GRANT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST SENIOR-HSOM

To serve as a 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 maintain an advisor-and-scientist relationship with investigators. To manage 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 content, populating the grant s submission portal (e.g., ASSIST, myUABresearch), and completing the grant s initial, revised, and final submission to the UAB Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). To identify and review current funding opportunity announcements and their applicability to investigators and their related scientific research programs. To identify sponsor deadlines and draft detailed project management plans tailored to specific Principal Investigators (PIs)Is 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 Dean s Office has the appropriate availability of resources for pre-and post-award activities and services. To provide faculty level training, presentations, and to identify areas of both institutional, federal, and other extramural support for investigative teams. To actively cultivate relationships with HSOM faculty and staff and encourage collaborations with UAB faculty, UAB s Office of Sponsored Programs, external institutions, foundations and other collaborators. To help refine strategic development objectives and activities of the office. In partnership with the Manager, to develop and refine reporting and data visualization tools, and populate tracking mechanisms for award activities in the SOM.

(Annual Salary: $57,940 - $94,150)