Weill Cornell Medicine · 1 day ago
Grant Portfolio Manager
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$97K/yr - $115K/yr
5+ years expWeill Cornell Medicine is seeking a Grant Portfolio Manager to provide centralized administrative and financial support to principal investigators in managing their research portfolios. The role involves assisting with grant applications, maintaining documentation, managing grant transfers, and ensuring compliance with reporting requirements.
BiotechnologyEducationHealth CareInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyMedical
Responsibilities
Assists with the preparation and development of all administrative aspects of grant applications, including but not limited to budgets and budget justifications. Assists principal investigators with overall formatting of proposals for submission
Assists principal investigators in preparation and submission of grant-related documentation, which may include supplemental materials; just-in-time documents; progress reports; advance account, no-cost extension and carryforward requests; and others
Maintains repository of biosketches, support pages, and facilities & other resources forms
Manages grant transfers for new and departing faculty
Researches and recommends new funding opportunities for faculty
Coordinates with the Office of Sponsored Research Administration for account set up. Verifies accuracy of budget information within the financial system
Performs variance analysis of budgets and expenditures and resolves discrepancies
Manages recruitment/start-up accounts and other discretionary accounts. Creates financial projections and suggests alternative spending plans to principal investigators. Prepares fiscal year personnel distribution reports for faculty
Performs salary allocations and approves purchasing and accounts payable transactions
Verifies grant account set-ups and audits budget/project periods information in financial systems. Performs subcontract set up and expense payment/tracking in conjunction with the contracts office and accounts payable
Facilitates all reporting requirements. Advises faculty when reports/invoices are due and liaises with Grants and Contracting Accounting to reconcile accounts for timely reporting. Contributes to administrative sections of technical reports as applicable
Ensures compliance of departmental research effort reporting activities
Processes internal paperwork for routing of research-related agreements, including but not limited to Sponsored Research Agreements, Material Transfer Agreements, Data Use Agreements, and Non-Disclosure/Confidentiality Agreements
Serves as liaision for the training of new staff
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
Approximately five years of related experience with grants management
Demonstrated proficiency with MS Office Suite and database applications, especially MS Excel
Demonstrated knowledge of accounting principles
Customer service-oriented and ability to work in a team environment
Emotionally intelligent and comfortable working with varied personalities
Preferred
Master's degree in business, public administration, or public health highly preferred
Seven or more years of related experience is highly desired
Prior experience with federal and non-federal sponsored research regulations and policies, including pre-and post- award grant management is highly desired
Experience with a large variety of award mechanisms/funding instruments and sponsoring agencies is highly preferred
Active participant in a cross-functional administrative office setting highly preferred
Company
Weill Cornell Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine is an academic medical institution that offers health care services.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (171)
2024 (201)
2023 (198)
2022 (151)
2021 (151)
2020 (125)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$69.8MKey Investors
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesU.S. Department of DefenseNational Cancer Institute
2025-08-15Grant· $14.9M
2024-12-10Grant· $1.4M
2024-08-15Grant· $12.4M
Leadership Team
Robert Min
President and CEO of Physician Organization
Lara Pes, PhD
Co-founder of WCM Green Labs Group
Recent News
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