The Department of Ophthalmology is seeking a Sr. Grants and Contracts Analyst. This position will provide professional level sponsored projects management specifically for pre-award functions that include, but may not be limited to proposal preparation, proposal compliance, budget development, proposal review and submission. This position works independently on a variety of grants/contracts that range from simple to highly complex. The primary goal of this position is to ensure timely, effective and efficient submissions of sponsored funding requests. This position is supervised by the Pre-award Grants and Contracts Supervisor of the Ophthalmology/Dermatology Pre-Award Team.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides guidance and learning support to the Faculty, Analysts and Administrative Staff within the Departments of Ophthalmology and Dermatology.
• Works independently on a variety of complex level grants/contracts, including those from NIH, NSF, DOD and various foundations. These grants, contracts and awards may involve highly detailed budgets, multiple projects, Cores and Sub-awards, Investigator-initiated, Consortium, Dept. of Defense grants, and higher complexity Foundation grants. Some of the NIH mechanisms that this position will be working with are, R01, U01, UG1, P30, T32, R03, R15, R21, R25, STTR, K08, K12, K23, KL2, K99/R00, F31, F32, S10.
• Prepare paper or electronic application. Review and understand the funding opportunity announcement and ensure proposal application adheres to instructions.
• Ensures that all of the proper information/documentation is uploaded into the designated application portal (ASSIST, Workspace, Fibi, etc.).
• Coordinate with CRC (ORA Pratt Street). Provide protocol, contract etc. Develop per patient budget, internal budget and PRA with CRC and PI. Track through IRB Approval and contract execution
• Obtain necessary documentation for JIT’s and partner with ORA to submit by required due date.
• If budget reductions are required, partner with post-award analyst to reduce budget and verify with PI that work can still be completed based on any budget/effort reductions
• Maintain current biosketches for all research faculty. Update, as needed.
• Review all pending proposals. Have updates made if the status should be updated from Pending to Not Funded.
• If applicable, ensure PI has submitted appropriate documentation for IRB and/or IACUC approvals.
• Prepare and review grant and contract proposals and provide guidance to the PI in the interpretation and implications of applicable grants terms and conditions.
• Work with the Office of Research Administration (ORA) and external funding agencies to process grant and contract applications.
• Follow-up with ORA as appropriate, for updates on current contract negotiations (if not updated within MyRap), PDs submitted, etc.
• MTA’s, NDA’s, Pre- Applications, Letters of Intent: Gather all required information needed and submit to ORA.
• Follow-up with ORA, as appropriate, for timeframe on workflow being forwarded to SPSS for set-up.
• Stay updated on new policies, procedures and systems. Disseminate updates and policy/procedure changes to faculty/staff/divisions as appropriate.
• Work directly with the application’s Principal Investigator, Co-Investigators and administrative staff to ensure effective, accurate and timely grant proposal development.
• Point of contact for department faculty and/or divisional staff toward the planning and development of budgets for submission with grant packages to various federal offices, private agencies/foundation and commercial agencies.
• Compare budget detail to budget justification for consistency and accuracy.
• Review budget justification for appropriateness and completeness of content.
• Verify applications are in compliance with sponsoring organization’s guidelines, as well as with relevant University policies and procedures.
• Coordinate submission of large-multi-center proposals, ensuring that they are in compliance with the sponsor’s requirements.
• Responsible for tracking grant/contract proposals and other documentation through the signature/approval processes.
• Assure that appropriate effort reporting, COI and human subject compliance training has been completed.
• Point of contact for sub-award/subcontract organizations to ensure that the information/documents provided for submissions are accurate and in compliance with the sponsor’s guidelines.
• Coordinate submission of all proposals ensuring that all applicable direct and indirect cost rates have been applied.
• Advise faculty and staff on changes in sponsored research polices.
• Facilitate and/or produce specialized sponsored projects reports utilizing institutional or departmental systems (i.e., Fibi, SAP, Dashboard, etc.) for assigned principal investigators and Ophthalmology/Dermatology Administration.
• Utilize Fibi and/or Dashboard to provide various reports, such as proposal success rates, amounts of proposals submitted by PI and in total, total direct and indirect costs submitted by fiscal year, etc.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Four years of related experience in sponsored research and/or financial positions, preferably in an academic or medical setting.
• 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.

Classified Title: Sr. Grants & Contracts Analyst 
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PD  
Starting Salary Range: $62,900 - $110,100 Annually (Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus 
Department name: ​​​​​​​SOM Oph Finance 
Personnel area: School of Medicine