Job Description

The Office of Grants Administration serves to provide oversight in grants management and compliance, in order to promote effective stewardship of RIE funds managed by A*STAR as an Implementing Agency or Grant Intermediary, as well as grants held by A*STAR as grant recipients.

The role of the Manager / Senior Manager for Horizon 2 includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Perform Secretariat duties for funding initiatives, including the running of grant calls, convening of evaluation panels, engagement of government stakeholders, scheduling of meetings, logistics, writing of minutes to facilitate review process.
• Execute policies and processes pertaining to the administration of the funding initiatives.
• Communicate funding initiative policies and processes to public sector research performers
• Liaise with grantees on pre- and post-award matters
• Collation and preparation of data for reporting to stakeholders
• Cleaning, maintenance and analysis of project KPI and other data
• Review the progress of awarded grants regularly to ensure that KPIs, milestones and budget utilisations are on track, and highlight issues for early intervention.
• Monitor awarded projects to ensure compliance with grants management policies and procedures
• Establish/build excellence in grants management through the development, refinement and implementation of best practices within A*STAR and through working with other funding agencies
• Collation and checking of grants documentation (e.g. proposals, reports, variation requests, fund requisitions).
• Organisation of roadshows/events/workshops in relation to grant calls
  
  

Requirements:

• Good tertiary degree
• Minimum 3 - 5 years of relevant working experience in grant administration/research funding
• Experience and/or keen interest in work related to governance and policy, especially in the research & development sector
• Keen interest in cutting edge science & technology
• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking abilities, and good writing skills.
• Resourceful, responsible and independent
• Able to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders