Part Time Grants Manager

TITLE: Part-Time Grants Manager (20 hrs/week)

You must be a resident in one of the following states: MA, VT, ME, RI, NC, FL, CO and OH. 

WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE

Addgene’s Grants Manager will drive the planning, securing, and stewarding of Addgene’s grant-funded initiatives. These grants will fund innovative and impactful new initiatives that will bolster Addgene’s mission of supporting scientific discovery and collaboration among researchers worldwide. You will collaborate with leaders across Addgene to project-manage our grants processes, including persuasively describing our impact as well as fulfilling specific grant requirements and providing reporting and stewardship to funders.

POSITION REPORTS TO

Chief Financial Officer

APPROXIMATE START DATE

Fall 2024

HOURLY WAGE

$49.50 - $52.90/ hour

LOCATION & POLICY ON REMOTE WORK

This role is completely flexible to be fully remote, hybrid, or onsite, whatever works best for you! Our office is located at 490 Arsenal Way in Watertown, Massachusetts. Our beautiful office space has free, ample parking with a complimentary shuttle from Harvard Square and is on multiple bus lines, with the cost of public transit covered by Addgene (if onsite at least 4 days/week).

You have flexibility when you work your hours, but need to be available generally for meetings that occur during 9am-4pm EST.

You must be a resident in one of the following states: MA, VT, ME, RI, NC, FL, CO and OH. 

Addgene's Covid-19 Safety Measures:

At this time, vaccinations are strongly encouraged for all employees of Addgene, but not required.

The Organization:

Addgene is a thriving non-profit life sciences organization that supports and accelerates important research and discovery for scientists all over the world. Since its founding in 2004, Addgene has grown and innovated in order to assist the research community by archiving and sharing useful research materials and resources (such as plasmid DNA samples, viral vectors, and recombinant antibodies) with scientists worldwide. Broad availability of these unique research materials promotes the advancement of research in a wide variety of disciplines, including cancer, heart disease, and neurodegenerative disorders, while increasing collaboration within the scientific community. Learn more here from one of our founders, Melina Fan.

When joining our team as an “Addgenie”, you will work with multidisciplinary internal teams to help fulfill this mission, including scientists, software engineers and product developers, renowned customer support teams, marketing gurus, and business development professionals. Together, Addgenies create and enhance opportunities for research scientists worldwide to deposit their materials, find products and resources easily on our website, and receive unparalleled support in receiving and expertly using our materials in their own experiments.

The Role:

The Grants Manager will spearhead the organization’s grants program, expertly managing current, active grants and future funding opportunities. Collaborating with leaders across Addgene to project manage our grants processes and workflows, you will:

• Lead the strategy and administration of Addgene’s Grants function, including leading pre-award and post-award functions within Grants administration. 
• Manage Grants projects, including creating and executing detailed processes and workflows with key team leaders, such as Addgene’s effort reporting process. Manage Grants policies, including creating and updating existing policies as needed to meet new sponsor and/or organizational requirements.  
• Closely collaborate with the Research team and other key leaders at Addgene to inform and engage team members during all stages of grant application and subsequent project management, including meeting with grant leaders.  
  • Create and update grant management reports, sharing them with grant key leaders. 
• Act as go-to expert for leadership on the landscape of scientific federal grants and scientific foundations, including all pertinent federal grant rules and regulations.
• Partner with the Chief Financial Officer to maintain budget needs up against grant opportunities and to complete grant audit requirements. 
• Assist Addgene’s Research team as needed to create powerful, persuasive content describing Addgene’s impact within the scientific community.

To Be Successful in the Role, You Will:

• Motivate and influence others in a positive manner, working collaboratively
• Understand the dynamics of cross-functional and cross-departmental teams
• Forecast issues and proactively identify solutions
• Adapt to change while maintaining focus on objectives and the bigger picture
• Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Maintain confidentiality

Skills and Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree is required, advanced degree preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of Federal Grants rules and regulations is required
• Experience managing Federal Grant audits is required
• Experience working with Federal Grant reporting, administration, and project management required
• Knowledge of budgeting principles and financial management practices
• Expert project manager, extremely organized, capable of juggling multiple deadlines  
• Clear communicator and natural collaborator

Life at Addgene:

Addgene prides itself on being a truly special place to work. We are an inclusive and welcoming group of people from many backgrounds and perspectives, and we believe in flexibility and strong work/life balance. Our staff are engaged in multiple professional development opportunities, and give the company their ideas and feedback regularly. We also never pass up an opportunity to have a little fun, whether it be popping popcorn for our outdoor movie night, dressing up as Schitt’s Creek characters for our Halloween costume contest, or sharing hilarious pictures of our fur babies on our Slack #pets channel. Whether you’re a bookworm, an athlete, or an interior design connoisseur, there’s a place for you to step away from your daily work and connect with your colleagues.

Addgene also provides very competitive benefits and continuously works to maintain an inclusive culture:

• Benefits 

Addgene puts its people first. After one year of employment for our part time employees, we offer 40 hrs of PTO, $500 professional development stipend annually, and $500 lifestyle stipend annually. In addition, employees are encouraged to participate in an individual 403(b)(7)-retirement account, which Addgene contributes up to 4% after 2 years of employment.

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Addgene

Addgene is committed to creating and fostering a diverse, supportive, and inclusive working environment. All of our initiatives benefit from the diverse and open worldwide scientific community that we work with, and we believe that the best innovations and discoveries come from diverse teams. Addgene will continue to build these diverse teams, as well as continue to do the hard work of examining how Diversity, Equity and Inclusion can be meaningfully woven into our work life, foremost and always to combat bias of all kinds. We are looking forward to continuing to get to know and celebrate a variety of perspectives and backgrounds as we grow our teams; and in doing so, we will bring more scientists together to share their resources in order to change the world.