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About the Position

The Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy (CSP) is looking for a talented biomedical, clinical scientist, or public health professional to lead project management, and implementation efforts in Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder (BD2) team.We are looking for an energetic, detail-oriented early career professional with excellent organization and research skills to join our team as a senior associate. The senior associate will primarily focus on supporting the BD2Initiatives. This includes management of the community of funded investigators across the initiative, focused meetings with research teams to ensure contractual milestones are met, and leading and supporting development of relevant deliverables that include reports.

About BD2

BD2is a funder collaborative focused on driving toward new discoveries through collaborative, open science focused on bipolar disorder. Over the upcoming 5 years, we will manage more than $150 million in scientific research focused on team science, building and maintaining a learning health network, longitudinal research, genetic research, and omics technologies.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate research activities across funded sites, which could include facilitating team meetings, evaluating research milestone completion, and troubleshooting delays or setbacks.
• Manage grant review processes, including developing requests for proposals, managing a grant portal, communicating with applicants, recruiting reviewers, and developing necessary materials throughout the process.
• Build and sustain a collaborative, open, and supportive community of funded researchers and clinicians through direct communication and maintenance of the virtual community platform
• Represent BD2and the Milken Institute within the broader biomedical and clinical research community throughout the due diligence process and at various industry-specific events;
• Contribute to communications efforts to build awareness of key funding opportunities, philanthropy resources, and overall opportunities to engage with CSP amongst the philanthropic and nonprofit communities
• Support activities related to scientific steering committee management, including coordinating meetings, preparing materials, note-taking, conducting specific analysis as requested, etc.;
• Develop executive-level literature to communicate findings to a funders board, researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience, advisors, etc.

Requirements

• High intellectual capacity that can be and has been applied to learning new areas of science and technology and related fields;
• Personal attitude that includes being outgoing, entrepreneurial, action-oriented, flexible, with a willingness to adapt to changing situations and have a good sense of humor; and
• Ph.D. in a field related to biomedicine, clinical practice or public health with at least 2 years of experience beyond academic studies, especially in grant program management or multi-stakeholder community management.
• Demonstrated effective knowledge of project management or formal certification. Experience with all aspects of project management in a scientific or health-related field.
• Scientific writing experience for both technical and lay audiences;
• Facility in navigating scientific literature, scientific conferences, and other biomedical and clinical research resources;
• Familiarity with scientific grant evaluation and peer review processes;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of the clinical and research funding landscape around the world, especially the role of philanthropy;

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