Summary
Visby Medical is an ambitious, well-funded, and fast-paced early stage biotech startup. Driven by a belief that disease diagnosis should be quick, accurate, and accessible to all, Visby is developing a novel diagnostic device platform that aims to redefine the way an infectious disease is tested and treated.
We are developing a tenacious team with deep industry expertise of researchers, biologists, designers, and engineers that is back-stopped by world class operations and administrative resources. If you enjoy tackling challenging problems, are passionate about your work product, and want to join a collaborative ownership team that is aiming to leave a lasting positive legacy in the healthcare industry, please consider the following Scientific Liaison opportunity.
Essential Duties
- Grants and Contract Management
- Assist in identifying sources of non-dilutive funding (NGOs, Federal Government, and other entities) and communicating such opportunities to leadership.
- Prepare and submit a complete proposal package to identified solicitations and complying with scientific, administrative, and budgetary requirements)
- Responsible for crafting the research strategy with relevant partners in R&D and others while ensuring that the project aligns with company goals and objectives.
- Post-award management of grants/contracts including regular updates and progress reports to grantors.
- Ability to distill progress on R&D and manufacturing and independently and effectively communicate progress to grantor
- Stay abreast of and interprets sponsor’s rules and regulations and terms and conditions of specific grants, including those of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), BARDA, and Department of Defense.
- Collaborate with Program office such that grant/contract priorities and timelines are met
- Managing External Partners
- Apply knowledge of biological sciences to translate medical, scientific, and technical language into easily understood concepts.
- Work with the marketing and regulatory arms of Visby to identify potential strategic alliances and partnerships with key academic and commercial entities to expand and cement the Visby brand.
- Ability to represent Visby at high-level meetings with Legislative and Executive branches of the Federal Government.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and/or Experience
- Advanced Degree (PhD) in related areas; or equivalent combined experience and training.
- Minimum 2-year work experience working for or with the Federal Government in biomedical or health sciences
- Demonstrated experience with complex, multi-project, multi-million grant proposal development.
Other Qualifications
- Advanced program planning and management of projects.
- Experience with grant management tracking systems and databases, experience utilizing web portals for grant submission to various agencies.
- Advanced skills analyzing information, problems, situations, policies, or procedures to define the problem, need or objective.
- Demonstrated ability to formulate solutions, new program development, alternative choices, and implications for implementation.
- In-depth experience writing about science for both technical reviewers and the public as well as writing science proposals for government agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Proven ability with writing and submitting grant applications, particularly in large science grants (project type grants with multiple projects and cores).
- Advanced knowledge of national and international trends in research and experience with research programs.
- Ability to work independently and build relationships within different verticals across Visby
Physical Demands
- Comfortable performing repetitive tasks and/or motions.
- Must be able to lift a minimum of 10 lbs.
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