UNIV - Grants Administrator I - ORSP

About the role

This position is supervised by the ORSP Assistant Director and involves various grant and contract administration tasks across different ORSP Units (Corporate, Non-Corporate and Data/Reporting and Sub-awards).

Responsibilities

• Completes ORSP’s award-activation process.
• Reviews ORSP monthly awards reports for accuracy.
• Affords support for closeout reporting for foundation awards.
• Affords support for the outgoing sub-awards process.
• Reviews and assigns checks and ACH wire transfers for incoming award payments.
• Distributes ROI (record of invention) notices.
• Processes no-cost extension requests.
• Updates corporate awards in Cayuse by removing IRB restrictions and ensuring all AAHRPP items are addressed/documented to ensure compliance.
• Screens award notices and activates grant and contract awards.
• Supplements, non-competing continuations, budget revisions, advises faculty researcher and/or departmental research administration staff.
• Prepares and distributes the required award information to departments and the Office of Grants and Contracts Accounting.
• Reviews and assesses grant/contract proposals for fiscal/budgetary issues to ensure allocations are allowable.
• Serves as a liaison and resource to assigned areas within MUSC and to the awarding sponsors.
• Maintains Cayuse user, department and sponsor profiles, assigns/updates user accounts/roles in funding agency systems, maintains institutional profiles and passwords, and coordinates help desk requests.
• Acts as an internal ORSP IT/IS resource to assist with computer hardware procurement, inventory management, surplus of replaced or unused hardware, and to coordinate new hardware setup.
• Functions as webmaster for ORSP website. Keeps site updated and collaboratively designs additional pages and content as needed.
• Maintains and updates ORSP listserv membership as needed.
• Plans and participates in ORSP-provided training. Assists with development of training/learning materials, schedules, and promotes periodic ORSP and other MUSC research-administration-related trainings.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree and three years business, personnel, grant-in-aid or public administration experience.
• Knowledge of state and federal development and assistance programs.
• Knowledge of the principles and procedures involved in obtaining grant funds from various federal, state and local sources.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of public and business administration.
• Knowledge of government accounting and budgeting practices.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with grant recipients and with federal, state and local agencies.
• Ability to identify potential sources of funds.

Physical Requirements

• Continuous - 6-8 hours per shift: Ability to perform job functions in an upright position, perform job functions in a seated position, perform job functions while walking/mobile, work indoors.
• Frequent - 2-6 hours per shift: Ability to bend at the waist, perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders, reach in all directions, possess good finger dexterity, maintain tactile sensory functions, lift, carry, lower, push or pull objects 15 lbs or more, unassisted, maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, see and recognize objects close at hand, see and recognize objects at a distance, determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception, have good peripheral vision capabilities, hear and/or understand conversations, perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements, work in dusty areas.

Additional New Requirements

• Computer literacy.