Adriann Bautista

• Provides expert management of the grant’s portfolio through the coordination of all aspects of grant administration to ensure the smooth implementation of grants pre- and post-award.

• Maintains a strong working knowledge of organizational priorities, convenes, and facilitates meetings with key stakeholders for concept development on priority topic areas, and coordinates resources for proposal development.

•Directs the preparation of proposal budget development, prepares the final budget, facilitates the mechanics of proposal development and submission, including project management, coordinating assignments, and writing as needed, coordinates the final packaging of the grant for submission, and submits proposals into all major systems.

• Reviews all awarded grants and sub-awards and supports implementation for the full grant lifecycle.

• Manage the extramural sponsored research portfolio, consisting of up to 150 research grant accounts for faculty and scientists within an assigned division, department, center, and/or program.
• Manage the fiscal and administrative aspects of federal and non-federal research grants, including preparing and approving proposal budgets, forecasting, closeouts, and preparation of analytical reports for PIs and other stakeholders.
• Implemented business processes to streamline daily operations and increase efficiency.

• Responsible for the administration of departmental grants from multiple funding sources (federal, industry, and private foundation sponsors), providing both pre-award and post-award support to investigators.
• Responsible for the completion of pre-award sponsored program budgets, and the compilation of all administrative portions of grant proposals.
• Provide proactive and ongoing post-award tracking of expenditures, adherence to TJU and award agency policies and procedures, and interim, progress, and final reports.
• Liaison between the department and the Office of Research Administration for all aspects of the grant accounts. Manage expense transactions applied to awards and administrative requests of a sponsored award.

• Assist the Director in preparing budgets for divisional research and clinical and administrative activities, following University guidelines.

• Prepare supporting budget schedules and perform budget reconciliation and analysis.

• Prepare financial forecasts and explain budget variances on an ongoing basis and as needed by the Department and University.

• Oversee pre-award & post-award administration of all federal and non-federal grant accounts.

• Supervise the divisional administrative support staff, or delegate supervisory function where appropriate.