The Contract Coordinator is responsible for coordinating and overseeing contracts and subrecipient budgets, as well as supporting a variety of key financial and programmatic functions for the Maine Rural Health Transformation Program – Nutrition Education Program (RHTP-NEP).
The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) is a five-year initiative funded by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that supports innovative approaches to rural population health and expands access to preventive care while addressing the root causes of disease.
In Maine, the Nutrition Education Program (NEP) component ofRHTPfocuses on improving population health through evidence-based nutrition education and public health interventions. The program supports the approximately 690,000 Mainers living in rural communities and the health care organizations that serve them.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and monitor subrecipient and other contractual agreements, budgets, staffing plans, time and effort reports; develop tools as needed.
- Review subrecipient invoices for allowability of costs; respond to questions.
- Create and/or assist in preparing financial reports, budgets and contracts.
- Update, maintain and provide training of financial reporting tools used by subrecipients.
- Create and/or assist subrecipient financial guidance documents/newsletters.
- Troubleshoot subrecipient questions as received.
- Confer regularly with program staff and other department/University personnel, and/or various firms/organizations/individuals outside the University to plan and coordinate activities, exchange information, resolve problems, etc.
- Perform various accounting and departmental functions: prepare and process purchase orders; review invoices for payment, post transactions in departmental tracking tools; set up meetings; maintain contact lists.
- Provide fiscal training/orientation of Nutrition Educators.
- Assist and update the MaineRHTP-NEPfinance/program manual and website as needed.
- Travel throughout Maine as needed.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Associate degree in business or other appropriate discipline, plus two to three years of relevant bookkeeping and administrative experience, or a combination of comparable education and experience.
- Basic knowledge and skills in general accounting/bookkeeping principles and procedures.
- Experience with grant fiscal management preferred.
- Strong administrative and organizational skills.
- Strong computer skills and proficient in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word required.
- Good reading, spelling/grammar and general writing and math skills.
- Ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of University personnel, students, and/or outside individuals/organizations.
- WordPress and previousUNEexperience desirable.
About The University of New England
UNEis Maine’s largest private university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible online offerings. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to positively impact a world full of challenges. We are the state’s top provider of health professionals and home to Maine’s only medical and dental colleges, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs, and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.
Benefits Overview
- Multiple health and dental plan options, plus vision coverage.
- Up to8%retirement plan match.
- Generous leave time, including vacation, sick, and personal time, and 12+ holidays per year.
- Educational benefits:
- UNEtuition waiver for employees, spouses, and domestic partners
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