GRANT WRITER SR #00074828

Hiring Department

Office of Sponsored Programs

Application Deadline
Open Until Filled

Full Time/Part Time
Full Time, Benefit Eligible

Salary
$52,223-$65,468 annually

Job Description

• Identifies funding opportunities specific to early-career faculty by utilizing multiple online tools and by maintaining contact with and knowledge of various agencies and organizations
• Promotes funding opportunities specific to early-career faculty by maintaining a current listing of all early-career faculty and their contact information and by distributing pertinent opportunities and recommending potential matches
• Supports early-career faculty members in analyzing complex funding solicitations by creating master lists of required content, developing preliminary outlines, tracking updates to solicitations and/or FAQs
• Supports early-career faculty members in writing responsive research proposals by assisting with project management of the proposal process and narrative development assistance
• Develops and facilitates programs enabling early-career faculty members’ research funding success (including professional development programs, mentoring programs, and formal review programs)
• Supports VCRI Office internal funding and limited submission infrastructure
• Acts as a point-of-contact resource for early-career faculty members, providing general guidance on navigating the proposal submission process

Minimum Qualifications

A Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, and at least 3 years of experience from which comparable knowledge and skills can be acquired is necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM-focused field
• Graduate certificate or coursework in proposal development or grant writing
• Experience working with faculty members in higher education
• Familiarity with graduate degree granting, STEM-focused institutions of higher education
• Bachelor’s degree in English, Technical Communications, or a related area that required significant writing and/or editing
• Experience parsing complex documents, tracking multi-faceted requirements, and working with others to enable their fulfillment (3 years)
• Experience editing and providing feedback on others’ technical content (2 years)