Website:
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Job details:
Job Title: Deputy Manager/Manager – Pre-Grants
Reports to: Director - Office of Research and Development
Experience: 3-7 years
Location: Ashoka Campus, Sonipat
Nature of work: Full-time
About Research & Development Office
The Research and Development Office (RDO) at Ashoka has been created to provide centralized assistance to Ashoka faculty and researchers towards academic research. This is done through a set of proactive, capacity-building strategies to increase the University’s competitive advantage and international prominence. The office has four major operation areas – extramural grant management, research infrastructure management, research scholar’s management, and research communication.
Position Overview
The Pre-Award Grants Manager is responsible for managing extramural grant applications and supporting Ashoka researchers, faculty, students, and staff in securing external funding. The role focuses on end-to-end proposal coordination, engagement with various stakeholders, partnership facilitation, and strengthening institutional research capacity through structured support and capacity-building initiatives. The position plays a key role in enhancing the quality, compliance, and competitiveness of grant submissions. This position requires understanding of research funding ecosystems, grant writing skills, and interdisciplinary coordination across STEM, social sciences, humanities, and emerging areas.
Key Responsibilities
1. Funding Opportunity Identification & Dissemination
- Monitor national and international funding agencies and identify strategic funding opportunities aligned with institutional priorities
- Curate and disseminate relevant funding opportunities through targeted communication.
- Develop and maintain internal databases of funding opportunities aligned with faculty research areas.
2. Faculty Engagement and Proposal Development Support
- Provide hands-on support to faculty in developing grant proposals including multi-investigator, and multi-institutional proposals.
- Facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations within the university and with external partners.
3. Pre-Award Coordination and Institutional Approvals
- Manage the institutional pre-award review and coordinate internal approvals and administrative clearances.
- Ensure compliance with sponsor requirements and institutional policies.
- Maintain proposal submission timelines and ensure on-time submission.
- Support nomination processes for major research grants and fellowships.
5. Proposal Submission and Sponsor Coordination
- Coordinate proposal submission through sponsor portals
- Support responses to sponsor queries and revisions.
6. Capacity Building and Training
- Organize workshops on: Grant writing, Funding opportunities, Proposal development best practices
- Develop templates, guidance documents, and SOPs.
7. Data Management, Reporting, and Analytics
- Maintain records of proposals submitted, success rates, and funding trends.
- Generate periodic reports on: Proposal submissions, Funding success rates, Faculty engagement, Funding sources
- Support institutional reporting and benchmarking.
Qualifications
- Master’s or PhD degree in any discipline (sciences, social sciences, management, public policy, humanities).
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in research development, grant management, research administration, stakeholder management and coordination
- Understanding of national and international research funding ecosystems.
- Proficiency in MS Office and data analysis required.
Overall Competencies
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and complex submissions.
- Strong stakeholder coordination and relationship management skills.
- Strategic thinking with attention to detail and compliance.
- Excellent organisational, analytical, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
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