• Plays a vital role in the sponsor project life cycle, ensuring that research proposals adhere to sponsor guidelines and are successfully submitted. • Supports faculty, center directors, and staff throughout the pre-award stage of sponsored projects, including proposal preparation and submission, just-in-time requests, and compliance. • Manages a portfolio of faculty post-award and payroll sourcing activities with minimal supervision/oversight for a research-intensive department. • Provides oversight and day-to-day management of research administration. • Performs pre-award job duties in response to specific proposal guidelines and terms and conditions for complex proposals. • Works with faculty in proposal preparation and submission. • Manages budgeting, analysis, justifications for proposals; gathers information for protocols and non-technical proposal components as needed. • Acts as liaison between the Chair, Faculty, and Department Administrators (DAs). • Stays current on federal and university developments regarding research administration and complex regulations. • May coordinate the submission, work with PI to prepare budget, obtain pricing quotes from other departments. • Compiles and ensures accurate regulatory compliance of necessary data collected from various sources. • Works with Principal Investigator to compile and submit the entire grant according to established agency/university guidelines. • Prepares and reviews all agency forms for submission. • Enters grant budgeting documents on-line, as needed. • Obtains PI and institutional signatures for proposal submissions. • Initiates subaward setup through SUBS system. • Uploads pre-award documents and handoffs to Post-award to enter fund number. • Coordinates with the Post-award unit and OSRS to ensure timely implementation of contracts and subcontracts. • Serves as responsible for the oversight and management of research administration. • Implements and maintains procedures to ensure efficient workflow; responsible for the proper training of staff. • Manages reviews of more complex notice of award (NOA), including tracking and maintaining online database of grants submitted, awarded, rejected.