Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM), Social Science,

or Public Health. Experience: Five years’ experience developing or writing proposals to/for federal, state, or local agencies.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS OR CERTIFICATIONS

Required:

• N/A

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD, MD, or equivalent and five years’ demonstrated success in the field and Grant experience

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Research Development Specialist will be responsible for providing professional development

and proposal coordination for faculty researchers and for providing strategies to develop competitive

proposals for biomedical and life science research funding from federal agencies, specifically those under

Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Provides faculty and professional development by participating in seminars and other training

programs as needed for UTMB researchers.

• Develops and updates templates, tools and guidance documents for use by researchers and other

research development staff.

• Leads and coordinates strategic review of faculty driven proposals.

• Leads and coordinates large multi-PI, programmatic grants, center grants or other specialty

grants.

• Provides mentoring to early-stage investigators on grant best practices and strategy for long-term

funding.

• Provides strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building proposal writing expertise to faculty

members and researchers.

• Provides analytical, technical, and professional support in writing 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.

• Knowledge of grant application processes for NIH.

• Requires ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with others.

SUPERVISION

Received: This position Reports directly to a department Vice-Chair for Research, Chair, Center Director,

Institute Director, or a suitable research development or research administration title such as Operations

Manager, Associate Director, Director, or Executive Director.

Given: Directly reporting to this position includes Research Development Officer, Research Development

Strategist, or research administration titles such as pre-award analysist.

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 Range:  Actual salary commensurate with experience or range if discussed and approved by hiring authority.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Compensation