The Grants Development Specialist, Senior provides pre-award services to help Nemours investigators develop and submit federal, state, foundation, private and other research and non research sponsored project proposals. The Grants Development Senior Specialist also acts as a liaison between the PI, Grants Administration Specialists, and Clinical Trials Business Office Manager. Incumbent is responsible for providing services in various aspects of the proposal preparation phase, including interpretation of the sponsoring agency's guidelines, budget development, gathering documentation to support sub awards and subcontracts, coordination of required approvals, and regulatory requirements, and is also responsible for the oversight and management of assigned PI research proposals in terms of reviewing project budgets, understanding submission guidelines, identifying areas of potential concern or conflict with terms and conditions, and with some funders, the actual submission of proposals. The Grants Development Senior Specialist is responsible for helping manage up to 80 proposals per year and serves as a senior subject matter expert within the SPA for problem resolution for PI's, Nemours associates, and external entities as needed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Coordinates proposal development assistance to PI's, establishes the electronic application option to be used for all proposals and required timeline for internal and external submission deadline dates.
• Meets with Principal Investigator regularly to provide one-on-one personalized service and to collect and build administrative components of proposal. Assists in developing proposal budget in line with budget justification and commensurate with sponsor and Nemours policies. Coordinates cost sharing approval documentation between PI and institutional leadership as required. Coordinates transfer of all required subrecipient proposal materials between prime and subrecipient participants.
• Serves as a primary source of expertise to ensure that proposals meet sponsor requirements; ensures proposal documents are compliant with Uniform Guidance and FAR terms and conditions and other required federal regulations; consults with appropriate managerial staff on any exceptions to Institutional policy, including program matching commitments, facilities, and administrative rates, etc.
• Generates a proposal file to include all documents associated with the preparation, development and submission of each new application and maintains updates as needed.
• Provides detailed documentation for each new proposal to include all proposal development assistance provided to PI's during the proposal development process.
• Assembles all final proposal documents, performs initial proposal review, and performs hand off to Grants Administration office for final review and processing of application submission.
• Assists Manager of Grants Development with preparation of internal research award budgets through InfoReady and other assignments as required.
• Assists Grants Administration with updates of PI other support documentation, updates of requests for subrecipient participant documents, and other assignments as required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred
• Minimum five years of grant pre-award experience required; 6+ preferred
• CRA, CPRA and/or CFRA preferred
• Experience in an academic or non-academic research healthcare organization is preferred
• Microsoft Suite, Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Huron Research Suite, InfoReady