Grants and Proposals Specialist

Overview

Benefits ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:

• Industry leadership:
  We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
• On-the-job-learning:
  You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits:
  We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
• Retirement Savings:
  Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
• Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to Linked In Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identity theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
• Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.

At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.

As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry s strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.

The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare

ECRI Is Proud To Serve The Healthcare Industry, From Providers And Insurers To Government Agencies, And Medical Associations. Our Areas Of Focus Include

• Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
• Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
• Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.

ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally. The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees.

As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.

It s what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.

The Grants and Proposals Specialist assists in raising the profile of ECRI by identifying and responding to RFXs i.e., Requests for Information [RFIs], Requests for Proposals [RFPs]) to expand funding opportunities from government agencies and private philanthropic organizations. This individual coordinates the evaluation and tracking of international and domestic funding opportunities. Provides professional and administrative work in researching, identifying, developing, and responding to public and private grant opportunities.

Assist with the development of proposal materials, gather supporting documentation, and ensure timely submissions of applications that adhere to the RFXs  requirements. Knowledge/experience in proposal writing, funding opportunity/prospect research, and winning grants/contracts from the public and private sectors is essential. Knowledge/experience in the healthcare industry (e.g., patient safety, healthcare quality, risk management, infection prevention and control, evidence-based medicine, medical product and device safety, health information technologies, aging…