Scientific Review Administrator, Veear Projects, Bethesda, MD
Veear Projects -
Bethesda, MD,
US
Scientific Review Administrator
Date Posted: 2024-06-15
Job description
Work Details:
Minimum Education:
Additional Qualifications:
Field of Study:
Software:
Skills:
- Review and prepare written reviews of research grant applications.
- Assign applications to reviewers.
- Evaluate scientific aspects of concepts, proposals, protocols and reports for research.
- Identify the administrative and the scientific issues in the grant applications or contract proposals, including the hypotheses and rationale presented in the applications/proposals.
- Describe and list the type of science and specific technologies proposed in the application and contract proposals.
- Performs administrative review of research grant applications.
- Evaluate incoming applications for completeness and accuracy.
- Provide timely response to all inquiries from program, reviewers, and applicants and keep informed of all actions.
- Work with staff to manage the scientific peer review of grant and cooperative agreement applications, and contract proposals assigned for primary merit review.
- Identifies specific areas of expertise for peer review panel, searches databases and resources and prepares lists of potential reviewers.
- Identify and select reviewers by matching the expertise of the reviewers to the research grant application.
- Collaborate with staff to identify and coordinate the participation of reviewers for each application received and identify and coordinate the participation of reviewers for grant applications.
- Identify and select reviewers by matching the expertise of the reviewer with the specific science contained in the research grant applications and recommend potential reviewers.
- Prepare peer review rosters.
- Make initial determinations regarding the appropriate assignment of all grants.
- Make assignment decisions and resolve conflicts in assignments based on knowledge of the scientific interests of the Institute.
- Prepares preliminary drafts of summary statements.
- Review draft documents and synthesize comments and incorporate appropriate comments from reviewers into final documents.
- Cross check data and verify content from source documents.
- Assist staff in the development of summary statements for grant application reviews.
- Upload, write and edit draft summary statements.
- Validates and enters information into databases.
- Work with staff on entry of reviewer data into the Committee Management system in order to prepare peer review rosters.
Minimum Education:
- PhD
Additional Qualifications:
Field of Study:
- Community and Public Health
- Nursing
- Nutrition Sciences
- Clinical Psychology
- General Medical and Health Services
- Miscellaneous Biology
- General Social Sciences
Software:
- Microsoft Office
- Outlook
Skills:
- Human research subject protections
- Peer review process for grants
- Grants and contract mechanisms