Assist in the preparation of all budget-related materials and documentation for submission to funders including request for proposal submissions, contract renewals and budget modifications. Function as a mandate reporter exhibiting awareness and ability to design and identify person centered and individualized goals with realistic measurable timeframes. Understand all grant provisions and ensure compliance with each grant reporting requirement. view job details

Prepare letters of inquiry, proposals, grant applications and private donation funder reports, ensuring that all data is completed accurately and on time. Develop, implement, maintain, and revise policies and procedures for the operation of Grants and Compliance and its related activities to prevent illegal, unethical, or improper conduct. Assist with the supervision of staff involved in the procurement process and work closely with other departmental supervisors to ensure that all staff engaged in procurement and accounts payable activities are properly trained and that purchasing takes place smoothly and in a compliant manner. view job details

Development at ECS blends cutting-edge research with a well-established and trusted educational service mission, sophisticated software and database architectures, and development tools. Review, drafting and negotiation of contracts, research agreements, nondisclosure agreements, teaming agreements, and other formal agreements or legal instruments to ensure terms are favorable to the University and conform to University policies. Performs a wide range of clerical and technical duties related to the operations of the Division including purchasing, personnel, vendor relations, record keeping, travel requests, and budgetary control. view job details

Prepares internal and external financial, budgetary and accounting reports of considerable complexity requiring independent judgment, initiative, and extensive knowledge of accounting policies and procedures of the organization, and various federal, state and local agencies. Demonstrates some level of ability to analyze detailed finance and accounting processes to identify improvement opportunities and to simplify complex processes to improve reliability and achieve cost and cycle time reductions. Attends all mandatory meetings and staff meetings as required, and actively participates in other departmental professional development including providing training and consultation. view job details

Manage and conduct the full range of activities needed to develop persuasive proposals for grant requests, including the writing of narratives, preparation of budgets, and development of final materials for submittal, ensuring all deadlines are met. Lead post-award grant administration to ensure that budgeting and administrative policies, procedures, activity tracking, reporting and any other grantor requirements are followed. Prepares quarterly grants attestations, performs grant financial analysis to identify and forecast trends in spending and potential shortfalls or overdrafts, recommending strategies to effectively manage spending patterns and mitigate business risk. view job details

How to Keep a Low Profile & Stay Out of Office Gutter Politics Office Politics? Proceed with Caution We recently ran an article about why it's imperative for successful employees to engage in office politics. But as in the case everywhere, reasonable people will disagree. And that includes the writers at Salary.com. So here's the flip side of the office politics coin. Office politics occur in most workplaces. When employees spend hours per day together and vie for the same promotions and raises, competition is inevitable. Some people claim office politics are an essential part of the workpl... view article details

You've Gotta Want It! Has your gym lock been repurposed for use as a paperweight? While it might be quite effective at holding down all those 'must read' memos, it looked better dangling from your gym locker. Remember? The gym? You first wandered in months ago. Hopeful. Resolved. You made promises. Signed papers. And bought a lock.Sure, it’s tough to fit in fitness. Especially in the dead of winter with crowded gyms full of people clinging to their New Year's resolutions and temperatures that make working out outside more than a little icy. Not to mention the fact that your job may re... view article details

Q: Hi,My name is 'Edie.' I am 51 years old. Last May I started working as a medical assistant for a local podiatrist. Unfortunately, although I learned a lot and loved every minute that I spent with the patients, my co-workers took the time and effort in every way possible to let me know they didn't like me nor accept me as part of the group.  I am very outgoing. They went as far as broadcasting every single mistake I made and some that I really didn't do and 'tell' on me to the doctor that I was working for, keeping to themselves important information about patients, coordinating wearing the ... view article details

Dear Annette,It's about the office refrigerator. What can I do?EwDear Ew,Thanks to the artistic and janitorial exertions of an army of excruciatingly fastidious People, my kitchen refrigerator is an illuminated heaven of champagne, caviar, and assorted nail colors, plus the occasional foil sculpture concealing a savory ort for my dog Dickie. Naturally, his water bowl must be chilled before use as well.Refrigerators were an excellent idea in their day, but really, do we still need them in this economy? These days, I wouldn't be caught dead eating groceries. Even when I entertain, the food is fr... view article details

Dear Annette,Twentysomethings have taken over the office where I have been working since they were in elementary school. It seems that everyone has a navel ring except me. Can I stay hip without subjecting myself to the needle?Experienced but InexperiencedDear Experienced,Many employees over a certain age feel anxious about the correlation between computers in the cradle and rings in the navel. Alas, and yet hooray: the future belongs to the children, and to the people who were children only recently.What you need is a reverse mentor: someone to escort you proudly into the new economy with das... view article details

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