Career Specific Development

This site focuses on providing strategic support to help faculty find funding, develop competitive proposals, and earn prestigious recognition. Find funding and proposal resources, explore limited submission opportunities, and view details on honorific and prestigious awards. 

This page includes everything you need to develop and refine a strong proposal, including information about how to receive a letter of support from OSVCR, proposal training opportunities, and more. Navigate the funding landscape with confidence. 

Explore internal Pitt funding programs alongside tools and resources to help you identify external opportunities. Start your search here.

Get help applying for an NIH Institutional Training Grant at this site, which contains application support, proposal development resources, and more to help you succeed. 

Do you need assistance to speak with your mentor? Are you expecting to have a difficult conversation with a colleague or student? Is your lab team suffering from an open or hidden conflict? Do you have a question about the application of a policy, but don’t know whom to ask? The Health Sciences Ombuds Office can help you with any type of conflict or concern, big or small.

The Honorific Awards Training Course is an online, self-paced workshop for Pitt faculty, designed to provide an in-depth overview of tactics and strategies to successfully compete for honorific awards. 

The Office of the Provost hosts an annual summit that convenes mentors, advisors, and coaches to discuss new trends and best practices in mentoring and advising.

The summit focuses on specific tools, techniques, theories, and concepts that support students as they chart clear goals and direction for the future, develop enduring networks of colleagues and mentors, and sustain their pursuit of success after graduation.

This is a year-long professional development program for faculty members that is designed to cultivate a generation of transformative academic leaders through shared leadership training.

SPRINGBOARD is a yearlong, required orientation program for new faculty investigators within the first year of their faculty appointment in the schools of the health sciences. SPRINGBOARD provides opportunities for faculty members to learn about each other’s research, about available research-related and other resources at Pitt and beyond, to gain knowledge about grant, personnel, and career management skills, and to meet key members of our research and administrative community.

The Center for Mentoring serves as a central resource to support professional excellence by encouraging growth and development of faculty as mentors, scholars, and teachers.