PROGRAM DIRECTOR III

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM), is seeking a Program Director III.

A major goal of the Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health (MHIGH) is to promote scholarship, research, and innovation for shared local and global priorities. The institute is committed to expanding UAB's collaborative biomedical research and innovation portfolios, enhancing the reciprocal exchange of knowledge and solutions, and creating opportunities to grow collaborations across missions with global partners. MHIGH is dedicated to increasing overall international grant and contract funding (NIH, DOD, CDC, non-profit, industry, etc.) at UAB and the Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM), while enhancing financial stewardship. This position will work under the direction of the MHIGH Director and Associate Directors to promote growth of the HSOM global grant portfolio and will collaborate with other UAB global health entities. This person will promote new international grants and contracts, collaborate with pre-award teams, connect faculty at UAB with international partners and vice-versa, and serve as a facilitator for faculty in the promotion of grant scientific success. This person may develop their own global health research program. Report to MHIGH Administrative Director.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

1. Strategic Planning around International Grant Activity and Collaborations

2. Identify research priorities and faculty expertise and interests

3. Scout and promote diverse funding opportunities from various sectors and outside of U.S.

4. Provide support to match appropriate international/global grants with faculty and trainees and to match faculty with global collaborators, particularly in key collaborating countries

5. Facilitate assembling of teams to pursue grant applications

6. Monitor and report international grant activity within the HSOM Grant Writing

7. Engage in grant writing and provide grant editing support, including review of language and structure for quality control

8. Secure contracted grant-writing support, if needed, to ensure excellence

9. Support faculty and trainees in the submission of competitive grant applications

10. Coordinate with the UAB CCTS and global health faculty to conduct mock reviews of grants Administrative

11. Monitor submissions and support global health faculty to secure grant funding

12. Serve as a liaison to pre-award teams, including coordinating administrative support needed to a) secure essential documents, such as biosketches and subcontracts, in a timely fashion; and b) to tailor and update ancillary grant sections, such as Facilities and Other Resources, research tables, network tables and contracts/agreements

13. Manage pilot grant program of the institute, including requests for applications, advertising, review/award and progress reporting

14. Coordinate meeting planning and hosting via Zoom, meeting minutes, formal reports, and presentations as requested

15. Perform other tasks as delegated by the MHIGH Director and Associate Directors

16. Perform other duties as assigned

Salary Range\: $73,945 - $120,165