Moonshot Program Architect (Remote, Part-Time)

Engineering Biology Research Consortium; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Engineering Biology Research Consortium seeks a Technical Program Consultant to support DARPA/ARPA-H funding efforts on a remote, part-time basis (10–15 hrs/week) with a potential path to full-time. The role focuses on crafting moonshot proposals, building consortia, and managing programs with government-specific nuances.

Ideal candidates have DARPA/ARPA-H SETA experience or comparable government-funded program exposure, strong technical writing skills, and the ability to guide projects across

Qualifications

• Strong technical writing and feedback capacity.
• Ability to provide insightful feedback on highly complex technical proposals in areas of science and engineering you have never worked with before.
• Responsiveness, professionalism and affability needed to work with a diverse set of highly demanding clients.
• Capacity to pivot to novel highly intense projects with short notice and minimize failure risks on tight deadlines.
• Preferred: PhD with domain depth in biotech, health, AI, sensing, robotics, energy, or other hard tech fields.

Responsibilities

• Shape ideas that will receive moonshot funding: work with our clients to develop ambitious but achievable proposals.
• Serve as a jack of all trades for project development: help draft assorted documentation ranging from project descriptions to other materials.
• Build consortia. Source and screen partners, leverage and develop networks across the bio and tech space, evaluate and screen promising technologies.
• Design finances and project milestones: ensure that we develop program structures that are well defined and executable.
• Serve as a government affairs expert: ensure that our clients feel comfortable with all government specific nuances of the funding opportunities that they are engaging with.
• Project management: ensure projects are well managed and executed in a timely and efficient fashion, handle diverse stakeholders with varying degrees of preparedness.

Skills

Technical writing

Feedback capacity

Project management

Independent work

Education

PhD in biotech/health/AI

Job description

Engineering Biology Research Consortium seeks a Technical Program Consultant to support DARPA/ARPA-H funding efforts on a remote, part-time basis (10–15 hrs/week) with a potential path to full-time. The role focuses on crafting moonshot proposals, building consortia, and managing programs with government-specific nuances.

Ideal candidates have DARPA/ARPA-H SETA experience or comparable government-funded program exposure, strong technical writing skills, and the ability to guide projects across