Grant Development Specialist 1
Job ID: 283809
Location: Augusta University
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary:
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About Us
Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 10,500 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences. Augusta is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today. Our mission and values https://www.augusta.edu/about/mission.php make Augusta University an institution like no other.
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Location
Augusta University
Our Health Sciences Campus: 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912
Our Summerville Campus: 2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30904
College/Department Information
The Georgia Cancer Center is on a mission for Georgia providing industry-leading cancer research and care that benefits patients locally and globally. Our ultimate goal is to eradicate cancer and we are proudly making progress every day. When we say patient care is a priority, we mean it. We assemble custom teams of field experts to address each individual's unique needs.
The Georgia Cancer Center M. Bert Storey Research Building provides quality research space to promote multidisciplinary collaborations and translational research, which is essential to creating an environment that promotes innovation. Our research approach supports important National Cancer Institute goals including ensuring every cancer patient has access to the newest and most innovative clinical trials in the nation, clinicians and researchers work together to initiate new research protocols based on the clinician's interaction with the patient, and each cancer patient receives personalized treatment through the interaction of the multidisciplinary team of clinicians and allied health professionals.
Job Summary
Provides support for the Center for Immunology faculty and research trainees to include development, preparation, and submission of grant and contract proposals. Ensures all applications meet agency and university guidelines and published time tables and deadlines. Ensures proposals are entered and routed in a timely manner for further review. Post-award activities include detailed reconciliation of assigned project budgets, preparing budget reports, preparing adjustments and corrections in assigned project budgets for further review and approval in order to meet project goal and federal requirements.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Tracking award:
Assists with metrics and tracking of grants and awards. Provides assistance to faculty in interpreting award terms and conditions. Serves as a resource to administration, trainees and faculty in preparation, development, review, and submission of grant and contract proposal and applications. Develops evaluation criteria. Serves as primary contact with pre-award on grant and contract related matters. Advises faculty on strategic budget development. Prepares and develops progress reports, competing renewals, revisions, contracts and grant close-out reports, as well as just-in-time information. Works in federal and private electronic research administration systems such as ASSIST, Workspace, and Proposal Central to complete pre- and post-award activities. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and agency regulations regarding all aspects of pre- and post-award administration.
Budgets:
Assist managing budgets for grants, research incentive, and startup accounts. Approves grant expenditures according to direct charging policy; approves startup expenditures according to state/AU policy; approves research incentive expenditures according to MCGRI policies; reconciles accounts on a monthly basis and takes appropriate action to correct any errors. Prepares and maintains documentation related to cost transfers, requests for expenditures, budget revisions, and fund statements. Ensures payments for invoices, check requests, as well as deposits, are applied correctly in the financial system and reflected in financial reports.
Effort:
Assists assigning personnel to accounts in accordance with budgets and award terms and works closely with the Department Administrator to ensure personnel actions are submitted in a timely manner; reviews effort monthly via the pre-payroll report and indicates corrections needed. Works in the Effort Reporting System to ensure cost sharing is applied to the grant/s and that faculty and staff certify their effort.
Financial Reports:
Interprets data for the purpose of determining past financial performance to develop and prepare financial reports for financial analysis, forecasting, and trending. Devises financial reporting tools and reports. Reviews and analyzes data to solve sponsored research problems; escalates serious problems so that appropriate action can be taken. Serves as primary contact with post award on grant related matters and with the Research Institute for incentive related matters.
P-card:
Processes P-card allocations and approvals monthly in the Works Payment system; assists with procurement of supplies and equipment for the research laboratories.
Other:
Performs other related duties and special projects as assigned.
Required Qualifications
Educational Requirements
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in business or related field with two years of experience in business, finance, accounting or other related field.
Required Experience
Two years experience preparing and reviewing funding proposals.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

ABILITIES
Experience in developing bioinformatics pipelines. Experience with version control management repositories (such as GIT). Experience with Python, Linux command-line, and HPC environment. Demonstrated ability to self-manage and manage interdisciplinary relationships effectively. Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary research team. Ability to maintain confidentiality.
KNOWLEDGE
Familiarity with standard statistical methods. Proficiency in debugging and troubleshooting bioinformatics data analysis pipelines. Proficiency In R packages related to bioinformatics, statistical analyses, and visualization.
SKILLS
Strong problem-solving skills. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Shift/Salary/Benefits
Shift: Days/M-F (work outside of normal business hours will likely be required of an employee in an exempt level position)
Pay Band: B9
Salary Minimum: $48,800 - $58,240/annually
Salary to be commensurate with qualifications of the selected candidate within the established range (generally minimum-midpoint) of the position
Recruitment Period: 4/2/25 - Until Filled
Augusta University offers a variety of benefits to full-time benefits-eligible employees and some of our half-time (or more) employees.
Benefits that may be elected could include health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, Teachers Retirement System (or Optional Retirement Plan), as well as earned vacation time, sick leave, and 13 paid holidays.
Also, our full-time employees who have been employed with us successfully for more than 6 months can be considered for the Tuition Assistance Program. Consider applying with us today!
Conditions of Employment
All selected candidates are required to successfully pass a Background Check review prior to starting with Augusta University.
If applicable for the specific position based on the duties: the candidate will also need to have a credit check completed for Positions of Trust and or approved departmental Purchase Card usage.
Motor vehicle reports are required for positions that are required to drive an Augusta University vehicle.
For Faculty Hires: Final candidates will be required to provide proof of completed academic degree(s) as well as post-secondary coursework in the form of original transcript(s). Those candidates trained by a foreign institution will also be required to provide an educational/credential evaluation.
All employees are responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of sensitive [patient, student, employee, financial, business, etc.] information by exercising sound judgment and adhering to cybersecurity and privacy policies during their employment and beyond.
Credit Check
This position will require the acquisition of a P-Card and/or handle cash, credit or other sensitive information and will require a satisfactory Consumer Credit check as a condition of employment.
Other Information
This position is also responsible for promoting a customer-friendly environment and providing superior service to our patients, students, faculty, and employees. "Augusta University is a patient-and family-centered care institution, where employees partner every day with patients and families for success."
Augusta University is a tobacco-free environment, and the use of any tobacco products on any part of the campus, both inside and outside, is strictly prohibited.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Augusta University is proud to be an equal opportunity employer welcoming applicants from underrepresented groups, including individuals with disabilities and veterans.
How To Apply
Consider applying with us today!
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