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Provide support of pre-award and post-award process which includes the planning and development of budgets for submission with grant packages to various federal agencies, private agencies, foundations and commercial contract proposals; providing instruction on protocol, regulations and guidelines pertinent to the agency or university; preparing timely proposal budgets for Principle Investigator Review.Provide assistance to the Grants Manager and/or Senior Sponsored Programs Coordinator on special projects or tasks; e.g. account clean up, account inactivation, etc.Revise and advise on approved budget changes to awarded grants/contracts.Maintain budget monitoring systems for sponsored project awards.Review statements, analyze variances and take appropriate actions.Develop financial reports for forecasting, trending and results analysis for CHS.Provide on-going guidance, facilitation and expertise to faculty in their grant pursuit efforts by providing analysis of all grant and contract applications.This duty requires a comprehensive review of, corrections to, and/or enhancement of the grant/contract application with a focus on compliance with University and agency regulations.Coordinate the transfer of incoming faculty member's grants/contracts from previous universities.Provide monthly reports to principal investigators on the financial status of their grants and contracts.Oversee timely closeout of grants and contracts.Provide review of all budget appropriation documents.Identify budget issues, provide alternative solutions, and resolve problems.Communicate over-expenditure to faculty and administrative staff and resolves funding shortfalls.Identify and implement new policies and procedures to improve CHS budget process.Oversee grant submission and effort reporting. Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

• Coordinating with a variety of internal and external research administration stakeholders to improve processes and drive efficiency.• Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and communicating synthesized results to senior internal team members to inform client deliverables.• Connecting with internal team members throughout the project engagement, including presenting key takeaways, communicating project updates, and organizing overall project logistics.• Monitoring institutional research compliance to ensure adherence to federal and/or state regulations.• Communicating with research staff, research departments, and research sponsors to help progress projects from commencement to completion.

- Manage the sub award application review process for the HA department from beginning to end.- Provide guidance and assistance to sub grantees in the interpretation of funding regulations and requirements. - Manage specialized database (GIFTS) and systems for recording and tracking grant proposals, awards, and related statistical information; creates and distributes standard and special reports, studies, summaries, and analyses as required. - Monitor and manage the administration of post-award grants to ensure that budgeting and administrative policies, procedures, and agency requirements are being followed; manage administrative problems and/or budget changes occurring during the awarded granting period. - Establish and maintain all sub award files. - Work with Regional Managers to coordinate inquiries and communications with programs.- Assist Healthy Athletes staff with sub award reporting and solving issues.

- Responsible for the oversight of all financial management functions, budgetary, operational and post award grant processes within the BGRO assigned Basic Science Departments and (Graduate Education), including operating funds (GX), discretionary funds (GD), philanthropic funds (RT) and all extramural funds (RX).- Serve as the administrative liaison with Federal, State and Corporate granting agencies.- Ensures expenditures are within budget limitations.- Ensures funds are expended according to award specifications.- Projects future salary and purchasing expenditures.- Monthly reconciliations of all extramural awards.- Ensures financial status reports are up-to-date and accurate for Director's signatures.- Ensures invoices for subcontracts are within the original budgeted award amounts and scope of work.- Provides the Director, operations managers, department chairs and faculty with current operating, discretionary and extramural information of fiscal status of all cost centers.

•Review all credit card transactions to ensure sufficient documentation and business explanation has been submitted.•Monitors activity in support of the Internal Audit and the Office of Procurement, and identifies potential elements of fraud or policy infractions.•Reviews all transactions to ensure compliance with University policies and federal regulations.•Following review of charges, will follow up directly with cardholders to finalize any questionable expenses, and will then prepare the necessary accounting entry to move the expenses to the appropriate grant and/or institutional cost center. •Oversee 78 credit card accounts.•Use PaymentNet, TouchNet, and GMS accounting software’s. •Serves as a liaison between all Georgetown University Medical Center sectors faculty and staff, the University and Georgetown University Medical Center credit card holders.

Assisted the Account Specialist in the Special Billing Department with researching and reviewing customers’ accounts to record billing adjustments and corrections. Handled research requests by researching data and preparing spreadsheets and tables. Supported coworkers by preparing documents to meet their Performance Management Program goals. Created a quick reference handbook of the adjustment criteria requirements of all billing codes used for auditing and training new employees, and prepared flowcharts that identify the billing and credit adjustment process. Responsible for controlling the switchboard for the WSSC operator as needed. Answered a high volume of sensitive calls from customers with grievances about service terminations, broken water and sewer mains, and high bills. Handled calls accordingly and transferred calls to colleagues as necessary. Performed technical and routine work using personal computer, Customer Service Information System (CSIS), Maintenance Management Information System (MMIS), and Microsoft Office.

Worked as a Summer Intern in the Office of Human Resources Management. Worked with confidential documents daily. Assisted in all areas in the Human Resources Office. Processed retirement paperwork, prepared packages for retirement seminars, delivered packages, worked with vouchers, filed paper work, and prepared spreadsheets for tracking on a daily basis. Supported the Human Resources staff on various assignments as needed.

Worked as a Winter Intern in the Office of Human Resources Management. Worked with confidential documents daily. Assisted in all areas in the Human Resources Office. Processed retirement paperwork, prepared packages for retirement seminars, delivered packages, worked with vouchers, filed paper work, and prepared spreadsheets for tracking on a daily basis. Supported the Human Resources staff on various assignments as needed.

Worked as a Summer Intern in the Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Broadcast Services, Acquired Programming Division under the Office of Global Video Outreach (GVO). Assisted with researching and recommending new documentaries for potential acquisition by the Department, as well as fulfilling film requests from embassies around the world. Wrote Scopes of Work for the DVD authoring and duplication of multiple videos, as well as wrote a Request for Proposal for the complex DVD authoring and replication of a 15-part television series. Performed accounting of inventory and reconciled all outstanding orders in the electronic database. Prepared spreadsheets that enabled GVO to quickly access current supply and demand, and the costs associated with meeting website posting needs. Worked with producers and video editors in the Office of Broadcast Services to produce and prepare content for posting on the www.state.gov website.

Worked as a Summer Intern in the Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Broadcast Services, Acquired Programming Division. Assisted television producers and technicians as they prepared content for distribution of the American Embassy Television Network; responded to requests from embassies and consulates throughout the world for educational and television broadcast programming. Reviewed documentary films on diverse subject matters for message content and provided feedback; performed inventory of the office’s stock of documentary films and updated a large electronic database with critical information about the office’s entire collection of video programming; analyzed data on three years of embassy and consulate use of videos and generated reports on findings.