The Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist will work independently with grants, contracts, and clinical trial agreements from a variety of sponsors and funding agencies that may be federal, non-federal, state and local government, private foundations, and pharmaceutical companies. Will be responsible for all aspects of sponsor-facing grants management, including review and negotiation of award, internal account setup, sponsor approval requests and modifications, reporting, award compliance, and non-financial closeout. . The Senior GCS will coordinate with other department team members to ensure the award terms and conditions are met from award acceptance through close-out.

• Serves as expert advisor to faculty, and other departments for general inquiries and concerns.

• Provides official proposal review to check for errors, missing or incomplete information according to sponsor requirements and proposal guidelines.

• Forwards appropriate documents to signature official (SO) as needed.

• Coordinates timeline for proposal submissions.

• Submits the final approved proposal to the funding agency or sponsor.

• Responsible for negotiating legal terms and conditions for the industry sponsored clinical trial agreement.

• Forwards requests for patient-care budgets to the Clinical Trial Office (CTO) as needed.

• Responsible for review and contract negotiations.

• Responsible for award analysis and account set-up.

• Responsible for review and submission of the scientific progress report, JIT requests and other similar requests.

• Responsible for review and submission of administrative requests such as change in scope or key personnel, no-cost extensions, supplemental requests, etc.

• Responsible for updating department information systems and official records to keep information accurate, complete and up-to-date at all times.

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance

• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation

• Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation

• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication

• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers

• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance

• Assist with A-133 audit as requested.

• Participate in training and education sponsored by the department.

• Coordinate and communicate with other CNMC departments (legal, human resources, and finance) as needed.

• Partner in the mission and upholds the core principles of the organization

• Committed to diversity and recognizes value of cultural ethnic differences

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity

• Maintain confidentiality at all times

• Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior

• Partner with all team members to achieve goals

• Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions

• Contribute to a positive work environment

• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change

• Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes

• Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment

• Use resources efficiently

• Search for less costly ways of doing things