Large Proposal Support
Research Development Services (RDS) provides faculty with proposal development support for multidisciplinary funding opportunities.
RDS can assist with idea development and proposal planning and/or project management throughout the proposal development process. Specific assistance might include a combination of the following:
- Explore and analyze potential funding opportunities
- Internal and external capability assessments
- Organize workshops or brainstorming sessions with faculty
- Support engagement with funding agency representatives
- Solicitation analysis and advice on agency requirements
- Proposal development planning (checklists, outlines, schedule, responsibilities, assignments)
- Coordinate consultant support
- Facilitate proposal team meetings to clarify project goals and implementation plans
- Coordinate with partner institutions/entities
- Assistance with the visual appeal of the proposal (graphics, fonts, white-space, etc.)
- Provide agency specific templates and guidance
- Assist with gathering and collecting university information and data for required documents
- Document collection, coordination, and compliance check
- Documents include but not limited to Biosketches, Current and Pending, Conflict of Interest, Letters of Support, etc.
- Structure proposal outline as a writing guide
- Provide customized templates and samples of key documents
- Provide suggestions to increase the power and clarity of the key messages/themes
- Edit and format for consistency across multiple sections and authors for voice, grammar, stylistic elements, clarity, cohesiveness, and overall effect
- Condense text and eliminate redundancies
- Finalize/polish final documents
- Graphics support (free with VPR's approval)
- Provide comments on the focus, organization, and development of preliminary drafts
- Provide comments on clarity of significance, innovation, and potential impact of proposed work
- Provide comments for compliance with review criteria, funder mission and guidelines, and past reviewer comments (if available)
- Organize and facilitate internal proposal reviews by RDS staff
- Red Team Review: Identifying and coordinating external review of well developed drafts. (Free with VPR’s approval)
- Note: the proposal must be reviewed internally for cost justification of the use of externally paid reviewers
Contact Us
Gabriel Rivera, MBA, Associate Director
Focus: Large Proposals
Biography
979.458.1860
rivera@tamu.edu
Megan A. Bergeron, PhD, CRA, Senior Research Development Officer
Focus: Large Proposals
Biography
megan.bergeron@tamu.edu
K. Lance Kelly, PhD, Senior Research Development Officer
Focus: Large Proposals
Biography
k.lancekelly@tamu.edu