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Manager, Industry Grant Programs (remote)

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) represents more than 4,500 members across 70 countries dedicated to medical advancement and lifesaving care for adults and children with cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of death in the U.S. and worldwide. As Manager, Industry Grant Programs, you will play a key role in securing funding opportunities to advance our mission of leading the global interventional cardiovascular community through education, advocacy, research, and quality patient care.

Reporting to the VP of Industry & Global Partnerships and working closely with the VP of Education, Publications & Quality, you will manage and improve our project development and grant proposal processes. This is a highly engaged role where you will regularly meet with corporate funders (primarily medical device and pharmaceutical companies), assess their needs, and develop custom projects from SCAI’s existing portfolio of research and educational products. Our portfolio includes webinars, in-person education programs, grand rounds presentation resources, ebooks, advisory boards, and more. You will scope and manage the lifecycle of each project and determine impact in alignment with SCAI’s strategic priorities.

Interventional cardiology is a rapidly evolving field with many funding opportunities—your work will have enormous potential to drive growth for the Society. Your ability to synthesize complex scientific information, determine alignment between funders’ interests and SCAI’s expertise, and work across departments to ensure projects comply with grant terms and conditions will be essential to your success.

How You’ll Make an Impact

We have enjoyed year-over-year success in grants and look to your expertise to help us grow our grant revenue from $3M to $5-6M within five years and potentially expand our funder base to include private foundations whose interests align with our mission. Your primary focus will be to:

• Engage members as appropriate for subject matter expertise and collaborate with corporate funders to turn ideas into written grant requests (12 comprehensive projects per year). Actively participate in ideation conversations and use your knowledge of SCAI’s portfolio to create menus of options that match funders’ interests and priorities. Seek feedback and support from SCAI senior leadership and staff to move projects forward.
• Ensure grant proposals are thoroughly researched, accurate, and submitted on time, ultimately increasing the amount of funding we can secure each year. Draft needs assessments, develop effective project timelines, goals, and budgets, evaluate strategies to measure results, and determine the return on investment for SCAI and other stakeholders.

Work Environment, Salary, and Benefits

• You’ll enjoy a flexible, fully remote work environment with the option of a four-day workweek. You will be supported by smart, collaborative, energetic, hard-working colleagues committed to delivering a solid work product.
• The budgeted salary range for this position is $70-85k* with an outstanding benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending account; tuition reimbursement; generous PTO (vacation, holiday, sick); retirement plan with 10% employer contribution; short-term and long-term disability insurance; transportation reimbursement, and more.
• Senior manager level candidates will be considered, salary will be      commensurate with experience.

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values of SCAI’s mission to increase access to quality interventional cardiovascular care by cultivating a specialty and society that is representative of every community.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with physician leaders, industry partners, and other stakeholders to implement the production, distribution, and enhancement of SCAI's products and programs.
• Manage the entire grant proposal process, including developing proposals and budgets, tracking letters of agreement and grant requests, submitting grant applications, and overseeing grant reconciliations. Ensure efficient and timely development of proposals, programs, and associated products.
• Conduct research for grant submissions (market research, needs assessment, best practices, etc.) to develop compelling and evidence-based proposals that align with funders’ priorities and requirements.
• Lead capabilities presentations with funders to establish trust and demonstrate SCAI’s ability to deliver results.
• After implementation, monitor relevant metrics and generate reports on outcomes for stakeholders, using engagement analytics and client evaluation data.
• Improve existing grant templates and processes to streamline workflows and improve quality.
• Represent SCAI at meetings and programs.

Qualifications

• Experience in a medical, clinical, or scientific organization; proficiency in understanding scientific content. Content production or research in the medical space is a plus.
• Experience engaging in member discussions around new programs. Comfortable participating in discussions with funders and other stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and working with a team to set and enforce deadlines, track outcomes, and ensure on-time delivery every time.
• Impeccable writing skills with the ability to synthesize complex scientific information.
• Experience conducting research for relevant project outcomes, such as citing previous examples of similar projects and other sources.

About Us

SCAI has experienced tremendous growth over the past 10 years and today represents more than 5,200 members across 80 countries. Interventional cardiology is a tremendously interesting, important, and constantly changing field where you will be working with world premiere experts. SCAI transforms lifesaving innovation into lifesaving action by providing cutting-edge, high-quality education for interventionalists and their teams.

In the United States, about 40,000 newborns are born with congenital heart defects every year. More than 2 million infants, children, adolescents, and adults are living with congenital heart defects. There are approximately 3 million cardiovascular interventions performed annually in individuals of all ages. Our mission is to lead the global interventional cardiovascular community through education, advocacy, research, and quality patient care. Focus areas for SCAI include establishing standards and guidelines for all aspects of cardiac catheterization and angiography, training, credentialing, safety, and quality assurance for cardiovascular procedures.

To Apply

We encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match with the position description; we will consider people from a variety of backgrounds and career experiences.

Use the "Apply" button on this page or simply email your resume to Aileen Hedden at resumes@staffingadvisors.com with “SCAI – Manager, Grant Development & Outcome Reporting #2023-2779 ASAE” as the subject of the email.

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Internally this position title is: Manager, Grant Development and Outcomes Reporting