Senior Program Manager, Scientist (Mouse Genetics)

Location: Bar Harbor, Maine, United States; primarily office/laboratory-based with regular interaction in vivarium and wet lab settings. Occasional travel may be required for conferences, site visits, and stakeholder meetings.

Salary: $106,000–$153,729 annually, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global is an independent nonprofit biomedical research institution focused on genetics, genomic solutions, and advancing treatments for human disease.

What you will do

• Lead and coordinate a portfolio of concurrent research programs involving multiple principal investigators, timelines, and funding mechanisms.
• Develop project plans, milestone trackers, risk registers, dashboards, and accountability processes.
• Administer large NIH grants, including RPPRs, renewals, supplements, budgets, deliverables, and agency correspondence.
• Write and edit grant applications, concept papers, scientific summaries, and manuscript materials.
• Provide scientific oversight for mouse genetics, preclinical therapeutic development, genetic models, and in vivo efficacy studies.
• Coordinate compliance, vendor and subcontract oversight, data-sharing agreements, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a relevant field; a Ph.D. in genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, pharmacology, or a related biomedical science field is strongly preferred.
• At least 5 years of research-environment experience, including 2 years in program management or research administration; 6 years of preferred experience is listed.
• Demonstrated expertise in mouse genetics, including transgenic, CRISPR-based, conditional knockout, and other genetic mouse models.
• Direct experience administering NIH grants, preparing RPPRs and competitive renewals, and managing budgets.
• Scientific writing experience with NIH grant applications and/or peer-reviewed publications.
• Strong organization, communication, stakeholder coordination, and multitasking skills; ability to work with laboratory animals and comply with occupational health requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience in therapeutic development, drug discovery, translational research, neuroscience, or rare and genetic diseases.
• Familiarity with NIH eRA Commons, Grants.gov, multi-site or consortium grants, and preclinical regulatory frameworks.
• Knowledge of GLP/GCP principles, project management software, and data visualization tools.
• Postdoctoral research experience, an independent publication record, or an established academic and industry collaborator network.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a nonprofit biomedical research institution with a large, multidisciplinary research community.
• Collaborate with scientists, clinicians, administrators, academic partners, industry, and government organizations.
• Support the mission of advancing genomic research and treatments for cancer, neurological, immune, metabolic, aging, and cardiovascular diseases.
• Occasional scientific conference, site-visit, and stakeholder-meeting travel is part of the role.