Director, Grant Development Services

1 week ago


Ottawa, Ontario, Canada University of Ottawa Full time
Job Title: Director, Grant Development Services

Reporting to the Assistant Vice-President, Research Services, the Director, Grant Development Services is a critical leader within the OVPRI portfolio for the development, delivery, and ongoing review of strategies and frameworks to enable increased research funding success across Tri-Agency and other grant funding agencies.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement comprehensive research strategies to increase success in multi-million-dollar research grant opportunities.
  • Direct the university's strategic response to large-scale multidisciplinary strategic funding opportunities from Tri-Agency and other agencies.
  • Cultivate relationships with external partners, funding agencies, and industry collaborators for large multi-million-dollar research grants and programs.
  • Represent uOttawa views and researcher needs in interactions with other organizations, including funders.
  • Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, including faculties, researchers, program managers, and finance teams, to gather necessary information and ensure a comprehensive approach to proposal development.
Requirements:
  • Doctorate degree in a relevant field or a combination of equivalent training and experience, involving extensive research training in a health research, science and engineering, or social sciences and humanities field.
  • A minimum of 10 years of progressively senior positions within a research-intensive university or similar complex research environment, including significant experience in leading teams and staff supervision.
  • Expert technical scientific and scholarly knowledge and experience in health research, science and engineering, or social sciences and humanities field.
  • Extensive knowledge of Canada's research funding landscape and of current and future trends in research funding strategy and compliance.
  • Significant experience and knowledge of ensuring and demonstrating research impact, including knowledge transfer, science policy, economic benefits of research, social innovation, private sector innovation, and commercialization.
About the University of Ottawa:

The University of Ottawa is a dynamic community of over 50,000 students, faculty, and staff, who live, work, and study in both French and English. Our campus is a crossroad of cultures and ideas, where bold minds come together to inspire game-changing ideas.

We believe in the power of representation and that increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff supports this objective. Our goal is to provide students with the best possible learning experience, in an environment that reflects the diversity of its people, their ideas, and their identities.

We are one of Canada's top 10 research universities, and our professors and researchers explore new approaches to today's challenges. One of a handful of Canadian universities ranked among the top 200 in the world, we attract exceptional thinkers and welcome diverse perspectives from across the globe.

Our employees come together for the shared purpose of constant improvement, personal development, service excellence, teamwork, and a passion for learning with a desire to make uOttawa and the world a better place.



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