Grants and Contracts Manager

Job Description

Grants & Contracts Manager-Renal | Mount Sinai Health System

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Mount Sinai Health System, located in New York, New York, USA. The Mount Sinai Health System is a leading academic medical system dedicated to advancing health for all people through innovative research, education, and patient care. This role is crucial for powering high-impact kidney research by serving as a strategic partner to faculty and leadership, ensuring expert oversight of complex research portfolios, and guiding financial stewardship and compliance. Your work will directly support faculty success and meaningful improvements across the Division of Nephrology.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – New York, New York, USA
• Pay: $93600–$130000 annually
• Team: Reports to the Division Administrator within the Division of Nephrology.
• Mission: Manages complex grant and contract activities to ensure sound financial stewardship and advance innovative kidney research and faculty success.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Collaborative Partnership: Serve as the primary liaison between faculty, internal grants and finance teams, external funding agencies, and various internal administrative offices.
• Grants and Contracts Management: Provide comprehensive oversight of grants and contracts, including pre-award budget development, post-award monitoring, subcontract management, and closeout procedures.
• Financial Analysis & Reporting: Analyze financial data, generate projections and variance reports for Principal Investigators, and propose solutions to identify funding issues.
• Operational Leadership: Lead process improvements, monitor compliance, and provide high-level guidance to faculty and grants staff to support sound decision-making and research strategy.
• Payroll & Effort Coordination: Manage salary source allocation transactions, internal personnel effort trackers, and complete annual time and effort reports.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• Experience: 5 years of progressive experience in grants and contracts management.
• Skills: Strong analytical skills, good communication skills, attention to detail, knowledge of accounting principles and practices, and intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office Word and Excel.
• Bonus: Master’s degree (MPA, MPH, or MHA preferred), experience in finance.