Organizational Overview
Founded in 1998 by Leonard A. and Ronald S. Lauder, the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation is dedicated to rapidly accelerating the discovery of drugs to prevent, treat and cure Alzheimer's disease. The ADDF is the only public charity solely focused on funding the development of drugs for Alzheimer's, employing a venture philanthropy model to support research in academia and the biotech industry. The ADDF’s leadership and contributions to the field have played a pivotal role in bringing the first Alzheimer’s PET scan (Amyvid™) and blood test (PrecivityAD™) to market, as well as fueling the current robust and diverse drug pipeline. Through the generosity of its donors, the ADDF has awarded nearly $250 million to fund over 720 Alzheimer's drug discovery programs, biomarker programs and clinical trials in 19 countries.
The path to approved Alzheimer's treatments starts with a better way to diagnose patients. Bill Gates and ADDF Co-Founder Leonard A. Lauder partnered to adopt a new approach that brings together philanthropic capital with a venture mindset to advance bold ideas for easier, more accurate, and earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Launched in July 2018, the Diagnostics Accelerator has mobilized commitments totaling $100 million from Bill Gates, Leonard A. Lauder, Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), Eli Lilly & Company, Biogen, the Shanahan Family Foundation, the Dolby family, the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, and others. The Diagnostics Accelerator focuses on translating the knowledge we have gained about the causes of Alzheimer's disease into biomarkers and diagnostics to enable precision medicine. Research funded to date focuses on various methods and targets including blood tests in various stages of development, as well as eye scans and digital tools.
To learn more, please visit: http://www.alzdiscovery.org/
Position Summary:
The Grant Operations Manager is responsible for managing the comprehensive administrative components of the grant application and contracting process, pre- and post-award, and review process. This team member will also support the scientific staff in managing ADDF scientific initiatives and partnerships.
Placement: The Manager, Mission-Related Investments, reports to the Director of Grants Management and works closely with ADDF’s scientific staff, including the Executive Director and Chief Science Officer. This role is positioned in L2 of ADDF’s salary structure; salary range for this role is $72,000-$82,000
Key Responsibilities
- Primary grant operations lead for ADDF’s Therapeutics portfolio grant lifecycle, pre- and post-award, and grant review processes.
- Manage funded project portfolio, ensuring data integrity and accuracy, overseeing review of award grantee budgets and financial and scientific progress reports of funded awardees as well as transfers, budget revisions, or other required programmatic updates.
- Lead progress reports process including request of complete scientific and financial reports, coordinating scheduling of progress calls and processing of follow-up requirements including payments, No Cost Extensions, terminations and ensuring programmatic close-out at end of cycle including financial reconciliation and guaranteeing unspent funds are returned.
- Ensure funded investigators remain in compliance with project progress and responsibilities as outlined in signed agreements.
- Primary point person for grant/awardee escalation issues and supporting resolution, engaging other ADDF department leads, as required.
- Primary operations lead for grant review process, collaborating closely with scientific leadership to assign reviewers, compile and distribute pre- and post-review deliverables, draft agendas, and other meeting materials, communicate outcomes with applicants and ensure honorariums are paid to reviewers.
- Assist in preparing and sharing information and reports to constituents and internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage maintenance of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and records and details for research programs and award administration to ensure business continuity and compliance.
- Serve as liaison for Legal Affairs and funded institutions for grant agreement and/or contracting issues.
- Develop and implement innovative processes to improve, streamline and ensure transparency for tracking of grant management cycle while ensuring adequate internal controls and oversee quality control of data to ensure accurate and efficient reporting of grants data.
- Assist in conducting internal audits to test compliance with regulatory and organizational requirements.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 2 - 4 years’ experience in grant administration, grant management, grant coordination or project management, including practical understanding of the full grant life cycle process.
- Excellent project management skills with experience in managing and supervising administrative projects.
- Advanced Microsoft Suite skillset with excelled proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Proficiency in accounting concepts, financial data, and budgets
- Possess excellent organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
- Ability to perform in a cross-functional team approach and job responsibilities.
- Exhibits initiative and provides good judgement.
- Detail oriented and able to manage competing time sensitive requests and priorities.
- Strong work ethic and integrity
- An understanding and commitment to ADDFs mission
ADDF is an equal opportunity employer, committed to attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional people. We welcome and encourage applicants for all positions respecting the full spectrum of education, experience, age, race, creed, color, national origin, sex, religion, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, marital status, veteran status or other military status, or citizenship status, genetic carrier status, genetic information, AIDS or AIDS-related complex or HIV status, being a victim of domestic violence, protected activity (i.e., filing a charge of discrimination, participating in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposing prohibited discrimination), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.