Compliance Specialist - Subcontracts Management

at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Opening Id: 50693

Department: Office Sponsored Research
Salary/Grade: EXS/6

Founded in 1851, Northwestern University is committed to excellent teaching, innovative research, and the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community. Northwestern uniquely combines the assets of several different types of academic institution – the power of a major research university, the creative energy of arts and music conservatories, the intimacy of a liberal arts college, the rich diversity of an international institution, exceptional professional schools, and the excitement of a Big Ten athletic program. The University combines innovative teaching and pioneering research in a highly collaborative environment that transcends academic boundaries.

Northwestern is committed to creating a vibrant ecosystem for discovery, into which it hires exceptional faculty and staff and attracts great students. This ecosystem, inhabited with this pioneering spirit, tradition of innovation, and culture of bold, collaborative discovery, has solidified its place among the nation’s leading private research universities: its annual sponsored research awards surpassed $886 million in FY 2020.

The Compliance Specialist will be a confident administrative professional who has strong service orientation and provides operational, compliance and administrative support to the subcontracting function for compliance with university policy and federal regulations on subrecipient risk assessment and related activity.

The Compliance Specialist - Subcontracts Management will support the OR mission and values of understanding empathy, modeling accountability, ensuring fairness, embracing community, and valuing creativity.   

Job Summary:

As a professional staff member of Northwestern University Sponsored Research (SR), the Compliance Specialist is an integral part of the institutional infrastructure that supports innovative research for ten schools, colleges, Centers and Offices across three campuses (Chicago and Evanston, Illinois and Doha, Qatar) at a distinguished AAU institution.

Reporting to the Director Sponsored Research Subcontracts Management, the Compliance Specialist will provide operational, compliance and administrative support for the subcontracting function and process in SR to support compliance with university policy and federal regulations as they relate to 2 CFR Part 200.332(b), particularly the conduct of subrecipient risk assessment, critical analysis of assessment data elements, and rationale-based recommendations for risk level and subrecipient monitoring.

As part of Northwestern University’s commitment to creating an inclusive and diver