Post Award Grants Administrator

Inside Philanthropy, INC.; Remote; GBP 67,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent nonprofit organization is seeking a Post Award Grants Administrator in Kettering, England. This role involves managing financial controls for research grants, ensuring compliance with regulations, and maintaining budgets for clinical trials. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and have experience in research administration. The position offers a remote work option and a competitive salary range of $90,700 to $145,300.

Qualifications

• Experience in research administration within a healthcare environment.
• Knowledge of billing compliance and milestone payments.
• Ability to establish and maintain budgets for research awards.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial control of departments and funding expenditures.
• Advise on funding availability and potential issues.
• Ensure grants management rules are understood and followed.

Skills

Post-award experience supporting industry-sponsored clinical trials

Strong knowledge of clinical trial budgets

Familiarity with CTAs and federal regulations

Proficiency with Microsoft Office

Effective communication

Tools

BI tools (Tableau/Cognos preferred)

Job description

About Us:

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue their mission at MSK and around the globe.

Exciting Opportunity at MSK: Join MSK as a Post Award Grants Administrator in the Research Financial Management (RFM) unit! We're looking for a dynamic research administration professional eager to showcase financial management and collaboration skills and make a significant impact in our research enterprise.

Role Overview:

• Assume financial control of assigned departments and review funding expenditures by the investigators. Monitor cost allowability, administrative reasonableness, appropriate award applicability, and funding availability.
• Establish management and administrative controls for all grants, contracts, and other research funding mechanisms. Advise investigators and department administration about funding availability and potential issues.
• Ensure rules for grants management are understood, disseminated, and followed. This includes supervising federal sources, voluntary agencies, industrial contracts, philanthropic sources, and MSK institutional policy.
• In collaboration with the investigator, establish and maintain annual budgets for research awards. Act as a resource for research investigators supporting financial award management. Be a point of contact between the investigator and the awarding agencies.
• Maintain discretion for confidential information and appropriately handle critical information and sensitive situations.

Key Qualifications:

• Post‑award experience supporting industry‑sponsored clinical trials in a healthcare or academic research setting.
• Strong knowledge of clinical trial budgets, milestone payments, pass‑through costs, and billing compliance.
• Familiarity with CTAs, federal regulations, GCP, and sponsor requirements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; experience with BI tools (Tableau/Cognos preferred).
• Effective communicator with demonstrated success partnering with investigators and study teams.

Core Skills:

• Outstanding communication and self‑awareness, able to effectively interact with faculty and administrators.
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining professional and courteous service to our customers.
• Proactive and resilient to adapt to change and innovations.
• Maintain high work standards and integrity of financial principles and stewardship with minimum supervision.
• Collaborative and comfortable working as part of a team to interpret policies and procedures.
• Critical thinking and problem solving, exercising good judgment to solve problems and complete work efficiently.
• Accurate in developing and leading budgets, projecting expenditures, and leading recommended solutions.

Additional Information:

• Location: Remote
• Schedule: Monday‑Friday, 37.5 hrs.
• Reporting to Manager, Research Financial Management.

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• MSK Compensation Philosophy
• Review our great benefits offerings

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Pay Range: $90,700.00 - $145,300.00 FSLA Status: Exempt

Closing

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