Campus: OSU-Center for Health Sciences
Contact Name & Email: Jamie Childers, Jamie.Childers@okstate.edu
Work Schedule: Typically, Monday - Friday 8 hour shifts
Appointment Length: Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice
Hiring Range: $ Salary
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About this Position:
The Director of Grants, Contracts, and Post Award Administration provides strategic leadership and operational oversight of post-award sponsored research administration at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS). The Director is responsible for ensuring the effective financial management, regulatory compliance, and administrative oversight of externally sponsored grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements in accordance with federal and state regulations, sponsor requirements, and institutional policies. The Director leads the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of institutional post-award policies, procedures, internal controls, and administrative systems to promote financial accountability, operational efficiency, and effective stewardship of sponsored funds. Responsibilities include oversight of sponsored project financial reporting, billing, cash management, expenditure monitoring, effort certification, subrecipient monitoring, audit coordination, and award closeout. Serving as a key institutional resource and advisor, the Director collaborates with research leadership, principal investigators, departmental administrators, central finance, and other university stakeholders to address complex financial and regulatory matters, mitigate institutional risk, and support the university's research mission. The Director also provides leadership, supervision, and professional development for post-award administration staff while fostering a collaborative, accountable, and service-oriented organizational culture.
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