Review sponsor eligibility and application requirements and ensure applicants understand them, responsible for the entire application excluding scientific content, meet and communicate internal and external deadlines in a strict deadline-driven environment, research funding opportunities for investigators, draft non-scientific materials for proposals, coordinate with administrators and faculty from other departments or organizations to complete proposals, coordinate institutional review of proposals by Grants & Contracts and submission to sponsors, prepare JIT information and responses to other pre-award inquiries. The Lead Research Administrator is responsible for the following primary functions, autonomously in collaboration with Department Administrator as needed: Grant Preparation (pre-award), Portfolio Management (post-award), Procurement, Human Resources, Compliance, Cores, Centers, and Chargebacks, Special projects and/or initiatives to improve systems and processes.