Jacqueline Steadman

•Provide pro-active support and advice to scientists on funding opportunities and in the development, approval and submission of funding proposals and activation of subsequent awards;
•Provide specialist expertise with respect to research application processes (including funder specific terms & conditions, budgeting, ethics and aspects of research agreements);
•Draft (non-scientific) elements of the proposal as required such as justification of resources;
•Using the Crick grants management system (Worktribe), coordinate proposal budgets whilst abiding by funder cost rules and Crick costing practices. Ensure that budgets and applications are approved by the relevant team prior to submission.
•Initiate due diligence checks in line with Crick policy.
•Initiate, review, and provide input into negotiations for grant and grant-related agreements in collaboration with the Crick Legal team.
•Work closely with other colleagues in Operations, especially the post-award grants team and Human Resources to ensure smooth activation of the grant and quick recruitment of project-funded staff.
•Provide a first-line of support for queries about the Crick Grant Management System (Worktribe), ensuring data collected is accurate.
•Liaise with external funders and collaborators to develop proposals and quickly resolve any queries.
•Contribute to the review, development and improvement of pre-award procedures and systems to facilitate efficient and effective pre-award support.

• Develop fundraising materials aligned to priority projects for use by the Development and Alumni Department (DAD) team and UCT senior leadership
• Edit and proofread proposal content with attention to language, style, and relevance to proposal requirements
• Support the generation of content for fundraiser-focused publications and other strategic DAD publications
• Streamlined the proposal development process, creating a more efficient workflow to reduce turnaround time.

• Identified relevant funding opportunities and drafted funding opportunity announcements for both targeted and broad circulation within the faculty
• Engaged with prospective applicants to identify specific opportunities for them, as well as to assess institutional and individual eligibility
• Assisted with submission and project management (PM) of strategic, multi-institutional/ multi-country grant applications
• Planned, administratively supported, and submitted large research grant proposals to national and international funders, such as the Wellcome Trust, Wellcome LEAP, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
• Improved proposal quality through meticulous editing, proofreading, and adherence to funder requirements.

• Administered funding for various projects within the Faculty's Research Enterprise
• Received and collated applications for review by the appropriate sub-committees
• Drafted and sent outcome letters to successful and unsuccessful applicants
• Compiled reports of spending for external funders, such as Harry Crossley and the Cancer Research Trust
• Coordinated the Health Science Faculty's contribution to the annual UCT research output submission to the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)
• Promoted a culture of continuous improvement by regularly reviewing current practices and identifying opportunities for enhancement

• Assisted with the collection and analysis of research data for an inter-disciplinary, multi-omics research study titled The Shared Roots of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease Project (Shared Roots)
• Captured case report files (CRFs) for approximately six hundred patients and controls enrolled in the Shared Roots study
• Ensured quality control of stored CRFs was maintained and implemented a cross-checking system of captured data on the REDcap database
• Extracted and entered specific information from academic articles into Excel spreadsheets for a large-scale systematic review concerning attempted and completed suicide
• Edited academic articles for submission to peer-reviewed journals, including reference checking, language editing and ensuring that the article adheres to the journal's style requirements.