The Director of Finance and Grants reports directly to the Director of the Renée Crown Wellness Institute. In this capacity, this position will serve as a leader at the Institute, and provide high-level budgetary, financial policy, and operational support to the Director and the Institute. This position is expected to provide vision and leadership and has the authority and responsibility to represent the Institute in financial affairs, including fiscal issues, budgeting, accounting and gift administration to support strategic directions.

This role will provide key financial oversight for the Institute’s complex production and operational budgets, identify and implement efficiencies, and support the Institute with forward-thinking and adaptive fiscal planning and budgeting. This position engages in long-term strategic projects, planning in consultation with the Director and leadership team, in addition to supervising financial, technical, and administrative personnel.

This position will collaborate and connect with relevant campus offices and implement campus administrative and fiscal processes and policies and will develop procedures to ensure the quality of administrative and financial processes and adherence with Crown Institute and grant reporting requirements.

The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Who We Are
Who We Are
The Crown Institute’s research focuses on practices, programs, and policies that cultivate wellness among children and youth, families and caregivers, and educators. Scholars in multiple fields work together and in partnership with families, teachers, young people, and community members. The overall approach to the study of wellness in the Crown Institute foregrounds the importance of contextual factors and addresses disparities in access to health and education, such as those related to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, language, geography, or other forms of identity. Current areas of Crown Institute work include but are not limited to participatory action research with Latinx families, mindfulness and compassion among educators and youth, and factors that support young people’s sense of belonging and agency in communities and schools.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
Finance Management

Act as the financial authority, directing and managing all daily accounting functions by directing the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with federal state and university rules and regulations. Establishes proper audit trails. Requires ability to evaluate the relevance and importance of finance and HR principles, and leadership skills to build a teamwork environment.
Administer and monitor Institute budgets, expenses, and revenues for general, auxiliary, gift, grant, and service funds. Manages cost center accountability and net position for the Institute. Approves budget journal entries to align funding with expenses. Prepares monthly financial reports and financial projections. Reviews and approves all journal entries, payroll expense transactions, cash transfers, and requisitions over $10,000.
Report financial status to RCWI leadership. Develops status reports by analyzing expenditures and by calculating projections based on the goals and current activities of the Institute programs.
Prepare projections for sponsored research projects and work with the investigators to plan for optimal and appropriate usage of awarded funds.
Manage all general, auxiliary, and gift fund speedtypes, including planning for payroll allocations.
Approving authority for procurement cards and primary approver for all requisitions. Provides guidance as purchasing authority.
Proposal Development

Develop budgets for grant proposals to outside agencies (federal, state, and private). Requires knowledge of funding agency rules and regulations, Office of Management and Budget circulars, and University policy and procedures. Provides oversight for other grant proposal submissions not under the direct control of this position.
Act as authority, advising principal investigators (PIs) of procedural options available such as collaborative vs. subcontracting, consulting vs. subcontracting, on-campus F&A vs. off-campus F&A rates, cost sharing, matching, Position Management Portal, etc.
Collaborate with Office of Contract and Grants' Proposal Analyst. Defends budgets to the University or funding agency as required. Acts as liaison among the University, the Pl, other collaborating institutions, and the funding agency. Requires supervision of PIs on managing the fiscal components of contract and grant proposals.
Human Resources

Functions as primary supervisor of the Institute’s HR liaison and serves as primary HR back-up as needed.
Assist HR team with salary rosters for all employee classes, and other HR reporting as needed.