DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT - DUKE SCHOOL OF NURSING
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Duke University School of Nursing
Job Description
HR Title: DIR, RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
Working Title: DIR, RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
Job Code: 1058
FLSA: E
Job Level: 94
Job Family: JF 28
General Purpose
Develop, plan, and implement activities responsible for assisting Duke School of Nursing (DUSON) research faculty members and trainees with scientific development of research grant proposals, including school-wide center grant proposals. Facilitate the grantsmanship process from idea generation to successful submission. Supports submissions that reflect the highest quality science that lead to award funding.
Supervisor
This position reports to the Associate Dean for Research (ADR).
Essential Duties
- Identify relevant research funding opportunities and potential collaborations with funding agencies, institutions, universities, and industries. Work collaboratively with the grants administration core to inform faculty of innovative funding opportunities. Assess the suitability and potential for success for new research opportunities and provide information to the Center for Nursing Research (CNR) leadership.
- Assist the ADR in building school-wide communities of researchers through the planning and facilitation of research project collaborations. Assist in the building of research teams that are well-prepared to plan, design, and submit large center grant proposals (E.g., P20, P30, T32). Assist in the formation and facilitation of project teams in areas of strategic interest.
- Facilitate faculty mentoring program including grant writing initiatives and senior faculty mentoring assignments. Coordinate assignments of consulting professors who serve as external research mentors by making assignments, assuring reviews are completed and integrated into research proposals. Coordinate research MOCK reviews for faculty; identify internal and external expert reviews, make assignments, gather reviews, and reside over meetings.
- Facilitate strategic direction meetings (Specific Aims and Think Tank sessions) with faculty on new research project initiatives. Determine appropriate resources required to pursue new initiatives. Work with faculty to ensure successful competitive site visits for new initiatives.
- Perform substantive editing of grant proposals and attachments, working in close collaboration with faculty as well as trainees to ensure the submission of proposals of the highest quality.
- Identify and support partnerships with academic and community organizations internal and external to Duke University for funding opportunities. Provide faculty with proposal content and templates for complex projects.
- Coordinate and participate in the CNR internal pilot award funding initiatives. Draft Request for Proposals, identify and invite application reviewers, and participate in the proposal review process.
- Assist with research event and conference planning and provide training in proposal development.
- Support CNR initiatives, including participating in working groups and investigating cost and feasibility of new projects.
- Maintain working knowledge of research pre-award requirements and ensure that proposal budgets align with scientific goals.
- The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's degree in English, communications, science, business or a related field. Advanced degree is highly desirable with demonstration of an understanding and familiarity with a broad range of science or technical subject matter.
Experience
Seven years of experience working with extramural grants and contracts. OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE.
Skills:
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.
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
History
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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