The Projects Officer/Grants Specialist acts as an institutional liaison with extramural sponsors, such as federal agencies, state and local governments, industry, and nonprofit entities. They work under minimal supervision to manage proposal preparation and/or post-award activities on grants, contracts, and program projects, both routine and complex. The role involves performing moderately complex administrative and financial functions related to budgeting and forecasting, requiring specific knowledge, skills, and broad application of policies, precedents, and systems within the context of internal policies and external regulations. The Projects Officer/Grants Specialist in the NYU Office of Sponsored Programs works with a team of professionals who manage a research portfolio exceeding $350 million. Pre-award duties include reviewing, endorsing, and submitting highly complex institutional funding proposals. This involves reviewing and verifying a range of sponsor-required pre-award documentation, such as NIH Just-in-Time requests, revised budgets, regulatory compliance assurances, data management plans, subaward/consortium agreements, export control compliance certifications, and conflict of interest disclosure status. Non-financial post-award duties include performing comprehensive reviews of a diverse portfolio of sponsored awards, such as fixed-price agreements, clinical research awards, contracts, grants, assistance agreements, and cooperative agreements. This also includes tasks like conveying grant vs. gift determinations and responding to vendor registrations for payments. The Projects Officer/Grants Specialist provides advice to faculty and departmental administrators on critical and/or sensitive sponsored programs issues, interprets a broad range of sponsor policies, government regulations, and award terms and conditions, coordinates and/or endorses prior approval requests, and facilitates award closeouts. They interact with a broad cohort of campus and University offices to facilitate the management, administration, and conduct of sponsored programs. The role also involves assisting in supporting all pre-award and non-financial post-award grant activities to ensure deliverables are achieved timely and in compliance with all standards, regulations, and guidelines for both external sponsors and the University.