Senior Post Award Specialist

Sr. Post-Award Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Manage funded projects, including Clinical Trials, in compliance with Nemours policies and standard operating procedures; when applicable, with consideration to external audits according to OMB (Office of Management and Budget), Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and other federal and state guidelines.
• Create project number, update effort allocations, & create RSUBs when applicable.
• Responsible for post-award services including, timely set-up of project account, day-to-day expense to budget financial management, analyze agreements and grant awards to determine administrative restrictions, review expense allowability, compute projections to ensure proper spending.
• Complete quarterly financial meetings with all PIs.
• Review and monitor subcontracts; create and maintain records of Research Subcontracts (RSUB) Purchase Orders (PO) for subrecipient PI invoice review and approval.
• Review, analyze and approve expenditures and related documentations,
• Process labor and non-labor cost transfers in accordance to sponsor allowability & requirements.
• Monitor expenditures, analyze variance of actual costs versus budget.
• Maintain updated financial projections according to activity dates and budget variances.
• Partner with Post-Award Accounting on project number set-up, financial reviews, reconciliations, projections, close-outs, and final financial reporting (FFR).
• Ensure timely submission of the technical progress reports or deliverables by principal investigators in accordance with grant guidelines or contract provisions.

Required:

• 3-5 years of Post-Award Specialist experience in grant research/grant administration
• Bachelor's Degree required
• Must have experience working with industry, federal, and non-federal grants
• Must have financial/accounting experience
• Clinical Research/Clinical Trial experience HIGHLY preferred
• Can work remotely, but must live near Wilmington, DE ; Orlando, FL ; or Jacksonville, FL

This is a Permanent position based out of Wilmington, DE.

The pay range for this position is $60000.00 - $90000.00/yr.

https://www.nemours.org/content/dam/nemours/shared/collateral/nemours-benefits-summary.pdf

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on Apr 10, 2026.

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