at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 54470
Department: MED-Pulmonary
Salary/Grade: NEX/11
This position is an administrative (non-clinical) role that supports Principal Investigators on the full lifecycle of pre and post award grant administration. This is also a hybrid role that will have weekly onsite workdays.
Job Summary:
Completes clerical and administrative tasks in support of unit's sponsored programs and research mission. This may include coordinating pre-award &/or post-award processes; completing internal or external forms for any/all portions (including budget) of a proposal or award; collecting, distributing &/or archiving proposal and award related documents; using spreadsheets to calculate budgets and track data &/or data analysis.
Specific Responsibilities:
Complexity
- Typically assists with research projects such as:
- Single Principal Investigator (PI) basic proposals, grants &/or contracts
- Components of multi-PI or multi-unit proposals, grants &/or contracts
- NIH RO1-approximately $250K/yr. over 5 yrs.
- NIH R21-approximately $150K/yr. over 2 yrs.
- Foundation grants
- NSF grants
Pre-Award
- Completes pre-award administration of grant &/or contract activities.
- Prepares proposals.
- Obtains approvals.
- Develops straightforward budgets using spreadsheets.
- Updates bio sketches.
- Formats & uploads files to electronic platforms.
- Collects &/or distributes information both internally &/or externally to/from faculty, staff, students, etc.
- Tracks proposal due dates and follows up/coordinates proposal routing as needed.
Post-Award
- C
