What are the responsibilities and job description for the Post Award Specialist, Senior position at Nemours?
Job Description
Nemours is seeking a Senior Post Award Specialist to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington, DE, Jacksonville, FL, or Orlando, FL. This is a remote position.
Under the direction of the Post Award manager, the Sr. Post Award Specialist provides post-award services/oversight to help Nemours research investigators administer the awards after they are received. The Sr. Post Award Specialist is a senior level position that acts as a liaison between the Principal Investigator (PI), Sponsored Projects Administration(SPA), Sponsored Projects Donation Accounting (SPDA), The OSP Award Specialist II is responsible for providing services in various aspects of the proposal preparation phase, including interpretation of the sponsoring agency's guidelines, budget development, gathering documentation to support sub awards and subcontracts, coordination of required approvals, and assisting in the regulatory requirements. Incumbent is responsible for the oversight and management of assigned PI research portfolios in terms of reviewing expenditures, reconciling award financials (budget, expense, and revenue), providing proactive financial information including projections, resolving financial discrepancies, reviewing and submitting cost transfers, and managing the award closeout process. The Sr. Post Award Specialist is responsible for helping manage a research portfolio of approximately $15M in internal and extramural funding/expenditures and to serve as a subject matter expert within the Post Award department for problem resolution for PI’s, Nemours associates, and external entities as needed.
Essential Functions
Bachelor Degree required; Accounting or Finance Degree is preferred
CRA, CPRA, and/or CFRA preferred
Minimum 5 years of experience in an academic or non-academic research healthcare organization is required
About Us
Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.
As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build a diverse and inclusive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.
To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .
Nemours is seeking a Senior Post Award Specialist to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington, DE, Jacksonville, FL, or Orlando, FL. This is a remote position.
Under the direction of the Post Award manager, the Sr. Post Award Specialist provides post-award services/oversight to help Nemours research investigators administer the awards after they are received. The Sr. Post Award Specialist is a senior level position that acts as a liaison between the Principal Investigator (PI), Sponsored Projects Administration(SPA), Sponsored Projects Donation Accounting (SPDA), The OSP Award Specialist II is responsible for providing services in various aspects of the proposal preparation phase, including interpretation of the sponsoring agency's guidelines, budget development, gathering documentation to support sub awards and subcontracts, coordination of required approvals, and assisting in the regulatory requirements. Incumbent is responsible for the oversight and management of assigned PI research portfolios in terms of reviewing expenditures, reconciling award financials (budget, expense, and revenue), providing proactive financial information including projections, resolving financial discrepancies, reviewing and submitting cost transfers, and managing the award closeout process. The Sr. Post Award Specialist is responsible for helping manage a research portfolio of approximately $15M in internal and extramural funding/expenditures and to serve as a subject matter expert within the Post Award department for problem resolution for PI’s, Nemours associates, and external entities as needed.
Essential Functions
- Manage funded projects, including Clinical Trials, in compliance with Nemours policies and standard operating procedures; when applicable, with consideration to external audits according to OMB (Office of Management and Budget), Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and other federal and state guidelines.
- Create project number, update effort allocations, & create RSUBs when applicable.
- Responsible for post-award services including, timely set-up of project account, day-to-day expense to budget financial management, analyze agreements and grant awards to determine administrative restrictions, review expense allowability, compute projections to ensure proper spending.
- Complete quarterly financial meetings with all PIs
- Review and monitor subcontracts; create and maintain records of Research Subcontracts (RSUB) Purchase Orders (PO) for subrecipient PI invoice review and approval.
- Review, analyze and approve expenditures and related documentations,
- Process labor and non-labor cost transfers in accordance to sponsor allowability & requirements.
- Monitor expenditures, analyze variance of actual costs versus budget.
- Maintain updated financial projections according to activity dates and budget variances.
- Partner with Post-Award Accounting on project number set-up, financial reviews, reconciliations, projections, close-outs, and final financial reporting (FFR).
- Ensure timely submission of the technical progress reports or deliverables by principal investigators in accordance with grant guidelines or contract provisions
Bachelor Degree required; Accounting or Finance Degree is preferred
CRA, CPRA, and/or CFRA preferred
Minimum 5 years of experience in an academic or non-academic research healthcare organization is required
About Us
Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.
As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build a diverse and inclusive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.
To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .
