• Oversees the strategic implementation of grant awards.
• Ensures compliance with all contract requirements, schedules, and provisions.
• Supervises other program managers.
• Provides guidance, assigns and reviews work, and conducts performance evaluations.
• Contributes to strategic planning.
• Works with project stakeholders to ensure detailed business and technical requirements are defined to ensure success in program.
• Develops and manages program plans from inception to deployment, applying project management methodology and enforcing best practice standards.
• Analyzes costs and pricing data submitted by the contract centers to verify and substantiate direct and indirect costs.
• Prepares requests for contract actions and proposals.
• Initiates and monitors program actions including budgets, purchasing, and hiring activities.
• Interacts with project stakeholders by facilitating information flow as a liaison between research staff, Principal Investigators, project sponsors, research administrators and HJF Program Management in the administration of agreements, contracts and research compliance.
• Applies expertise in establishing more complex standard operating procedures and leading improvements.
• Responds to complex requests and escalated complaints.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role.
• May include budgetary responsibility to include plan/forecast, prepare, approve, monitor.

• Knowledge of organizational objectives, the federal budget process, office automation.
• Ability to work completely independently, use sound judgement in solving problems, and coordinate many complex systems and programs simultaneously.
• Knowledge of project management principles, and good communications, customer/client relationship skills and people management experience.

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