The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, is seeking a motivated Grants & Contracts Analyst to support our innovative research activities.

Position Overview

The Grants & Contracts Analyst will provide dedicated professional-level sponsored funds management for more than 80% of time with specific responsibility for pre- and post-award functions including, but not be limited to, proposal preparation, submission, budget development, account maintenance and oversight, billing/invoicing, reporting, compliance, and closeout. Analyst will work independently on a variety of grants/contracts that range from simple to moderately complex. While this role may assist with some aspects of non-sponsored funds, the primary goal of this position is to ensure timely, effective and efficient functioning of sponsored funding. This is an exempt position.

Job Scope/Complexity

The Grants & Contracts Analyst will work independently the majority of the time, with primary support from senior/management level grant & contract professionals on increasingly more complex grants/contracts. The analyst will provide standard professional, administrative level guidance on protocols, regulations and guidelines to Principal Investigators and other scientific/research professionals within the department. The Grants & Contracts Analyst will also interact with external research/administrative professionals.

Types of sponsored awards for which the position is responsible

This role functions at an intermediate level, with responsibility for independent management of simple to moderately complex grants/contracts, including those from the NIH, NSF, DOD, AHA, and a myriad of unique public and private sponsors. These grants and contracts may involve detailed budgets, including subawards, special instructions in the RFA, career awards, training awards, multi-project grants, complex foundation grants, and subawards from other institutions on their federal pass-through grants.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Partner with departmental faculty investigators to prepare research proposal submissions for a variety of federal, private agency/foundation, and internal sponsors, in close collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Office of Research Administration (JHURA).
• Understand and utilize institutional policies for pre-award grant process and sponsor guidelines. Advise faculty and staff of changes to sponsored research policies as they become available.
• Review for accuracy, content, and adherence to all relevant guidelines all research proposals prior to submission to the Administrative Manager and JHURA.
• Provide instruction, preparation assistance, and support related to grant application procedures.
• Serve as liaison between research units, central offices and funding agencies for Investigators and their research personnel.
• Prepare and assist Investigators with budget and budget justification development. Ensure that all applicable fringe benefits, indirect costs and other fees have been applied in adherence with funding announcement, agency, university, and/or department guidelines, in addition to evaluating for accuracy and completeness of content.
• Coordinate and monitor new award setup for accuracy and ensure personnel salaries are assigned appropriately.
• Monitor award activity through monthly account review and reconciliation. Recommend and transact appropriate action to resolve issues.
• Provide routine and ad hoc communications to Investigators and administration.
• Pro-actively ensure spending is compliant, in accordance with institutional and sponsor regulations, terms, and conditions.
• Independently complete post-award responsibilities including budget distribution, account reconciliation, subaward requests and invoice review/processing, vendor payments, journal transfers, and payroll.
• Provide information and direct assistance required to complete contract and grant closeouts.
• Manage workload to ensure that proposal submissions and other date sensitive activities are accurate, consistent, and punctual.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Special Skills/Knowledge

• Knowledge of accounting and budgeting theory and practices required.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of the Johns Hopkins University?s accounting system and related fiscal offices preferred.
• Ability to make independent judgments and to act on decision on a daily basis
• Ability to work with flexibility on several tasks simultaneously and to meet various concurrent deadlines Knowledge of external Federal guidelines/procedures for grants and contracts, including NIH, NSF, DOD and NASA.
• Must possess strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Ideal candidate will be responsive, team-oriented, and able to work effectively with faculty, staff and students from a variety of diverse backgrounds.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Two years of administrative/budgeting experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
• Successful completion of the Research Administration Training Program (13-15 months) is equivalent to two years of relevant experience for this position. If an employee does not successfully complete the program, no additional experience will be applied.

• Experience managing large research projects.
• Demonstrated grant administration experience.
• Experience in liaison communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Classified Title: Grants & Contracts Analyst 
Role/Level/Range: ATP/03/PC  
Starting Salary Range: $53,800 - $94,400 Annually (Commensurate w/exp.) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: 37.5 hrs/wk, M-F 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/Homewood Campus 
Department name: ???????Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engrg  
Personnel area: Whiting School of Engineering 

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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