Associate Director, Sponsored Programs and Awards

Associate Director, Sponsored Programs and Awards

College of Arts & Sciences

Faculty Development

The College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University is transforming lives through our research advances, career-empowering teaching, and work with community partners in Atlanta and around the globe. As the largest college on the Atlanta Campus, the College of Arts and Sciences is home to more than 15,000 students, 550 faculty, and 300 staff members.

HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL DO:

The ideal candidate for this position will perform the complexity of the research administration Portfolio in the College of Arts & Sciences. This will include strategic decision-making, grant management, overseeing complex grant portfolios, developing strategic plans for post-award compliance, and leading initiatives to streamline grant processes.

The essential duties and responsibilities:

• Assists PIs in departments in interpreting and implementing federal, state, local, and sponsor-specific fiscal guidelines on sponsored awards.
• Assists in determining allowable and unallowable expenses on awards and managing the budget and actual expenses on sponsored awards in their portfolio.
• Supports the post-award team when issues are escalated and provides additional information/confirmation by utilizing high-quality and effective decision-making judgment to ensure a successful and compliant outcome is achieved.
• Directly supervises eight GCO positions.
• Responsible for training their direct report on managing their own sponsored portfolio, assigning departmental workloads and portfolios to each direct report, and reviewing and approving the work of each direct report.
• Intervenes in complex situations when needed.
• Provides yearly performance evaluations for their team.
• Collaborates with the Office of Sponsored Programs on procedures relating to research administration.
• Serving as the SME/Primary Post-Award resource for the college.
• Act as a backup for the Director when needed.
• Responsible for initiating post-award actions in the research portal and collaborating with OSP staff on post-award tasks.
• Responsible for approving post-award action items in the research portal for their direct reports.
• Responsible for performing expenditure reviews for projects in their portfolio and keeping spending projections of each project up to date.
• Responsible for disseminating expenditure review and spending projections to PIs on a monthly basis.
• Other duties assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree and four years of supervisory/management experience, or a combination of education and related experience.

Preferred Hiring Qualifications: Experience working in a university setting with sponsored grant funds, both federal and private. Certified Research Administrator. Experience with PeopleSoft, eRA Commons, and Fastlane.