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 the leading medical research center in the world.  We have multiple openings for Scientific Reviewers at the National Institutes of Health.  Full and part-time work schedules as well as hybrid and remote work arrangements available. 
 
KEY TASKS
(1) Provide scientific and operational services to support the planning, coordination, conduct, and documentation of NIH peer review activities in accordance with applicable NIH and Center for Scientific Review (CSR) policies, procedures, guidance, and established review schedules. 
(2) Work with scientific review officers and leadership to manage the scientific peer review of grant and cooperative agreement applications, and contract proposals assigned for primary merit review
(3) 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
(4) Identify the administrative and the scientific issues in the grant applications or contract proposals, including the hypotheses and rationale presented in the applications/proposals. 
(5) Perform a thorough review of the content of each individual application and its relevance in terms of the scientific interests of the Institute.
(6) Serve as an internal authoritative source of information on application receipt, referral and grants management policies and procedures.
(7) Review and make grant assignment decisions and resolve conflicts in assignments based on knowledge of the scientific interests of the Institute
(8) Review draft documents and synthesize comments and incorporate appropriate comments from reviewers into final documents. 
(9) Provide critical review of literature and evaluate research concepts, proposals, protocols, and reports.
(10) Consult with program staff to identify potential reviewers and ascertain conflicts of interest
(11) Obtain, evaluate and coordinate written critiques from expert reviewers.
(12) Mentor and coach peer reviewers; develops training materials, job aids and instructions for use by peer reviewers.

KEY REQUIREMENTS
(1) Ph.D. in Biology, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, or related medical/health related discipline 
(2) Knowledge of NIH peer review process for grant and contract mechanisms
(3) Experience with administrative and operational tasks related to the peer review process including scheduling meetings, drafting meeting documentation, identifying and training review panel members, and preparing and finalizing summaries and reports.

PLEASE APPLY ONLINE
When you apply, please know a Kelly Government Solutions Recruiter will review your resume and will contact you directly, if your skills and experience match the requirements of this position

Due to the high volume of inquiries, we regret that we cannot accept phone calls. Even if you aren’t contacted for this position, you are still part of our talent network.  All Kelly recruiters have access to your profile, which expands your opportunities even further.

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, short-term disability, and a transportation spending account. In addition, this position offers employees the ability to earn up to 160 hours of paid time off annually and eleven paid holidays per benefit year. We also offer a generous defined 401(k) contribution to help you save for retirement. Visit https://www.mykelly.us/us-mykelly/perks/ for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.
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