Grants Manager

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Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation’s brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist’s outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we’re making new strides every day.

We’ve been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That’s why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it’s different.

Job Overview

The Sponsored Programs Manager is responsible for growing and maintaining an infrastructure to support federal and state funded research, clinical, and public service programs at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO). Primary responsibilities include the pre-award budgeting, financial and administrative management of direct federal and state awards to CHCO and pre-award budgeting of campus grant submission for the CHCO component. This position reports to the Director of Research Business Services within the Child Health Research Enterprise (CHRE). The Manager, Sponsored Programs partners with CHRE leadership responsible for industry-sponsored clinical trials and Finance leadership responsible for central post-award services with the goal of providing seamless support to CHCO Principal Investigators and department staff.

Qualifications

EDUCATION – Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, or related field.

EXPERIENCE – Three years of sponsored award experience, including knowledge of federal regulations governing federal grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.

CERTIFICATION(S) – Certified Research Administrator (CRA) certification preferred.

Salary Range:

$94,871.97 to $142,307.96

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

1. Serves as institutional official, i.e., Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) for federal and non-federal proposals, awards, sub-awards, and shared agreements with the University of Colorado – Denver (UCD)

2. Creates infrastructure to support current and future sponsored award funding including hospital departments receiving congressional designated funding

3. Creates and continually maintains internal control documentation to support compliance with federal and non-federal policies including but not limited to the federal guidelines under 2 CFR 200: Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards

4. Writes and maintains policies and internal operating procedures for proposal submissions, sub-awards, and shared agreements with University of Colorado-Denver (UCD), and award management.

5. Serves as liaison to UCD pre-award office and department administrators for UCD faculty.

6. Shares knowledge and expertise in interpreting sponsor and institutional policies, procedures, and guidelines.

7. Develops training, education, assessments, auditing and monitoring in collaboration within CHCO and its affiliates.

8. Partners with the Finance, Post-Award Accounting to ensure efficient processes and handoffs exist between teams and ensures Principal Investigators and departments/divisions receive consistent support and communications.

9. Manages a discrete workload of award portfolios based on award complexity and/or staffing needs including new Principal Investigators.

10. Assigns and reviews work, provides work instruction (OTJ or formal training) and develops team members. Evaluates performance of team members, providing continuous feedback. Manages discipline and performance issues; hires and fires team members. Identifies resource needs and develops recommendations for meeting needs.

11. Manages sponsored program administrators responsible for assisting Principal Investigator/Project Directors with the administrative components and budgets for proposals, sub-awards, and UCD agreements; reviewing expenditures and preparing budget to actuals reporting for sponsored awards; completing incoming sub-award risk assessments, subrecipient monitoring, and federal sub-award reporting; accepting and routing sponsored awards; and tracking award deliverables.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.