Research Development Spec II, Vice President for Research

Job Summary

To provide grant proposal development expertise to faculty members and research personnel to enable competitive individual and team extramural research funding and facilitate research excellence in collaboration with the Office of Strategic Research Development.

Job Duties

• Provides strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building proposal writing/editing expertise to faculty members and researchers.
• Provides analytical, technical, and professional support in writing/editing funding proposals, including development of hypotheses, aims, and objectives, grantsmanship and limited scientific review.
• Proposal development duties include obtaining competitive intelligence on funding programs; facilitating PI team building; substantive editing of proposal sections.
• Works cooperatively with grant/contract specialists, and other Research Development team members in pursuit of these objectives.
• Identifies and maintains research alliances with potential collaborative partners and funding agencies to formulate and implement specific research projects.
• Maintains awareness of funding agency changes and priorities and identifies funding opportunities suited for faculty member(s) based upon their research expertise.
• Serves as proposal development expert to staff and researchers.

Marginal or Periodic Functions

• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure.
• Performs related duties as required.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, particularly the capacity for the integration and synthesis of written text that represents a melding of multidisciplinary research.
• Demonstrated capacity for independent decision making, research development, and working on multidisciplinary teams on project and proposal development.
• Requires ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with others.
• Advanced use of InfoEd, Microsoft Word, Excel and Reference Managers.

Supervision Received

This position will report to a department Vice-Chair for research, Chair, Center or Institute Director, or to a research development or research administrator with the title such as Operations Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director, Director, or Executive Director.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT/EQUIPMENT

Standard office environment. May require travel to conferences or meetings with funding agencies or professional development. Standard office equipment.

Official Regulatory Statement for Healthcare jobs' Job Descriptions

May be exposed to such occupational hazards as communicable diseases, blood borne pathogens, ionizing & non-ionizing radiation, hazardous medications and disoriented or combative patients or others.

Salary Range

Commensurate with experience.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Primary Location

United States-Texas-Galveston

Work Locations

0342 - Research Building 6

Job Research Academic & Clinical

Regular Employee Status

Team Lead / Technical

Day Shift

Job Posting

Jun 17, 2026, 6:14:36 PM