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
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