RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE SR, OCRD
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- Duke University
- Location
- Research Administration
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- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Duke University:
Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.
Occupational SummaryThe Office of Campus Research Development (OCRD), part of the Office of Research at Duke University, serves the Campus faculty community to conceptualize, develop, and write proposals to federal agencies to seek extramural funding. OCRD works across all Campus disciplines, schools, and departments, with the overarching mission to make the proposals as compelling and competitive as possible as well as making the proposal development process as straightforward and streamlined as possible. To perform this overarching mission, OCRD works closely with the Office of Research Support (ORS), research development liaisons, and grants administrators across the Campus units in proposal development coordination.
The Senior Research Development Associate (Sr. RDA) will report to the OCRD Director and work to support proposal development in all Campus units, with a particular focus on projects from Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering.
Work Performed
- Oversee and support the development of multiple, simultaneous, individual, and complex funding proposals through effective interactions with all involved parties and by providing proposal management, proposal editing, and/or writing integration service, and other requested proposal development support based on OCRD’s menu of services. (70%)Review agency program goals and guidelines to ensure all proposals align with both agency and institutional goals and capabilities.Work with individuals at all levels in the proposal development process (e.g., PIs and their teams, members within ORCD, Duke leadership, departmental grant managers, ORS representatives) to ensure successful integration of all grant application components and full compliance with all funding program and sponsor requirements.
- In conjunction with the Director, work with other campus leaders to identify opportunities to strengthen faculty proposals and work collaboratively to implement solutions, with a particular focus on School/College or Departmental inquiries. (25%)In conjunction with the Director, represent Duke to external entities (including as part of Oak Ridge Associated Universities). (5%)
- Education/Training and Experience
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in STEM, social sciences, biomedical, or related field. A doctoral degree is highly desirable with demonstration of an understanding and familiarity with a broad range of science or technical subject matter. Minimum of five years of experience working with faculty and federally-funded extramural funding in an academic setting, with such experience to include at least 2 years of significant editing and advising responsibilities regarding scientific and administrative components.Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Essential Skills
- Regarding identifying funding opportunities:Provide guidance in identifying appropriate extramural research funding opportunities.Understand, explain, and clarify various sponsors’ proposal requirements and review processes.
In summary, the ideal candidate has outstanding technical writing and editing skills, excellent abilities to organize/shape proposal narrative from early to final stages of proposal development, great attention to detail, knowledge of various funding agency requirements and proposal submission procedures, a positive attitude and an ability to work well as a team within OCRD and with faculty and their teams across a variety of disciplines, and the ability to multi-task and work effectively under deadline pressure.
With your application, please include a cover letter that:- Highlights the experience you have working with university faculty and various sponsors on individual or complex federal funding proposals.
- Indicates why you want to work in Duke’s OCRD. In other words, how do you see your values and approach to research development aligning with those of OCRD.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's degree in STEM, social science, biomedical, or related field. A doctoral degree is highly desirable with demonstration of an understanding and familiarity with a broad range of science or technical subject matter.
Experience
Minimum of five years of experience working with relevant extramural grants and contracts in an academic setting, with such experience to include at least 2 years of significant editing and advising responsibilities regarding scientific and administrative components. Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Organization
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
Mission Statement
"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'
“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.
“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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