The Office of Research, which provides resources to ensure a supportive and competitive environment for research and scholarship at Boston University, seeks a Director of Research Development.  The Director leads a team of research professionals to provide comprehensive proposal development services, and to respond to relevant funding opportunities.  This position will provide strategic direction to a staff facilitating full-service proposal development, at the central University level, for complex, multi-million dollar interdisciplinary and/or training grant proposals submitted by faculty teams across schools/colleges and research centers and institutes. 

Research development services include disseminating competitive intelligence on funding programs, facilitating PI team building and ideation, writing and editing proposal sections, identifying, and securing external resources and leading external or red team review of proposals. The Director will lead and guide PIs through their submissions to a variety of federal agencies including; NSF, DoD, DoE, DARPA, NIH, ARPA-H. The Director is also responsible for responding to relevant funding opportunities, supporting the federal and foundation relations teams overseeing the limited submission processes and community funding opportunities. The Director will organize strategic workshops and events that enable faculty and researchers to submit high-quality, competitive proposals in alignment with best practices.