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The University of Colorado, Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic) is hiring a Research Services Professional. This position is responsible for the management and oversight of the grant and contract operations of the pre- & post-award program for Crnic.
The Research Services Professional will provide technical grants, contracts, and financial expertise to Principal Investigators (PIs) and produce financial reports for the Director of Finance and Administration (DFA) and the Research Services Program Director at Crnic. This position will work closely with the DFA, PIs, and key research staff within the Institute to ensure the accuracy of grants and contracts. This position will interact and collaborate closely with the Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC) on the billing and financial elements of these items.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develops proposal budgets and routing documents in partnership with PIs and Crnic Research Managers.
  • Edits proposals according to OGC routing review, gathers final documents from PIs, and prepares proposals for final submission to sponsor.
  • Ensures compliance to all CU and sponsor funding guidelines.
  • Assists with overseeing progress report deadlines. Reminds faculty of progress report deadlines, instructions, and processes. Prepares materials for non-competing renewals and ensures timely submission.
  • Works with the DFA to support research budgeting, purchasing, reimbursements, invoicing, reconciling for accuracy, compliance, and timeliness adhering to department, university, and external stakeholders’ policies and processes. This can include resolving discrepancies, PETs, journal entries, transferring finance residual balances, updating clinical research finance databases and documents.
  • Manages Crnic-sponsored funding application portal, assists applicants, and responds to relevant inquiries regarding RFAs.
Minimum Qualifications

Intermediate Level:
  • A bachelor’s degree in public health, public administration, social/behavioral sciences, physical sciences, nursing, healthcare, finance, accounting, business administration, business, or a directly related field from an accredited institution.A combination of education and related technical/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.
  • One (1) year of professional level experience with sponsored project administration.  
Senior Level:
  • A bachelor’s degree in public health, public administration, social/behavioral sciences, physical sciences, nursing, healthcare, finance, accounting, business administration, business, or a directly related field from an accredited institution.A combination of education and related technical/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.
  • Two (2) years of professional level experience with sponsored project administration.  
Principal Level:
  • A bachelor’s degree in public health, public administration, social/behavioral sciences, physical sciences, nursing, healthcare, finance, accounting, business administration, business, or a directly related field from an accredited institution.A combination of education and related technical/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.
  • Three (3) years of professional level experience with sponsored project administration.  
Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.