Senior Grant Writer – Cohen Lab
Cedars-Sinai
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $41 - $70 per hour
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Discuss new grant ideas/specific aims with Principal Investigator(s) and accordingly write drafts of specific aims' page, research plan (significance, innovation, and experimental design), response to reviewer critiques, reference section, and other sections as needed for grant applications or proposals.
- Facilitates writing, editing, and preparation of high quality written scientific documents for grant applications, publications, scientific manuscripts for peer review, white papers, protocols, and other scientific or administrative reports. This includes writing, editing, proofreading, and formatting documents.
- Provides grant/proposal editing and writing services to support the Principal Investigator(s) in developing high quality and highly competitive grant proposals for submission to federal, state, non-profit, internal, and/or private funding agencies and organizations.
- Provides full life cycle editing and writing support for grant submissions, including managing timelines and project milestones, collecting figures, illustrations, and information from various sources, editing documents and coordinating with multiple collaborators involved in the submission.
- Works closely with the department research administration office, clinical research office, Sponsored Research and Funds Administration Office, and other Cedars-Sinai compliance offices to compile and submit grant applications in a timely manner.
- Working closely with the Principal Investigator (PI), takes a lead role in project management and preparation of grant proposals. Support includes: advice on grantsmanship, editorial support and standardized language for administrative sections, as well as managing the project management and scientific writing process, including team-building and coordination; establishing work plan, timeline and deliverables; and draft preparation, review and revision.
- Works with Principal Investigator(s) to develop, present, and bring to final submission high quality, large, multi-disciplinary, and multi-collaborative grant proposals.
- Maintains up-to-date grants calendar and tracks deadlines for reports, letters of intent, and grant submissions.
- Prepares progress reports and updates for federal, state, non-profit, and/or private funding agencies and organizations.
- Prepares protocols (including amendments and informed consents), reports, and manuscripts for publication.
- Edits and proofreads abstracts, posters, and presentations for style and content.
- Searches the internet and other sources to match federal and non-federal funding opportunities to the Principal Investigator’s research and interprets the funding opportunities for the Principal Investigator(s).
- Follows established Cedars-Sinai and department policies, rules and regulations and ensures compliance with all federal, state, and local agencies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, Biomedical Engineering or related field is required.
- 7 years of extensive scientific/medical writing experience, including research proposal development and scientific manuscript preparation.
- 5 years of experience working in an academic medical center and managing biomedical sciences grant applications and formats.
- Excellent analytical skills and critical understanding of biomedical sciences and related literature.
- Knowledge of grant application criteria and various funding mechanisms and sources.
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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