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Responsible for the daily financial monitoring of assigned sponsored research grants and contracts.  This position will work closely with faculty, department administrators, the Wellesley Centers for Women, the Provost’s Office, the Office of Sponsored Research, Finance and representatives from various awarding and subrecipient agencies

Position Responsibility

• Assume primary responsibility for supporting assigned PIs regarding financial management of  their grants/projects from award through close-out

• Prepare, review with PI and Director of Post Award Services, and submit all financial reports for assigned grants/PIs

• Support researchers in the fiscal management of their grants/projects through financial analyses and forecasting. Invoice and apply payments to subcontracts and work with Director of Post Award Services and other positions/departments to facilitate problem solving

• Through regular review of internal policy and procedure and external terms, conditions and regulations, indentify  updates to  policy and practice necessary and work with Director of Post Award Services and other College departments/positions to implement

• Work with Principal Investigators and others to ensure timely requests for a no cost extensions and budget revisions

• Set-up and maintain grant awards in the Workday System.

• Work with Provost Office to ensure proper salary allocation of faculty to external awards, creating and updating Personnel Data Entry Forms to transmit this information in a clear and concise format.  Maintain the grant-funded casual wage and student worker payroll database on Excel, respond to payroll inquiries regarding grant funding, and review effort reports to meet federal requirements.

• Identify equipment purchased on federal awards for inclusion in institutional internal tracking system managed by central college staff

• Assist in implementation of training programs developed by Office of Sponsored Research, Wellesley Centers for Woman, Controller's Office and Director of Post Award Services

• Assists the Director of Post Award Services in handling all aspects of post award accounting operations

• Other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• 3+ years of related experience in post award services, preferably in a higher education setting

• CRA or CFRA preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Strong ability to prioritize and organize work effectively, adhere to tight and established deadlines

• Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to perform work with limited direction and guidance

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

All employees hired are strongly encouraged to be up to date with all vaccination and boosters against COVID?19.

Wellesley College offers a wide variety of benefits programs and resources to its employees, including:

• Generous paid time off

• Following one year of employment, Wellesley College will contribute up to 10.5% towards your 403B plan for eligible employees

• Resources to navigate student loan forgiveness

• Free use of the athletic/fitness facilities, including onsite fitness classes

• Free on-site parking in an enclosed parking garage

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About Wellesley College

Wellesley is known for the excellence of its education, the beauty of its setting, its gifted faculty, and the uniqueness of its campus culture. But most of all, Wellesley is known for the thousands of accomplished, thoughtful women it has sent out into the world for over 100 years women who are committed to making a difference. Every year, some 2,400 of the world's top undergraduate women are challenged to exceed their own highest personal and intellectual expectations. The mastery Wellesley graduates demonstrate across the professional and vocational spectrum, and the influence they wield, whether in their own communities or on the world stage is testament to a singularly empowering undergraduate experience. Wellesley's lively academic community places a high value on rigorous, probing inquiry, and creative, cross-discipline thinking. Its collaborative approach to scholarship encourages students to question, debate, and refine their points of view, not only with each other, but with our world-class faculty, often by working directly with them on groundbreaking projects. A Wellesley education fosters the highest standard of readiness for the real world in its graduates, in terms... of ability to think, act, and contribute meaningfully and effectively in their chosen areas of interest.

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