Grants and Contract Specialist CONRAD

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Grants and Contract Specialist, CONRAD
The candidate will be responsible for: Meets with CONRAD leadership and key departments on a regular basis to review short and long term program goals and contracting objectives (travel to Arlington may be required); Works with CONRAD and company departments to prepare grant applications/proposals, solicitation responses, or statements of work to funding agencies such as USAID, Gates, NIH, other U.S. Government agencies, private foundations, pharma and international aid organizations or governments; Serves as the primary CONRAD contracting officer, for awards from funding agencies; Works with funding agencies, as required, to determine guidelines for collaborations, subawards, and contracts and provides technical advice related to same to CONRAD program managers, technical monitors and other personnel; Develops and maintains a system for collecting information for pre-award due diligence reviews of contractors, subrecipients and business collaborators (e.g., the evaluation of prospective organization’s financial health, project management, human resources, administrative and operational capacity and experience); Develops and maintains a process to continuously coordinate and follow-up with CONRAD and company departments to ensure timely issuance, review, and execution of all contracts and updates CONRAD Executive Director, Sr. Director of Operations and leadership on a regular basis; Under supervision of the OGC: Prepares non-disclosure and confidentiality documents upon request by CONRAD leadership for the discovery phase of projects/programs; Prepares/reviews material transfer (MTAs), clinical trial (CTAs), and research collaboration (RCAs) agreements and memoranda of understanding (MOUs) upon request by CONRAD leadership for preclinical and clinical projects/programs; Reviews award agreements and amendments when grant applications are funded; Drafts, reviews, and negotiates terms and conditions for contracts with funding agencies, collaborators, subrecipients, and contractors based on CONRAD program goals and company legal office templates/training; Develops and maintains a process to ensure life-cycle oversight of all post-execution contract activity to ensure compliance with contractual requirements; Performs final closeout of contracts to assure that deliverables have been met, inspected and accepted by CONRAD before final payments are distributed; Works with various CONRAD and company departments and outside entities to resolve issues arising from contractual relationships; Works with company Technology Transfer to identify and manage all contracts related to CONRAD/company intellectual property or intellectual property of others being utilized by CONRAD; Creates SOPs or similar documentation to memorialize the systems and processes developed for life-cycle contracts management; Utilizes company or CONRAD contracts management systems to track contract states and to house contract meta-date and documents; Assist CONRAD with responding to company annual internal audit and GA for research/subrecipient monitoring compliance; and Performs other duties as assigned. Bachelor’s degree required plus 3+ years of experience in research, government, pharma, or technology contract coordination, or as a legal assistant in government or private industry required.

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