Job Description:

• Provides guidance to faculty and other personnel during the scientific brainstorming, planning, and decision-making for the application that requires significant knowledge of active and emerging federal research programs, scientific trends, and science team management.

• Uses scientific expertise to critically edit technical sections of proposals and draft proposal components such as introductions, summaries, and figures or schemes. Prepares and edits supporting technical documents of proposals for numerous federal agencies including NSF, NIH, DOE, and DOD.

• Independently provides comprehensive proposal development support through project management of setting timelines, assigning responsibilities, coordinating writing production, and ensuring efficient document sharing and quality control. Liaises with research administrators and URA for proposal internal review and submission.

• Develops and maintains detailed knowledge of faculty research interests and strengths across Divisions with a concentration on identifying potential for interdisciplinary research.

• Works with multi-investigator faculty teams to develop funding and research growth strategies by analyzing funding opportunities and/or funding agency priorities to identify and facilitate large proposals.

• Develops content and resources for ORD website and intranet, facilitates dissemination of resources, and maintains knowledge of the competitive research funding landscape to promote effective proposal development.

• Manages central-level scientific review for federal limited submission opportunities and provides back-up support for managing the administrative processes. Provides scientific guidance when coordinating with the Foundation and Corporate Relations office on internal applications for research funding from non-federal sources.

• Leads coordination of the ORD team science activities in support of the Big Ideas Generator (BIG) seed funding program, including program reporting and metrics.

• Ensures quality service and communication to faculty and research teams, develops best practices, maintains compliant standardized templates, and communicates policies/requirements for pre- and post-award issues from all federal funding agencies.

• 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.

• Prepares summaries of grants and effort allocations for Principal Investigators, meets with them, and responds to their questions. Coordinates with other departments/units/divisions regarding multi-investigator grants. Serves as department contact for annual audits and agency site visits.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to work across groups, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and intra and interinstitutional partnerships.

• Demonstrated experience working in complex environments where collaboration and influence management are critical to success.

• Proven ability to work effectively and diplomatically with fellow staff members and students, as well as faculty and agency contacts.

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, 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 (required)

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