GRANT DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST (PRE-AWARDS)
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About The Position
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is seeking a GRANT DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST to serve as a key member of Engineering's research support team, responsible for the proposal submission process for departments and their faculty within the School of Engineering. Cultivate relationships with Engineering faculty and staff and encourage collaboration with other UAB faculty, UAB Office of Sponsored Programs, external institutions, foundations, and other collaborators. Manage pre-award research activities for a group of departments within the School of Engineering. Partner directly with faculty to guide them through the pre-award phase. Collaborate with Engineering's Research Proposal and Development Coordinator, to provide investigators with multifaceted layers of support. Provide guidance, ensuring adherence to all research sponsor guidelines, policies, and regulations, as well as internal UAB and Engineering policies and procedures. Review funding opportunity announcements. Identify sponsor deadline, establish timeline, required documents, and create detailed project management plan tailored to specific investigator, to ensure a successful research proposal submission. Facilitate the exchange of information and implement workplan for submission. Collaborate with Office of Sponsored Programs on any related items, such as indirect cost rate, letter of intent, data sharing agreements, confidentiality agreements. Monitor the School's pre-award activities and their development plans to ensure adequate availability of resources for superior proposal development and pre-award activities and services.
