What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grants & Contract Specialist position at Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern?
Job Summary
Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) is a joint venture to build upon the scientific excellence of UT Southwestern Medical Center and the clinical expertise of Children’s Medical Center. CRI’s mission is to perform transformative biomedical research to better understand the biological basis of disease, seeking breakthroughs that can yield new strategies for treating disease. CRI is creating interdisciplinary groups of scientists and physicians to pursue research at the interface of regenerative medicine, cancer biology, and metabolism, fields that hold uncommon potential for advancing science and medicine.
We are seeking a bright and energetic Grants & Contract Specialist to provide support to CRI faculty and their labs in research grant proposal development and submission, grants and contracts financial management, financial forecasting and review, and interpretation of complex institutional and government policies. The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is detail-oriented, analytical, organized, and has a high degree of accuracy.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Manages pre- and post-award grant activities in support of an assigned portfolio of grants and contracts within
one or more laboratories
inconsistencies. Analyzes variations in forecasts and actual performance. Determines reasons for variance.
Develops recommendations for improvement and completes written summaries of financial data.
corrections to award budgets, preparing financial reports, and at the end of the award, ensuring all financial
requirements have been met, and closing out the award.
reports to various government agencies, ensuring conformance of such reports with applicable procedures and
regulations of University of Texas System and Federal and State agencies.
and knowledge of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and awareness of federal rules and regulations
related to research grant and contract activity.
Ideal Qualifications
responsibility in finance and / or accounting with experience in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis.
Master’s degree preferred.
