Senior Grant Administrator (Sponsored Research)

Location: Cambridge, MA; hybrid schedule with 2 days per week onsite

Salary: $83,000–$116,333 per year

Company

hirify.global is a scientific research institution supporting faculty, investigators, and sponsored research programs.

What you will do

• Act as a senior liaison for principal investigators, lab leadership, administrative offices, sponsors, and collaborating institutions.
• Lead proposal development for moderately complex projects, including sponsor requirement interpretation, contract review, budget preparation, justifications, and Just-in-Time submissions.
• Manage the full award lifecycle, including setup, subawards, procurement, travel, specialized service approvals, reporting, and closeout.
• Perform advanced reconciliation and financial forecasting, identify funding cliffs, and recommend strategic reallocations.
• Oversee personnel effort and salary allocations, hiring requisitions, purchases, invoices, cost transfers, and sponsor-compliant expense reviews.
• Lead audit documentation, monitor subrecipient activity, resolve compliance bottlenecks, and implement process improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related professional discipline with 5+ years of related experience, or an associate’s degree with 7+ years of related experience.
• Experience administering federal and non-federal grants across their full lifecycles, including NIH, NSF, and DOD awards.
• Proficiency in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting in complex environments.
• Experience with Excel, G-Suite, and grants management software such as ASSIST, Grants.gov, and S2S systems.
• Ability to independently manage complex work, exercise sound judgment, adapt existing approaches, and own outcomes with minimal instruction.
• Ability to communicate moderately complex concepts to varied stakeholders and direct subsequent action.
• Strong sponsored research knowledge, critical problem-solving skills, mentorship ability, discretion with privileged financial and personnel data, and commitment to ethical compliance.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with frequent video, email, and in-person collaboration.
• Standard office work involving computer use and data analysis, with occasional light lifting.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k); flexible spending and health savings accounts; paid holidays; winter closure; paid time off; parental and family care leave; and an employee assistance program.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this opportunity.