Research Development Activities

Strategic Research Advancement

  • Collaborate to identify areas of institutional research priorities
  • Strategic Planning Support (information to leadership about opportunities/strengths/weaknesses)
  • Advise VP/VC for Research on issues related to research
  • Serve as VP's/VC's for Research representative to university community and external visitors
  • Manage or contribute to decisions regarding internal funding
  • Provide research areas development support to include such things as formal partnerships with external entities or facilitating faculty participation
  • Interactions with political leaders related to research initiatives at your institution
  • Industry collaboration and partnerships
  • Liaison with funding agencies about direction of future research funding initiatives
  • Bringing Program Managers to Campus or taking/introducing Faculty to Program Managers
  • Assisting with Sponsor Site visits
  • Coordinating/Managing the limited submission process
  • Other strategic research advancement

Communication of Research and Research Opportunities

  • Manage marketing of research, e.g. annual reports, research magazine, web page development/coordination, identifying institutional priorities
  • Raise profile of university strengths that add to visibility or impact of university with external funding sources
  • Providing proposal/award information related metrics to deans/chairs/faculty
  • Website support e.g. grant opportunities and proposal development
  • Collect and disseminate funding information to faculty and administrators
  • Conducting Grant Writing Workshops on your campus or regionally
  • Other Communication of Research and Research Opportunities

Enhancement of Collaboration/Team Science

  • Convene and coordinate multi-disciplinary interest groups
  • Catalyze new cross-disciplinary research initiatives
  • Sponsoring catalytic research events, e.g. research mini-symposia
  • Develop and/or coordinate resources and tools to promote collaboration
  • Provide guidance and expertise for building and fostering connections and teams
  • Maintain faculty expertise database and other collaboration web tools
  • Facilitating collaborations between investigators at your own institution
  • Facilitating collaborations between investigators at other institutions

Proposal Development & Support Functions

  • Assisting faculty to find funding opportunities
  • Liaison with funding agencies during proposal development process
  • Newsletters/Listserv announcements of funding opportunities
  • Maintain a file of successful proposals
  • Assisting faculty navigate through administrative structures within your institution
  • Proposal Development Support for large, center-like awards
  • Proposal Development Support for individual investigator awards
  • Project Management (coordinating milestones, internal deadlines, meetings, e-mail reminders, etc.)
  • Grant Writing of Technical/Scientific portions of Application
  • Grant Writing of Evaluation portions of Application
  • Grant Writing of Resources portions of Application
  • Grant Writing of Administrative portions of Application
  • Grant Writing of Timeline portions of Application
  • Grant Writing of Communications portions of Application
  • Grant Writing of Outreach portions of Application
  • Developing Budgets and budget justifications for application
  • Handling Letters of Support/Biosketches/COI/Compliance/
  • Developing Diversity Sections for Grant Proposals
  • Developing RCR education Sections for Grant Proposals
  • Coordinating/Finding Collaborating institutions for a proposal
  • Suggesting collaborating scientists for a proposal
  • Editing proposal drafts
  • Manage requests for cost sharing
  • Coordinating pre-submission peer reviews of proposal drafts
  • Manage "Red Team" reviewers or external review process
  • Proposal Submission Support (copying, mailing, pdf generation, etc.)
  • Coordinating Core Facility information
  • Assist with Just in Time or additional information requests from sponsor after proposal submission
  • Assist with post-award set-up of project to get it off the ground and/or communicate with collaborators post-award.
  • Analyze proposal reviews and provide feedback to investigators or other institutional officials