Strategic Rehabilitation Research Advancement:

• Collaborate to identify areas of institutional research priorities
• Strategic Planning Support
• Advise Research Enterprise on issues related to rehabilitation research
• Manage or contribute to decisions regarding internal funding
• Provide rehabilitation research development support to include such things as formal partnerships with external entities or facilitating faculty participation
• Interact with community leaders related to rehabilitation research initiatives at VCU
• Industry collaboration and partnerships
• Liaison with funding agencies about direction of future research funding initiatives
• Coordinate/Manage the proposal submission process for rehabilitation research projects

Communication of Rehabilitation Research Opportunities:

• Raise profile of university rehabilitation strengths that add to the visibility or impact of the university with external funding sources
• Provide proposal/award information related metrics to deans/chairs/faculty
• Information & referral for grant opportunities and proposal development
• Collect and disseminate funding information to faculty and administrators
• Conduct professional development related to enhancement of rehabilitation research

Enhancement of Interdisciplinary Collaboration:

• Convene and coordinate multi-disciplinary interest groups
• Facilitate new cross-disciplinary research initiatives
• Develop and/or coordinate resources and tools to promote collaboration
• Provide guidance and expertise for building and fostering connections and teams
• Facilitate collaborations between investigators

Rehabilitation Research Proposal Development & Support

• Assist faculty in finding funding opportunities
• Liaison with funding agencies during proposal development process
• eNewsletters/Listserv announcements of funding opportunities
• Maintain a file of successful proposals
• Assist faculty to navigate through administrative structures within VCU & VAMC
• Proposal Development Support for large, center-like awards
• Proposal Development Support for individual investigator awards
• Project Management (coordinating milestones, internal deadlines, meetings, e-mail reminders, etc.)
• Grant Writing of Technical/Scientific portions of Application
• Grant Writing of Evaluation portions of Application
• Grant Writing of Resources portions of Application
• Grant Writing of Administrative portions of Application
• Grant Writing of Timeline portions of Application
• Grant Writing of Communications portions of Application
• Grant Writing of Outreach portions of Application
• Developing budgets and budget justifications for applications
• Handling Letters of Support/Biosketches/COI/Compliance
• Developing Diversity Sections for Grant Proposals
• Coordinating/Finding Collaborating institutions for a proposal
• Suggesting collaborating scientists for a proposal
• Editing proposal drafts
• Manage requests for cost sharing
• Coordinating pre-submission peer reviews of proposal drafts
• Proposal Submission Support (copying, mailing, pdf generation, etc.)
• Coordinating Core Facility information
• Assist with Just in Time or additional information requests from sponsor after proposal submission
• Assist with post-award set-up to get the project off the ground and/or communicate with collaborators post-award
• Analyze proposal reviews and provide feedback to investigators or other institutional officials