Grants Manager

INTRODUCTION:
Biomedical Research Institute of NM enables biomedical research supporting veterans to occur on the New Mexico VA campus. This role administers all aspects of the grant functions in the administrative office and assists other personnel in the office as needed.

Salary is $65,000-75,000 annually depending on education and experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Coordinate, assemble and submit grant proposals.
• Assist in project budget development, justifications, biosketches, and facilities capability statements.
• Track federal grants through inception to project closeout.
• Record and submit all financial and technical accounting reports, no-cost extensions, and carry over requests for funded awards.
• Update, maintain and run monthly reporting information on eRA Commons. Create Commons affiliations and accounts.
• Research and notify Principal Investigator on new funding opportunities
• Track all incoming and outgoing contracts and forms.
• Maintain database of grants and expenses for RDIS and email announcements to investigators and/or BRINM employees.
• Communicate and handle questions with principal investigators, and sponsors
• Support accounting area with matching, coding and correspondence on all invoicing.
• Code, document and report on monthly expenses for accounting reconciliation.

REQUIREMENTS:
• Must be proficient with MS-Office, as well as Adobe for modifying PDFs.
• At least an Associate’s Degree and 3 years of experience in federal grant submissions, with preference for NIH grants and knowledge of regulations for government grants.
• At least 1 year experience using grants.gov, ASSIST, eRA Commons, R&D and HRRC