Grants and Contracts Specialist I - Deans Office
Mount SinaiNew York, New York, United States
Posted March 9, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education.
Job Description
This individual provides technical assistance and guidance in the preparation, submission, processing, and management of research grants and contract proposals, awards, and agreements for researchers within the institution/ department, ensuring compliance with federal, state and private agency rules and regulations.
Requirements
- Reviews grant and contract proposals and expenditures prior to submissions for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Acts as a liaison with departmental administrators, faculty and extramural funding agencies (federal, state, local and non-profit organizations) to endorse any edits to the proposals prior to institutional endorsement.
- Ensures that grants and contracts applications are submitted and routed to the appropriate committee (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Review Board, Bio-Safety Officer and Financial Conflict of Interest in Research Committee).
- Analyzes monthly grant activity and monitors expenditures posted to assigned grant projects and prepares customized fiscal reports for academic and service departments within the institution.
- Assists with pre-award budget development, post-award monitoring, program sub-contract management, and grant closeout procedures.
- Provides information to Sponsored Programs Accounting for fund activation.
- Reviews and provides supplemental and amended information to extramural sponsors on grant applications.
- Maintains data for all non-federal sponsorship in the Grants Tracking System.
- May create and maintain computer documentation and appropriate files for proposal submissions, awards, and research expenditures.
- Acts as a liaison with the Institutional Bio-Safety Officer, Biomedical Research Alliance of New York and Committee on Special Awards and Fellowships.
- May create and distribute funding opportunities packets, calendars and special alerts.
- Performs other related duties.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
- 401k matching