Research Development Specialist II, Vice President For Research (Hybrid) in Galveston, Texas at University of Texas Medical Branch

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Master's degree.

Experience: Two years of experience developing or writing proposals to/for federal, state, or local agencies.

An equivalent combination of education and experience relevant to the role may be considered for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM), Social Science, or Public Health.

• Direct pre-award proposal development and submission experience

• Significant NIH and/or other federal sponsor experience

• Experience interpreting funding opportunities and sponsor requirements

• Experience working directly with faculty/PIs throughout proposal development

• Experience developing budgets and preparing application components

• Experience with electronic submission and institutional routing systems

• Prior NIH or other federal agency grants experience, if available

JOB SUMMARY

To provide grant proposal development expertise to faculty members and research personnel to enable competitive individual and team extramural research funding and facilitate research excellence in collaboration with the Office of Strategic Research Development. May support faculty in a single department, or across multiple departments and/or center(s) in all phases of the research proposal process.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Provides strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building proposal writing/editing expertise to faculty members and researchers.
• Provides analytical, technical, and professional support in writing/editing funding proposals, including development of hypotheses, aims, and objectives, grantsmanship and limited scientific review.
• Proposal development duties include obtaining competitive intelligence on funding programs; facilitating PI team building; substantive editing of proposal sections. Work cooperatively with grant/contract specialists, and other Research Development team members in pursuit of these objectives.
• Identifies and maintains research alliances with potential collaborative partners and funding agencies to formulate and implement specific research projects.
• Monitors funding agency changes and priorities and identifies funding opportunities suited for faculty member(s) based upon their research expertise.
• Serves as proposal development expert to staff and researchers.

Marginal or Periodic Functions:

• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure.
• Performs related duties as required.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, particularly the capacity for the integration and synthesis of written text that represents a melding of multidisciplinary research.
• Demonstrated capacity for independent decision making, research development, and working on multidisciplinary teams on project and proposal development.
• Requires ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with others.
• Advanced use of InfoEd, Microsoft Word, Excel and Reference Managers.
• Specialized software programs may be required.

SUPERVISION

Received: This position will report to a department Vice-Chair for research, Chair, Center or Institute Director, or to a research development or research administrator with the title such as Operations Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director, Director, or Executive Director.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT/EQUIPMENT

Standard office environment. May require travel to conferences or meetings with funding agencies or professional development. Standard office equipment.

*Official Regulatory Statement for Healthcare jobs Job Descriptions: May be exposed to such occupational hazards as communicable diseases, blood borne pathogens, ionizing & non-ionizing radiation, hazardous medications and disoriented or combative patients or others.

SALARY

Commensurate with experience.