Contracts and Grants Manager

SSS' primary business is to provide service - to provide our clients with the best expertise possible in statistical programming, data analysis, clinical trials support, program monitoring and evaluation, meeting planning, graphic design, and network support.

SSS' primary mission is to improve public health worldwide by providing technical, research, and program management services to government and private sector clients. Working largely behind the scenes, SSS helps clients to advance research missions, enhance communications, shape policy, and implement programs in the global battle against HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Our clients include federal agencies, state health organizations, clinical trials networks, and research entities.

SSS was founded in 1978, by Herbert J. Miller, Denis Ables, and Mary Frances leMat, and the company was a proud participant and graduate of the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program (1979 ' 88). Today, SSS is employee-owned and woman-owned. We have roughly 500 staff, with 2005 annual revenues expected to exceed $100 million. SSS has offices in Silver Spring, MD; Washington, DC; Durham, NC; Atlanta, GA; and Kampala, Uganda.

Contracts & Grants Manager

Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., an employee-owned professional services company located in downtown Silver Spring, MD, is seeking a dynamic and highly-motivated professional to provide life-cycle US Government, commercial and international contracts and grants management support for the firm's Biomedical Research Support Division's operations centers for the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Group ('IMPAACT') and for the Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA).

Reporting to the Director of Contracts & Grants, the Contracts & Grants Manager II's duties and responsibilities include the following:

1. Works closely with SSS project managers for assigned projects and with staff in other corporate offices such as Accounting, Business Development, and Human Resources; serves as primary business liaison with senior collaborator and client contracts management officials.
2. Negotiates, monitors and manages the most complex government, commercial and international contracts, grants, subcontracts and consulting agreements, including drafting and negotiating terms and conditions, budgets, teaming and non-disclosure agreements, and other legal documents and business correspondence as required.
3. Prepares and/or approves all contract/grant-related purchases, subcontracts and consultant agreements.
4. Ensures contractual and regulatory compliance, including allocability, allowability and reasonableness of proposed costs, identification and protection of intellectual property rights, and risk identification and management, including conflicts of interest; provides advice to senior staff on these and other business management issues.
5. Analyzes and evaluates SSS and subawardee budgets to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and with SSS policies and; performs desk audits of proposed subawardee indirect cost rates when required.
6. Recommends proposal pricing strategies; assists project and business development staff in budget and cost proposal review and/or preparation as required and ensures compliance of same with RFP and other relevant requirements.
7. Researches and recommends feasible and logical solutions to most complex contracts and grants problems.
8. Assists in the development of and provides training to SSS staff on corporate contracts and grants policies and procedures, document templates, databases and other work management tools;
9. Produces or contributes to the production of client and/or internal financial reports, including pipeline analyses, revenue projection and analyses, contract backlog, etc.
10. Will supervise assigned contracts and grants staff, including professional development and performance management.
11. Performs additional duties, including special projects, as required.

Qualified candidates for the position will meet most, and preferably all, of the following criteria:

1. Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, or related field; MBA helpful.
2. At least 8 years progressively responsible experience in US Government contracts, grants, subcontracts and procurement management, including extensive experience in the management of complex multi-year, multi-million dollar IDIQ, T&M, CPFF and FFP contracts. Former civilian agency GS-1102 background, especially with NIH, highly preferred; experience with contract research organizations also helpful.
3. Advanced knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, OMB Circulars A-21, A-110, A-122 and A-133, the NIH Grants Policy Statement and other relevant guidance required; working knowledge of the Federal Travel Regulation and the Department of State Standardized Regulations highly desirable.
4. Cost proposal/budget review and development experience highly desirable, as are cost/price and indirect rate analysis skills.
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential, as is proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel.
6. Demonstrated organizational, problem-solving and multitasking skills under tight deadlines are also essential, as is the ability to work well with little supervision.
7. Supervisory experience highly preferred.
8. Sense of humor and high tolerance for ambiguity eminently desirable.

Competitive salary, excellent benefits, EOE. For additional information about SSS and to submit an application, please visit our website at www.s-3.com, and please be sure to include your salary requirements in your cover letter. No calls, please.

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