Department: Temp Center
Salary/Grade: TMP/01

Position: Temporary Full-time Grants Administrator
Hours: This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week/ M-F)
Pay: $20.00 per hour
Campus: Evanston
Approximate start date: ASAP
Approximate end date: 1/31/2024

Northwestern University is seeking a temporary Full-time Grants Administrator for the Evanston campus.

Temporary Job Description:

The Grants Administrator position will provide oversight of post award grants management, accounting, compliance and ad hoc projects. This position is in the Kellogg School of Management Financial Administration reports directly to the Director Financial Administration. All functions listed below are performed with a high degree of independence and must be performed with professionalism and integrity.

Analysis, Statements & Reporting:

�        Records journal entries and creates reports.

�        Performs financial account reconciliations, statement analysis, and transaction research

Grants/Awards:

�        Verifies accurate set up of sponsored project accounts.

�        Manages effort commitments of key project personnel.

�        Process cost share transactions.

�        Reviews PI funding status on a monthly basis.

�        Reconciles standard budget & payroll information ensuring that appropriate sponsored accounts are charged.

�        Facilities account close out activities, coordinating with ASRSP.

�        Ensures compliance with all appropriate NU policies & practices; local, state, federal, agency & sponsor rules, regulations& requirements regarding grant &/or contract administration

�        Works with ASRSP regarding financial grants management issues.

�        Alerts supervisor to potential compliance issues.

�        Provides support for internal &/or granting agency audit requests.

�        Communicates with PI, other unit and project personnel, OSR, ASRSP accordingly

Administration:

�        Processes & presents data & information through the application of database, graphic & spreadsheet software.

�        Obtains data by downloading from enterprise systems; develops and runs queries.

Miscellaneous

�        Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills, knowledge, and abilities

�        Proficient in the use of spreadsheet, database and word processing software.

�        Familiarity with financial reporting.

�        Ability to calculate arithmetic computations.

�        Detail-oriented.

�        Multi-tasking.

�        Time management.

�        Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees.

�        Ability to work independently, with minimal direct supervision.

�        Ability to communicate effectively with non-financial customers

Software Required:

MS Office suite 2013 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Northwestern University seeks to employ a varied and diverse range of dynamic people who understand the importance of our mission and vision. When you consider a temporary opportunity at Northwestern University, you know that you are joining an institution with a deep history of academic, professional and personal development.

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The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations. We acknowledge and honor the original people of the land upon which Northwestern University stands, and the Native people who remain on this land today.

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