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Research Grant Specialist I - Smidt Heart Institute - Dr. Susan Cheng
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Research Grant Specialist I - Smidt Heart Institute - Dr. Susan Cheng

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Posted:
February 19, 2021
Location:
Los Angeles, California
Salary:
Open
Type:
Full-time
As a Research Grant Specialist I (RGSI) Pre & Post Award, you will work with the PI and senior level research administrators to complete and prepare for submittal of federal, non-federal and foundation grants. Serves as the liaison between departments or research groups, Sponsored Research & Funds Administration, Accounting and Finance departments. This role performs all pre- and post-award administrative functions, including but not limited to: preparing and routing internal documents for signature and processing, reviewing technical sections of proposals to ensure requirements are met, preparing and/or reviewing budgets, maintaining clear understanding of grant budgets and expenditure restrictions.
You must ensure compliance with all federal, state and local agencies including the National Institute of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DOD), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Institutional Review Board. This position will report to senior level research administrators for day to day supervision of work.
Essential job duties and responsibilities:
  • Works with principal investigator to complete and prepare for submission of federal, non-federal and foundation grants.
  • Works as the liaison between departments or research groups and Sponsored Research & Funds Administration, Accounting, and Finance departments.
  • Prepares and routes internal documents for signature and processing.
  • Performs all pre- and post-award administrative functions.
  • Assists with budget development and entry of financial information into federal systems.
  • Ensures technical proposal is compliant with all federal, state and local agencies solicitation requirements.
  • Monitors and tracks awards submitted and received.
  • Monitors federal and non-federal grant accounts, tracks expenses, project reconciliation and research-related financial reporting.
  • Performs necessary funding corrections via direct cost transfer requests (DCTRs).
  • Assists in the development of financial projections for project account management.
  • Assists in the development and submission of progress reports.
  • Assists in the identification of opportunities for research funding.
  • May enter notice of grant awards and contract information into databases as needed.
  • May assist in the preparation and submission of documentation required for research compliance.
  • Participates in required training and education programs.
  • Assists the senior level grant administrators and leadership on other activities as assigned.
  • Critically evaluates research protocols to assess resource needs; assessment includes all research procedures, clinical research staff time, investigator time, and costs from ancillary departments.
  • Determines whether research procedures in the protocol are standard-of-care or a research-related costs in order to correctly classify expenses.
  • Negotiates trial budgets with industry sponsors.
  • Works closely with investigators to obtain accurate budget details.
  • Works with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) office of Sponsored Research to develop final budgets for clinical trials and research projects.
  • May assist with invoicing sponsors, patient research billing, reimbursement to ancillary departments, and payment tracking.
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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major t...eaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
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