Research Development Specialist II, Brain Health Institute Experience developing or writing proposals

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Minimum Qualifications:
Education: Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM), Social Science, 
or Public Health. Experience: Two years of experience developing or writing proposals to/for federal, state, or local 
agencies. May substitute a terminal degree for required experience on a one-for-one basis.

Preferred Qualifications:
• N/A

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS OR CERTIFICATIONS
Required:
• N/A

Preferred: 
• N/A

JOB DESCRIPTION
To provide grant proposal development expertise to faculty members and research personnel to enable 
competitive individual and team extramural research funding and facilitate research excellence in 
collaboration with the Office of Strategic Research Development. May support faculty in a single 
department, or across multiple departments and/or center(s) in all phases of the research proposal 
process.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
• 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. 
• Requires ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with others.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Reference Managers 
• Specialized software programs may be required.

SUPERVISION
Received: This position will report to a department Vice-Chair for research, Chair, Center or Institute 
Director, or to a research development or research administrator with the title such as Operations 
Manager, Associate Director, Director, or Executive Director.
Given: Reporting directly to this position include Research Development Strategist.

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. Salary range 90K.