Description
Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with one of the most prestigious research organizations in the world. We are currently seeking a Scientific Review Administrator with the National Institutes of Health in, Maryland.
Scope:
The purpose of this Scientific Review Administrator contractor position is to provide NINR/NIH peer review services to Scientific Review Brach. The contractor will help SROs and review chief in pre-meeting prep, organize the meeting with SROs, and write summary statement drafts after review meetings.
Specific Qualifications:
Certifications & Licenses - Ph.D.
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
Tasks:
Performs administrative review of research grant applications.
Review and prepare written reviews 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.
Assign applications to reviewers.
Determine appropriate meeting type; face-to-face, teleconference, Internet-Assisted meeting, etc.
Identifies involved persons who must be on a conflict-of-interest list and identifies deficiencies which must be addressed prior to review.
Assess reviewers against applications for potential conflicts of interest.
Enter, update, and check the correctness of conflict data for all reviewers.
Use databases and internet sites to identify appropriate reviewers.
Examine key personnel, institutional affiliations and letters of support associated with each grant application to determine potential conflicts of interest.
Attends peer review meetings to take notes for use when preparing final summary of documentation of meeting proceedings.
Represent and gather information at meetings to report back to the branch.
Schedule review meetings; prepare materials for reviewers; interact with staff.
Captures the results of committee deliberations during the review meeting.
Attend study section meetings and support the federal Scientific Review Officer by taking note of discussions.
Consult with staff as necessary to ensure smooth execution of pre- and post-meeting details.
Attend review meetings and ensure that each protocol receives an appropriate and fair review; create a meeting roster and enter relevant reviewer information; and enter meeting information in Internet Assisted Review.
Obtains written critiques from reviewers.
Obtain, evaluate, and coordinate written critiques from expert reviewers.
Manage the coordination of critiques form expert reviewers.
Subsequent to the reviews, manage the coordination of critiques from expert reviewers,
Ensure that reviewers and committee members are provided with adequate opportunities to present their major critiques.
Evaluates incoming reviews for completeness and accuracy.
Proofread, clarify and edit reviews, summaries and reports.
Identify the administrative and the scientific issues in the grant applications or contract proposals.
Ensure that summary statements and technical evaluation reports are compiled and edited to produce high quality documents.
Analyzes scientific content of grant applications.
Determine whether appropriate human subject and animal information is contained in the applications.
Provide scientific and technical assistance and consultation.
Apply scientific knowledge in areas related to the mission and the NIH peer review process.
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.
Evaluate scientific aspects of concepts, proposals, protocols and reports for research.
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