Coordinate the grant proposal submissions and manage department grants. Oversee the P-cards and T-cards and purchasing for the department. Manages departmental contracts. Duties Responsibilities: Assists the Director of Departmental Business Affairs to post, update, and reconcile transactions for various funds. Manages faculty start-up institutional research funds. Processes subcontract budgeting, re-budgeting requests, and consulting agreements. Processes faculty expenditure requests and reimbursements. Provides other support for faculty research activities. Assists in managing faculty research funds. Assists the director in budget preparation, contracts, grant close out calculations, consultant agreements, and small business plan for subcontracts. Prepares budget for various sponsored research grants and contracts as well as internal awards, uploads and routes proposals in electronic systems or grant portals, communications with PI and central office to ensure timely approval for budgets and submission of proposals. Prepares Proposal Approval Forms (PAF) for central office approvals. Tracks and files approved PAFs for department records. Maintains budget files and proposal files for submitted and awarded proposals, updates and maintains internal grant proposal database. Setting up files for new awards and verify the budget entries in Banner. Communicates with grant office for budget entry correction or other necessary changes. Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.