Research Development Strategist​/Grant Writer

The Stanford Department of Pediatrics is committed to advancing the health of infants, children, and adolescents through innovative medical care, research, education, training, and advocacy. We are the second largest department in the School of Medicine with more than $90 million in funding annually from external sponsors. The Office of Pediatric Research Development is a dedicated team of research development strategists and administrators collaborating to demystify grant writing processes and enable funding success for cutting-edge research that advances health.

The Office assists faculty and learners (instructors, postdocs, clinical fellows, etc.) in securing funding from individual research grants, large center or training grants, career development awards, and fellowships.

We are seeking a Research Development Strategist / Grant Writer (Academic Program Professional
2) to work under the general direction of the Department’s Associate Director of Team Science, faculty, and/or other management to support faculty, instructors and learners in grant writing and submission. This includes providing scientific/technical feedback, content, and expert administrative guidance for a variety of grants (e.g. NIH R21, R01, R61/33; K Awards, PCORI; clinical trials, etc.). Candidates should be a highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of effectively managing multiple priorities.

This role will develop, implement, and administer the vision, strategy, and goals to grow the Department’s research enterprise. This includes strategy development for a cohesive research development program; designing and implementing research building activities; and managing evaluations and program improvements to support research within the Department. Serve as expert advisor to faculty and staff and have a role in program/entity strategy development, long-range planning, and partnership development.

This position will be based on the Stanford campus and is a hybrid of working on-site and working from home, subject to operational needed.

• Provide individualized grant writing advice, coaching, and assistance to faculty, especially early-career faculty, and occasionally to postdocs, clinical fellows, and instructors
• Manage the entire proposal process, including developing strategic plans, drafting specific sections, editing, and evaluating drafts, and coordinating proposal submission
• Prepare and edit text, figures, and tables to increase impact and clarity
• Write and/or edit complex content for large, complex proposals, training grants, research grants, peer-reviewed publications
• Proactively identifying a diverse portfolio of funding sources
• Identify, recommend, and implement research capacity-building activities, especially for faculty, postdocs/clinical fellows, instructors that may include grant review processes, seed grant programs, grant writing curricula, workshops, seminars, multi-week bootcamps, new resources, etc.
• Develop and manage programs to improve engagement of current faculty in mentoring junior faculty and trainees, especially in research and writing grants
• Teach and/or assist in teaching and administering programs to support grant writers, especially faculty, postdocs, clinical fellows, and instructors
• Recommend, design, and manage new policies to streamline research development and research administration processes within the Department and more broadly at Stanford
• Collaborate with departmental stakeholders and other research development strategists at Stanford to advance research development goals
• Source, collect, analyze data to track proposal success rates such as tracking proposals submitted and funded annually to external funding agencies
• Analyze data, create reports, review trends, and…