Heather (Thomas) Meyer Email & Phone Number

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Stockach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Germany

• Review country and regional-level proposal budgets, grant agreements and contracts for financial and compliance concerns.
• Ensure regional grant administration is on track and support country-level grant administration
• Coordinate subgrant compliance and reporting
• Improve grant management processes and procedures across WCS Asia
• Ensure grant management lessons learned and best practices are shared across all WCS Asia regions
• Provide guidance, capacity-building support, and training to new regional grant managers and other staff throughout WCS Asia

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Coordinate the preparation, review and submission of compliant grant and contract proposals.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and execute compliant extramural awards and other related agreements such as Data Use Agreements.
• Monitor day-to-day award activity to ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations.
• Draft and implement policies and procedures.
• Provide supervision to OSP Grants & Contracts Specialists.

• Conducted communication regarding policies and procedures to internal program staff and external stakeholders.
• Served as subject matter expert on grantee practices related to proposal development and grant management.
• Coordinated inter-agency meetings for the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC) working group, which included representatives from eight Federal agencies.
• Assisted in the formal clearance process of the Research Terms and Conditions (RTCs) and the Final Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) format, including OSTP and OMB review.
• Analyzed new and proposed statutes and regulations to determine impact on current policies, e.g., developed FAQs to address NSF’s implementation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), clarifying the impact of this.

Boulder, Colorado

• Senior Grant Officer
• Processed and managed incoming grants, cooperative agreements, subrecipient agreements, and modifications to existing awards for all externally sponsored research grants for 7 departments and 2 research centers.
• Researched and analyzed Federal statutes, regulations, and Executive Orders to ensure institutional policies and procedures were compliant; provided recommendations to management on policy revisions, as needed.
• Ensured awards were managed in compliance with award-specific terms and conditions.
• Trained new Grant Officers and existing team members on sponsor and institutional policies and electronic systems.Manager, Proposal Development/ Sr Proposal Analyst
• Managed a team of proposal analysts.

• Coordinated the preparation and review of proposal budgets and application materials, ensuring compliance with Federal, state, and institutional policies.
• Assisted in the transition from a largely paper-based system to new electronic research administration and submission systems, Cayuse SP and Cayuse 424.
• Designed training programs, handouts, and templates for faculty and administrative staff on topics, including budget preparation, sponsor policy (e.g., updates to the NSF PAPPG), Cayuse SP and 424, and Proposal.
• Received the Texas Tech University Distinguished Staff Award (2013).

Master Of Science - Ms, Finance, With Distinction

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Business, Applied Linguistics, And Technical Writing, Gpa: 4.0

Certificate in Management, Certificate in Teaching English in International Contexts

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Major: History; Minor: German, Summa Cum Laude, Gpa: 3.95

Activities and Societies: Summa Cum Laude, Honors College Banner Bearer, Arts & Sciences Student Ambassador

As Levels, Biology, Psychology And Sociology