omit as not substantive.)
We'll include all above as li under a ul.
Qualifications:
Minimum Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
- All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.
Other Required Qualifications:
- Proven ability to work successfully and adapt within a matrixed, shared-services, or centrally managed/departmentally embedded operational model.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including experience building financial spreadsheets, tracking formulas, and data analysis.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to navigate stakeholder relationships with consultative diplomacy.
- Strong organizational skills and the capacity to balance localized faculty needs with central compliance frameworks under rigid deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience in university research administration encompassing both pre-award proposal development and post-award financial management.
- 3+ years of experience in university research administration within an R1 research institution.
- Deep working knowledge of Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200), Cost Accounting Standards, and rules governing major federal sponsors ( NSF , NIH , DOD , NASA , DOE ).
- Direct experience utilizing NC State systems or equivalent institutional frameworks: RED PT, PD and PAM , PeopleSoft Financials, and Wolf Reports.
- Certified Research Administrator ( CRA ) or Certified Professional Pre-Award/Post-Award Research Administrator ( CPRA / CFRA ) credential.
Required License(s) Or Certification(s):
- N/A (maybe we can omit as it's N/A, but it's a qualifier; but instruction says do not create sections with filler like "N/A". This is a qualification but it's N/A; we could omit this line as it's not substantive. Probably better to omit.
We'll not include Required License(s) Or Certification(s) if it's N/A.
Pay: "Anticipated Hiring Range $65,000 - $73,525 (Commensurate with education and experience)". We'll output as
maybe inside Pay section.
Schedule: "Work Schedule Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; position may be eligible for a flexible work schedule. Adjustments to the schedule are occasionally required to accommodate rigid sponsor proposal deadlines."
Benefits: list from "Wolfpack Perks And Benefits". Let's extract list items:
- Medical , Dental , and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Programs
- Disability Plans
- Life Insurance
- Accident Plan
- Paid Time Off and Other Leave Programs
- 12 Holidays Each Year
- Tuition and Academic Assistance
- Childcare benefits
- Wellness & Recreation Membership
- Wellness Programs
Also "And so much more!" and disclaimer about eligibility. We'll include the concrete items.
We'll format as
- each.
Now construct HTML:
About the Department
... paragraph ...
Responsibilities
... li ...
Qualifications
... li ...
Benefits
... li ...
Pay
$65,000 - $73,525 (commensurate with education and experience)
Schedule
Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; position may be eligible for a flexible work schedule. Adjustments to the schedule are occasionally required to accommodate rigid sponsor proposal deadlines.
We need to ensure we didn't repeat job title. Good.
Check for any boilerplate removed: EEO, disclaimer, etc.
Now craft the About the Department paragraph: combine the two paragraphs? There's "About The Department" then a paragraph describing ORA. We'll combine into one .
Let's write:
The College of Engineering ( COE ) Office of Research Administration ( ORA ) operates under a college-managed, departmentally embedded operating model designed to deliver standardized, high-quality administrative infrastructure and regulatory safeguarding for the College’s extensive, multi-million dollar sponsored research portfolio. Under this unified organizational structure, research administration professionals are centrally employed, trained, and evaluated by the College’s ORA , but are strategically deployed and embedded directly within individual academic departments and units. This matrixed model merges the benefits of centralized institutional oversight—such as equitable workload balancing, continuous professional development, and uniform compliance tracking—with the agile, relationship-driven advantages of local integration. Embedded staff act as direct, day-to-day strategic partners to principal investigators (PIs), faculty, and departmental leadership, providing seamless cradle-to-grave support tailored to the unique research nuances of their assigned units. Collectively, this distributed network manages an exceptional volume of activity across all departments and units in the College, processing over 1,100 research proposals and administering more than 800 new awards, continuations, and supplements annually. Because the research administration landscape is shaped by shifting federal mandates (including Uniform Guidance and Cost Accounting Standards), state policies, and evolving Electronic Research Administration (eRA) platforms, the ORA ensures absolute institutional compliance. Operating as a high-volume, strictly deadline-driven organization, the unit mitigates severe financial, legal, and reputational risks while optimizing NC State’s competitive edge in securing external funding.
Now Responsibilities list: we need to include all
headings, - for lists,
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract.
About The Department paragraph: multiple sentences. We'll put in
.
Responsibilities: we have "Essential Job Duties" paragraph then "Detailed Description Of Core Responsibilities" with subparts: Pre-Award Portfolio Management & Proposal Development (with bullet-like sentences), Post-Award Financial Management..., Model Alignment..., etc. We'll convert each bullet-like sentence into
- . Might be many. We'll parse.
Let's list responsibilities sentences:
From "Essential Job Duties":
- The College of Engineering is looking to hire multiple Sponsored Research Administrators ( SRA ) within the newly established college-managed operating model, responsible for orchestrating both pre-award and post-award lifecycles for an assigned departmental faculty portfolio.
- While the incumbent is physically co-located within a department to provide high-touch, localized customer service, the position is an integral part of the centralized College ORA team.
- The primary purpose of this role is to apply advanced accounting principles, federal/state regulations, and university guidelines to ensure the fiscal and administrative integrity of all sponsored projects.
- Operating under this modernized model, the incumbent must balance localized portfolio execution with central compliance directives, actively participating in college-wide resource-sharing and standardized service-level agreements (SLAs).
Then "Detailed Description Of Core Responsibilities" sections:
Pre-Award Portfolio Management & Proposal Development:
- Localized Faculty Consultation: Partner directly with PIs in the embedded unit to develop accurate, compliant proposal budgets and detailed justifications from initial concept through final submission.
- Standardized Regulatory Screening: Analyze complex agency Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to ensure strict alignment with F&A rules, cost-sharing restrictions, budget caps, and direct cost allowability, reducing front-end submission errors.
- Institutional System Management: Fully execute and route records within institutional software suites, including RED Proposal Development, ensuring data integrity is validated at the departmental level before final central routing.
- Electronic Research Administration (eRA): Build, format, and package proposal submissions within varied sponsor portals (Research.gov, GRANTS .gov, eRA Commons, ASSIST ), acting as the localized technical expert for the department’s faculty.
Post-Award Financial Management, Forecasting & Closeout:
- Award Onboarding & Budget Translation: Review select incoming award notices alongside the PI to establish accurate internal ledger setups, ensuring F&A is calculated correctly based on MTDC or TDC parameters.
- Compliance Monitoring & Risk Mitigation: Perform continuous financial analysis of active grant ledgers. Monitor expenditures for accuracy, allowability, and strict compliance with Cost Accounting Standards ( CAS ), Uniform Guidance, state rules, and university policies.
- Projections & Planning Models: Build multi-year spending projections and variance analysis models for faculty to optimize fund utilization, prevent over-expenditures, and manage labor distributions/personnel charges.
- Reconciliations & Cost-Share Tracking: Audit human resource expenditures, travel vouchers, and procurement charges against grant terms. Track, document, and report mandatory or voluntary committed cost-sharing obligations.
- Lifecycle Closeouts: Execute comprehensive closeouts for expiring grant segments. Prepare and process Project Modification Requests (PMRs) for budget modifications, no-cost extensions, or residual balance distributions, ensuring audit-ready documentation is permanently archived.
Model Alignment, Cross-Coverage & Leadership:
- Matrixed Team Collaboration: Actively participate in the broader College ORA network to ensure alignment with university-wide research administration standards. Navigate the dual priorities of central College compliance policy and local departmental workflow.
- Cross-College Workload Balancing: Participate in the new model’s agile resource framework, willingly stepping in to provide temporary pre- or post-award coverage for other COE departments during peak submission cycles or staff absences to maintain college-wide continuity.
- Faculty Onboarding & Training: Develop and deliver targeted resources, onboarding guides, or info-sessions for new faculty and departmental business officers regarding centralized ORA standard operating procedures and financial management tools.
Other Responsibilities: "Other duties as assigned." (maybe we can include as a li but it's generic; maybe we can omit as not substantive.)
We'll include all above as li under a ul.
Qualifications:
Minimum Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
- All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.
Other Required Qualifications:
- Proven ability to work successfully and adapt within a matrixed, shared-services, or centrally managed/departmentally embedded operational model.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including experience building financial spreadsheets, tracking formulas, and data analysis.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to navigate stakeholder relationships with consultative diplomacy.
- Strong organizational skills and the capacity to balance localized faculty needs with central compliance frameworks under rigid deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience in university research administration encompassing both pre-award proposal development and post-award financial management.
- 3+ years of experience in university research administration within an R1 research institution.
- Deep working knowledge of Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200), Cost Accounting Standards, and rules governing major federal sponsors ( NSF , NIH , DOD , NASA , DOE ).
- Direct experience utilizing NC State systems or equivalent institutional frameworks: RED PT, PD and PAM , PeopleSoft Financials, and Wolf Reports.
- Certified Research Administrator ( CRA ) or Certified Professional Pre-Award/Post-Award Research Administrator ( CPRA / CFRA ) credential.
Required License(s) Or Certification(s):
- N/A (maybe we can omit as it's N/A, but it's a qualifier; but instruction says do not create sections with filler like "N/A". This is a qualification but it's N/A; we could omit this line as it's not substantive. Probably better to omit.
We'll not include Required License(s) Or Certification(s) if it's N/A.
Pay: "Anticipated Hiring Range $65,000 - $73,525 (Commensurate with education and experience)". We'll output as
maybe inside Pay section.
Schedule: "Work Schedule Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; position may be eligible for a flexible work schedule. Adjustments to the schedule are occasionally required to accommodate rigid sponsor proposal deadlines."
Benefits: list from "Wolfpack Perks And Benefits". Let's extract list items:
- Medical , Dental , and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Programs
- Disability Plans
- Life Insurance
- Accident Plan
- Paid Time Off and Other Leave Programs
- 12 Holidays Each Year
- Tuition and Academic Assistance
- Childcare benefits
- Wellness & Recreation Membership
- Wellness Programs
Also "And so much more!" and disclaimer about eligibility. We'll include the concrete items.
We'll format as
- each.
Now construct HTML:
About the Department
... paragraph ...
Responsibilities
... li ...
Qualifications
... li ...
Benefits
... li ...
Pay
$65,000 - $73,525 (commensurate with education and experience)
Schedule
Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; position may be eligible for a flexible work schedule. Adjustments to the schedule are occasionally required to accommodate rigid sponsor proposal deadlines.
We need to ensure we didn't repeat job title. Good.
Check for any boilerplate removed: EEO, disclaimer, etc.
Now craft the About the Department paragraph: combine the two paragraphs? There's "About The Department" then a paragraph describing ORA. We'll combine into one .
Let's write:
The College of Engineering ( COE ) Office of Research Administration ( ORA ) operates under a college-managed, departmentally embedded operating model designed to deliver standardized, high-quality administrative infrastructure and regulatory safeguarding for the College’s extensive, multi-million dollar sponsored research portfolio. Under this unified organizational structure, research administration professionals are centrally employed, trained, and evaluated by the College’s ORA , but are strategically deployed and embedded directly within individual academic departments and units. This matrixed model merges the benefits of centralized institutional oversight—such as equitable workload balancing, continuous professional development, and uniform compliance tracking—with the agile, relationship-driven advantages of local integration. Embedded staff act as direct, day-to-day strategic partners to principal investigators (PIs), faculty, and departmental leadership, providing seamless cradle-to-grave support tailored to the unique research nuances of their assigned units. Collectively, this distributed network manages an exceptional volume of activity across all departments and units in the College, processing over 1,100 research proposals and administering more than 800 new awards, continuations, and supplements annually. Because the research administration landscape is shaped by shifting federal mandates (including Uniform Guidance and Cost Accounting Standards), state policies, and evolving Electronic Research Administration (eRA) platforms, the ORA ensures absolute institutional compliance. Operating as a high-volume, strictly deadline-driven organization, the unit mitigates severe financial, legal, and reputational risks while optimizing NC State’s competitive edge in securing external funding.
Now Responsibilities list: we need to include all
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract. About The Department paragraph: multiple sentences. We'll put in
. Responsibilities: we have "Essential Job Duties" paragraph then "Detailed Description Of Core Responsibilities" with subparts: Pre-Award Portfolio Management & Proposal Development (with bullet-like sentences), Post-Award Financial Management..., Model Alignment..., etc. We'll convert each bullet-like sentence into
maybe inside Pay section. Schedule: "Work Schedule Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; position may be eligible for a flexible work schedule. Adjustments to the schedule are occasionally required to accommodate rigid sponsor proposal deadlines." Benefits: list from "Wolfpack Perks And Benefits". Let's extract list items: - Medical , Dental , and Vision - Flexible Spending Account - Retirement Programs - Disability Plans - Life Insurance - Accident Plan - Paid Time Off and Other Leave Programs - 12 Holidays Each Year - Tuition and Academic Assistance - Childcare benefits - Wellness & Recreation Membership - Wellness Programs Also "And so much more!" and disclaimer about eligibility. We'll include the concrete items. We'll format as
- each.
Now construct HTML:
About the Department
... paragraph ...
Responsibilities
- ... li ...
Qualifications
- ... li ...
Benefits
- ... li ...
Pay
$65,000 - $73,525 (commensurate with education and experience)
Schedule
Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; position may be eligible for a flexible work schedule. Adjustments to the schedule are occasionally required to accommodate rigid sponsor proposal deadlines.
We need to ensure we didn't repeat job title. Good. Check for any boilerplate removed: EEO, disclaimer, etc. Now craft the About the Department paragraph: combine the two paragraphs? There's "About The Department" then a paragraph describing ORA. We'll combine into one. Let's write: The College of Engineering ( COE ) Office of Research Administration ( ORA ) operates under a college-managed, departmentally embedded operating model designed to deliver standardized, high-quality administrative infrastructure and regulatory safeguarding for the College’s extensive, multi-million dollar sponsored research portfolio. Under this unified organizational structure, research administration professionals are centrally employed, trained, and evaluated by the College’s ORA , but are strategically deployed and embedded directly within individual academic departments and units. This matrixed model merges the benefits of centralized institutional oversight—such as equitable workload balancing, continuous professional development, and uniform compliance tracking—with the agile, relationship-driven advantages of local integration. Embedded staff act as direct, day-to-day strategic partners to principal investigators (PIs), faculty, and departmental leadership, providing seamless cradle-to-grave support tailored to the unique research nuances of their assigned units. Collectively, this distributed network manages an exceptional volume of activity across all departments and units in the College, processing over 1,100 research proposals and administering more than 800 new awards, continuations, and supplements annually. Because the research administration landscape is shaped by shifting federal mandates (including Uniform Guidance and Cost Accounting Standards), state policies, and evolving Electronic Research Administration (eRA) platforms, the ORA ensures absolute institutional compliance. Operating as a high-volume, strictly deadline-driven organization, the unit mitigates severe financial, legal, and reputational risks while optimizing NC State’s competitive edge in securing external funding. Now Responsibilities list: we need to include all