"Director of Research Development"

Stanford Medicine is leading the biomedical revolution in precision health. We are transforming health care from the after-the-fact diagnosis to prediction and prevention, and from one-size-fits-all medicine to personalized care that empowers people to lead healthy lives. We are leveraging the art and science of medicine to predict and prevent disease before it strikes and cure it decisively if it does.

To achieve our Precision Health vision, we are integrating, building, and leveraging our strengths in fundamental research, the new field of biomedical data science, and nine transformative biomedical platforms. As a learning health system, we will apply these advances in our hospitals and health care delivery systems within Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health.

Fulfilling our promise to humanity requires the engagement of a diverse, creative, and collaborative team of professionals who work together to advance our research, education, and patient care mission. We strive to create a culture of inclusion and belonging to ensure all employees have the meaningful employment experience that is necessary to do their best work. We are looking for leaders who can contribute to making excellence inclusive.

With a primary reporting relationship to the Associate Director of Finance and Administration and secondary to Director of the Big Ideas in Medicine initiative, the Director of Research Development position serves as a key business leader for the Department and senior advisor to the Chair and faculty leadership. The Department of Medicine (DOM) is one of 31 departments within the School of Medicine, and has a total annual budget of approximately $600 million, 800 faculty and more than 1,000 staff, post-doctorates and residents organized into 18 divisions (14 clinical, 3 research, and 1 administrative).

The Stanford DOM is seeking a Director of Research Development to manage and grow its research enterprise. The Director will implement DOM’s strategic plan for research development working collaboratively with the Chair, Vice Chair of Research, Vice Chair of Strategy and Innovation, and Vice Chair and Director of Finance and Administration. This includes establishing the vision and priorities for a cohesive research development program; designing and implementing research building activities; and leading evaluations and program improvements to support research within the Department. The Director will devise strategies to advise faculty, especially senior faculty writing large program project grants, junior faculty writing 1st or 2nd NIH R01s, and postdocs/clinical fellows writing career development awards. The Director will lead and oversee a team of grant writers and research administrators to improve the quality and quantity of proposals submitted by the DOM to federal and non-federal sponsors.

The DOM has a unique and collaborative culture, while remaining focused on its core missions of research, education, clinical care, and community. Because of the size of the DOM in the school and university, the Director must be a sophisticated strategic leader and possess outstanding communication, listening and interpersonal skills.

This is a hybrid eligible position.

Duties include:

• Provide leadership direction to assigned staff in the program area and oversee staff with program responsibility including grant writers/research development professionals and grant specialist/research administrator(s).
• Design, develop, and oversee implementation of DOM’s research building activities, e.g., internal grant review processes, seed grant programs, grantsmanship curricula, workshops, seminars, relevant executive-level research committee(s), etc.
• Devise and implement vision, strategy, goals, and resource development to improve the quality and quantity of proposals submitted to federal and non-federal sponsors.
• Lead and oversee analysis, reporting, and program improvements to shape the research development program.
• Define the overall activities of research/teaching program(s), allocate appropriate staffing and other resources to advise trainees and faculty writing grants. Develop and direct related policies to streamline research development and research administrative processes. Coordinate grant proposal submissions.
• Develop and implement programming that cultivates the next generation of exceptional physician-scientists and faculty mentors.
• Provide strategic and financial advice to faculty director and/or senior management.
• Develop, maintain, and control the financial strategy and long-range financial planning for DOM’s research development enterprise. Measure impact of investment in research building activities in improving quality and quantity of the DOM’s proposals.
• Serve as the principal advocate with foundations, funding, and gift sources. Advocate research development priorities for DOM to broader university, external communities, sponsors, and other stakeholders.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demonstrated expertise with building programs to advance research development strategies and proposal success rates within a leading academic institution.
• Highly organized, analytical, proactive, and deadline oriented.
• Communicates effectively (oral and written).
• Ability to oversee and direct staff and build effective teams.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with a variety of persons.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED):

• Advanced degree or combination of relevant education, training, and/or experience.
• Typically, five or more years of relevant experience in area of specialization and five or more years relevant experience managing staff.
• Experience managing a budget and developing financial plans, program partnerships and funding sources.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (REQUIRED):

• Ability to develop program partnerships and funding sources.
• Advanced oral, written, and analytical skills, exhibiting fluency in area of specialization.
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Ability to manage budgets and develop financial plans.

The expected pay range for this position is $164,402 to $211,171 per annum.