Teach! Write! Learn! Become a Grant Coach!

Please email Crystal Botham, PhD (cbotham@stanford.edu) if you are interested in becoming a Grant Coach!

Grant Coaches are essential for the Grant Writing Academy’s success

We train postdocs as Grant Coaches to lead our Proposal Bootcamp courses (BIOS 242, BIOS 263), a 4-5 hours commitment per week during the Autumn Quarters. Meet our current and past Grant Coaches. Specific roles include:

• Supporting and facilitating peer review by training participants to give and receive feedback via a structured process
• Supporting and facilitating focused feedback from faculty
• Clarifying and reinforcing writing strategies presented through course materials (readings, videos, lectures, class activities)
• Fostering a supportive writing community within and beyond the classroom
• Providing constructive feedback to writers
• Delivering curriculum and other relevant content and sharing expertise

Grant Coach are paid an hourly rate and gain conceptual and practical experiences:

• Developing and articulating research strategies – a critical skill for independent research
• Writing effectively – a necessary skill for all career paths
• Asking for and providing effective feedback – a mandatory skill for mentoring in all careers
• Facilitating peer and faculty review sessions – a crucial skill for success as reviewers, teachers, and mentors
• Teaching – a unique opportunity to make an enormous difference
• Building community – become part of a network of professionals committed to excellence in training the next generation of scientists

Hourly rate for new Grant Coaches will be $45/hr and $50/hr for returning Grant Coaches.

The Grant Coach training and coaching time fulfill requirements for the Postdoc Teaching Certificate.

We are looking for Grant Coaches with:

• Experience with submitting NIH diversity supplements, NIH fellowships (F30, F31, F31), or NSF GRFP
• Experience with teaching online courses or workshops

Feedback from Grant Coaches:

“The teaching opportunities gave me reassurance in my capacity to teach and mentor within an academic setting. It gave me more confidence in teaching and interacting with students.  It provides wonderful clarity on how to write grants and also help students thrive.”

“Provided an opportunity to formalize my own grant writing techniques, learn new strategies and then test the best ways to distill them for others.”

“The Grant Coach program provided me with a sense of confidence concerning my career choices”

“Provided a classroom environment that needed to be managed, which is a rare opportunity at Stanford as a postdoc.”

Questions: Email Crystal Botham (cbotham@stanford.edu)

Grant Coaches

• Stephanie Balters, PhD
• Samuel Thompson, PhD
• Rebekah Gullberg, PhD 
• Elizabeth Maynes, MD PhD
• Colwyn Headley, PhD 
• Amy Nippert, PhD 
• MK Quinn, PhD
• Iris van ‘t Erve, PhD
• Albina Ibrayeva, PhD
• Cellas Ari’ka Hayes, PhD
• Renato Navarro, PhD

Past Grant Coaches