Director, Research Development and Funding

2 months ago

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada University of Ottawa Full time

Job Summary:

The University of Ottawa is seeking a highly experienced and skilled Director, Grant Development Services to lead the development and delivery of strategies and frameworks to enable increased research funding success across Tri-Agency and other grant funding agencies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Research Strategy: Collaborate with senior leadership to develop a comprehensive strategy and implement programs to increase success in multi-million-dollar research grant opportunities that leverage the University's priorities and unique research strengths.
  • Research Development: Direct the university's strategic response to large-scale multidisciplinary strategic funding opportunities from Tri-Agency and other agencies, leveraging expert scientific and scholarly knowledge and experience with research environments, trends, networks, impact, and policy to develop successful multi-million-dollar proposals.
  • Communication and Outreach: Develop strategies for effectively communicating strategic research funding opportunities, developmental support available, and administrative processes, and establish processes for internal support and early targeting of researchers and outreach to advise on eligibility criteria, deadlines, and other important details.
  • Human Resources and Standardization of Customer Service: Direct a team in a complex and fast-paced environment to achieve unit objectives, ensuring appropriate staff hiring, onboarding, performance evaluation, sustainability, and succession planning, and fostering an environment of cross-training, continuous learning, and team collaboration.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivate relationships with external partners, funding agencies, and industry collaborators for large multi-million-dollar research grants and programs, representing uOttawa views and researcher needs in interactions with other organizations, including funders, and contributing to local, national, and international networks to advance research.

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, with extensive experience with all aspects of the undertaking of research, including publications, presentations, grant writing, and training programs.
  • Extensive knowledge of Canada's research funding landscape and of current and future trends in research funding strategy and compliance, with expert knowledge of research environments in Ottawa and Canada, including knowledge of and partnership building with key stakeholders, researchers, networks, and multi-sector partners.
  • 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.
  • Extensive knowledge of university research administration processes, the life-cycle of research grants and awards, and working in a complex de-centralized university environment.
  • Substantial knowledge and experience in the development of business plans, planning documents, and advising senior leadership.
  • Substantial experience in liaising and maintaining relationships with external funding sponsors.
  • Ability to take a broad, long-range approach to problem-solving and decision-making that involves objective analysis, thinking ahead, and planning.
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with researchers, administrators, faculties, staff, students, and administrators from other institutions and sponsors.
  • Excellent communication skills, including writing, reviewing, and editing in both official languages.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills, tact, diplomacy, and judgment.
  • Strong project and time management, attention to detail, problem-solving, risk assessing, and conflict resolution skills.
  • Demonstrated experience in using computer systems and software, such as Windows, PowerPoint, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, financial systems, e-mail, and internet.

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