| Location: Hyde Park Campus Job Description: - Works with multidisciplinary faculty teams to develop funding and research growth opportunities and supports RDS in developing large federal proposals and institutional planning activities.
- Manages the internal funding portal that supports seed funding programs and federal limited opportunities.
- Helps to manage the RDS seed funding program (BIG), including administrative aspects of the grant management process.
- Identifies and curates relevant federal limited opportunities.
- Maintains RDS website.
- Works with Federal Relations colleagues to identify and assess opportunities for support of university research programs.
- Occasional travel to national and affiliated laboratories.
- Reviews all applications against University guidelines, in addition to drafting progress reports, non-competing applications, amendments, and budgeting. Responsible for all data entry and preparation of grant reports and trend analysis.
- Handles straightforward post-award activities including account creations, regulatory and compliance monitoring, salary allocations, effort reporting, grant projections, cost allocations, cost center charges, equipment inventory, invoice preparation, grant closing process, and account closing.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Preferred Qualifications Education: - Bachelor's degree.
- Master's degree.
- Ph.D. in the physical, biological or medical sciences.
Experience: - Success in complex environments where collaboration and influence management are critical to success.
- At least 3 years progressively responsible experience in academia and/or DOE National Laboratories in project management, research administration, complex proposal development, research program development or capture management.
- Participation in a research environment with knowledge of relevant federal agencies, policies, and procedures.
- High level of fluency in word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software (e.g. MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
- Comfort with technical platforms and databases.
Preferred Competencies - Demonstrated ability to work across groups and coordinate multidisciplinary teams and intra- and inter-institutional partnerships.
- Proven ability with grant-management software and databases.
- Demonstrated experience with scientific grant writing and proposal development.
- Proven ability to work effectively and diplomatically with fellow staff members, as well as with students, faculty and agency contacts.
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, as well as organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Independence, initiative, and strong organizational skills.
- Multitask, prioritize and manage multiple simultaneous projects.
- Work on multiple tasks within strict deadlines.
- Strategic and analytical thinking skills with an ability to solve problems and make effective decisions.
- Professionalism, discretion, tact, and an ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Negotiate on behalf of the unit and build consensus among a large number of diverse stakeholders.
Application Documents - Resume/CV (required)
- Cover Letter (preferred)
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