GRANT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST LEAD-HSOM

Grant Management Specialist Lead-HSOM

To serve as a lead and key member of a team of grant advisors who is responsible for the entire grant development, submission, and management process for departments and their faculty in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM). To work to build an advisor-and-scientist relationship with investigators. To oversee pre-award and post-award research activities for a group of departments within the School of Medicine (SOM), while providing technical expertise and guidance, and ensuring adherence to all research sponsor and UAB guidelines, policies, and regulations. To partner directly with faculty to guide them through the grant development (pre-award) phase and provide guidance for post-award management, including leading the project management aspects and approach, drafting, developing and managing the grant's budget, completing document preparation and verification, making improvements to the administrative and scientific content, populating the grant’s submission portal (e.g., ASSIST, myUABresearch), and completing the grant’s initial and final submission to the UAB Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) as well as annual progress reports.

To serve as an advisor and reporting to the Manager-Grants Management Shared Svcs-HSOM, identifies, reviews and makes determinations on current funding opportunity announcements and their applicability to investigators and their related scientific research programs. To identify sponsor deadlines and to create a detailed project management plan tailored to specific Principal Investigators (PIs) to ensure a successful research proposal submission(s). To use productivity tools (e.g., MS Teams, Copilot) to proactively monitor a team’s pre- and post-award activities and their development plans to ensure the SOM Dean’s Office has the appropriate availability of resources for pre- and post-award activities and services. To provide faculty level training, presentations and identify areas of both institutional, federal, and other extramural support for investigative teams. To cultivate relationships with SOM faculty and staff and encourage collaborations with UAB faculty, UAB’s OSP, external institutions, foundations, and other collaborators. To work closely with the Manager to identify and plan the strategic development objectives and activities of the office. To create and develop monitoring tools, to collect and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data, create data analysis and visualization tools, and populate tracking mechanisms for award activities in the SOM.

Salary Range: $70,425 - $114,440

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a related field and five (5) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement. UAB is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, sex (including pregnancy), genetic information, age, disability, and veteran's status. As required by Title IX, UAB prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns or questions to UAB's Assistant Vice President and Senior Title IX Coordinator. The Title IX notice of nondiscrimination is located at uab.edu/titleix.