• You lead the full lifecycle of funding proposals, from opportunity identification and cultivation to successful award and smooth handoff to program teams. • You coordinate cross-functional teams—including scientific staff, Programs, Finance, Operations, and Communications—to transform innovative research concepts and partnerships into high-quality, funder-aligned submissions. • You establish clear timelines, facilitate kickoff and review meetings, manage iterative drafting, and ensure timely, compliant preparation of final packages for submission. • You contribute strategic insights to bid/no-bid decisions and proposal positioning in collaboration with the Director of Development and Program Leadership, helping shape winning themes that align with PSE's fundraising strategy and funder priorities. • You embed rigorous compliance into every proposal to protect PSE from legal, financial, reputational, and operational risks. • You develop and apply detailed compliance checklists, verify all required certifications, forms, eligibility rules, and data submissions, and confirm PSE's full ability to deliver on proposed commitments ethically and feasibly. • You coordinate essential agreements such as NDAs, LOIs, due diligence reviews, and subaward documents to secure strong partnerships. • You align financial plans with scientific objectives to create realistic, compelling, and internally consistent proposals. • You gather and incorporate workplans, effort estimates, staffing needs, resumes, biographical sketches, and salary justifications from Principal Investigators and technical experts. • You verify precise alignment between technical narratives, budgets, and subaward details, including thorough cost explanations. • You enhance PSE's competitiveness by researching funders, competitors, and potential collaborators to strengthen proposal positioning in line with Director-led strategy. • You serve as the central coordinator for multi-organization proposals, managing shared deadlines, document exchange, role assignments, compliance flow-downs, and collaborative responsibilities. • You oversee post-submission progress from award notification through negotiations, final signatures, and project start dates.