Careers

Position Description

• Ensuring proper financial management and administration of a research portfolio while directly managing their own portfolio.
• Advising on best practices for research administration, as well as on research compliance, how to handle issues related to a highly-complex portfolio of grants, and allowability of costs
• Supervising a team of up to 3 financial staff, including time approvals, annual performance reviews, performance management; delegating tasks and monitoring team workflow
• Mentoring staff on sponsored pre- and post-award management and on substantial non-sponsored fund management
• Ensuring sponsored data integrity in Harvard's GMAS database
• Developing and overseeing the grant proposal and submission process including: budgeting, collecting required documentation, and completing proposal forms through GMAS and/or other electronic systems
• Interpreting regulations and guidelines of program funding for standard grants; evaluating, implementing, and disseminating policies and procedures to others within the department; ensuring compliance
• Identifying and resolving any compliance or policy issues (for example, Provost review criteria, F&A recovery, cost sharing, etc.)
• Reviewing and approving expenditures across the team of sponsored and non-sponsored spending; approving salary allocation and effort distributions; approving accounts payable, invoices, reimbursements, and journal entries
• Coordinating with Associate Director of Finance in fiscal year closings
• Managing Departmental Reporting to various central offices, including Monthly Post Award Metrics Report, Quarterly Sub Recipient Monitoring Reports, Quarterly OSP Finance Reports; responding to central requests for data and reports
• Coordinates and acts as department contact of all audits under her team's research portfolio.
• Coordinating and signatory for non-sponsored agreements and sponsored research service agreements on behalf of the department.
• Assisting the Associate Director of Finance with the Annual Budget Process; assists team members in managing complex projects, including substantial sponsored and non-sponsored activities
• Performs other related duties as required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required
• Minimum of 5 years' relevant work experience
• Advanced knowledge of sponsored research regulations

Additional Qualifications and Skills

• Master's Degree
• CRA certification
• Prior supervisory experience
• Advanced working knowledge of research compliance issues, key federal grant regulations, and other related compliance issues
• Extensive pre- and post-award management experience, as well as 3+ years of project management experience
• Experience managing progressively more complex sponsored research awards and working with a variety of sponsors
• Advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge of human subject use, animal use and other research compliance areas

• Awareness of and aptitude to appropriately and effectively understand, respect, and adapt to cultural and identity-based difference within group environments
• Knowledge of and commitment to concepts and issues tied to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Skills related to creating and supporting an environment that allows for inclusion, effective intercultural engagement, and personal humility and authenticity
• Experience fostering and reinforcing an environment that values unique experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and goals

Working Conditions

• Work is performed in an office setting

Additional Information

• The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health does not provide visa sponsorship, now or in the future, for staff positions.
• Harvard University requires pre-employment reference checks and background screenings.
• This position has a 90 day orientation and review period.

Salary Grade: 057

Union: 00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary

About Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

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