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Director, Post Award

Dayton, United States

Leads all aspects of WSU’s sponsored programs financial oversight operation; provides the appropriate internal controls that produce a sound financial environment for all grants and contracts awarded to the University; oversees the University’s effort reporting responsibilities; supervising post-award staff, providing training, coaching and career development.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5-7 years of increasingly responsible experience, including serving in a supervisory role in an office of research administration, or its equivalent, in an institution of higher education, non-profit, or hospital setting.
Experience with Banner or other accounting software system and ability to produce and analyze reports from that system.
Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision making, organizational leadership and interpersonal skills and outstanding oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in accounting, finance or a related field. Minimum of seven years of increasingly responsible experience, including serving in a supervisory role, in an office of research administration in an institution of higher education.
Certified Research Administrator (CRA) designation.

Essential Functions and percent of time:

Grant Management (30%)

Reviews and approves all expenditures on grant and contract accounts, including Personnel Action Forms (PAF) and e-PAFs, Chrome River transactions for supply and travel expenses, purchase requisitions submitted in the Wright Buy system, all journal vouchers for fund transfers, labor redistributions, and invoices from subcontractors.
Receives, distributes, and approves contracts for externally supported Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs). The review process includes ensuring that funds are available, expenditures fall within the start and end dates of the relevant project, funds have been budgeted appropriately, and acceptable documentation has been provided by the initiator.
Manages month-end closing with the Controller’s Office.

Supervision of Staff (20%)

Supervises the Post-Award staff members and oversees the post-award administration for all externally funded grants and contracts from award set-up to close-out. Steps include review and approval of subcontractor agreements and invoices, overall cash management, submission of fiscal reports and documentation of cost-share, and requests for no-cost extensions and budget revisions.

University Reporting (20%)

Oversees the University-wide effort reporting process.

Financial Reporting (10%)

Prepares financial reports from Banner for internal use by administration, fiscal services managers and Post-Award staff.

Audit Responsibilities (10%)

Responds to the Controller’s Office requests for documentation required for the University’s external annual audit of federal expenditures.
Responsible for specific sponsor audit requests pertaining to externally funded projects

Other Related Duties (10%)

Other related duties include providing training for University personnel on matters related to grant and contract expenditures and effort reporting, serving on University committees, responding to requests for ad hoc reports for use by University administration, collaborating with Pre-Award staff to coordinate the transition of awards for set-up.

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