Grants and Contracts Manager

Grants and Contracts Manager

The Program for Leadership and Character is seeking a responsible, detail-oriented, and trustworthy Grants and Contracts Manager to provide grant administration and financial services support for the Educating Character Initiative. The Educating Character Initiative, funded by a grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., is a project that aims to build capacity for character education at U.S. colleges and universities. The Grants and Contracts Manager will serve as the lead administrator of the Educating Character Initiative's grant efforts, attending to matters of fulfillment and reporting of ECI contracts with its funders as well as overseeing ECI's role as a funder of a major national grants program.

The Grants and Contracts Manager will execute contracts for over 100 open grants to colleges and universities, offer both pre- and post-award support to institutions receiving grants and subcontracts, and be knowledgeable and responsive to ECI program staff regarding grant proposal preparation, award selection, budgets, and administration. The Grants and Contracts Manager will monitor research program budgets, program reports, business affairs, policies and procedures, and personnel matters for the external grants and subcontracts, and will proactively review grantee budgets and program reports to identify potential issues or challenges. They will also make decisions regarding resource acquisition, (re)allocation, and no-cost extensions and apply analytical and problem solving techniques to business affairs associated with the external grants and sub-contracts.

The Grants and Contracts Manager will report to the Executive Director of the Educating Character Initiative and work closely with the Associate Director of Partnerships, the Assistant Director of Partnerships, and the Business Manager for the Educating Character Initiative, as well as the Wake Forest University Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and Legal Department.