New and Early Career Faculty Opportunities

NSF / Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

Deadline: Annually, fourth Wednesday in July
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22586/nsf22586.htm

Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:

Each year NSF selects nominees for the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from among the most meritorious recent CAREER awardees. Selection for this award is based on three important criteria: 1) performance of innovative research at the frontiers of science, engineering, and technology that is relevant to the mission of the sponsoring organization or agency, 2) community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education or community outreach, and 3) commitment to STEM equity, diversity, accessibility, and/or inclusion.

NSF / Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)
Deadline: Sep 20, 2021 (Third Monday in September, Annually Thereafter)
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21591/nsf21591.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&W…
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
This solicitation encourages potentially transformative proposals in any area of CISE research from PIs who are in their first academic position post-PhD. The goal is for the PI to have the essential resources to launch their research career so that they may establish an independent research profile. For the purposes of this program, CISE defines "essential resources" as sufficient funds for 48 months of graduate student support, with more flexibility for faculty at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs). The CRII program is part of CISE's strategy to increase its investments in the development and growth of the research capabilities of future generations of computer and information scientists and engineers, including computational and data scientists and engineers. This solicitation provides the opportunity for early-career researchers who do not have adequate organizational or other means of support to pursue their early-career research, including to recruit and mentor their first graduate students (or undergraduate students, in the case of faculty at undergraduate and two-year institutions), which is one critical step in a career pathway that is expected to lead to research independence and a subsequent stream of projects, discoveries, students and publications.

ARO / Air Force Fiscal Year 2024 Young Investigator Research Program (YIP)
Deadline: Jun 12, 2023 (TBA)
https://community.apan.org/wg/afosr/w/researchareas/12792/young-investi…
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Fiscal Year 2024 Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) intends to support early in career scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees by 1 April 2014 or later showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.

ONR / Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Young Investigator Program
Deadline: Jul 1, 2023 (TBA)
https://www.onr.navy.mil/en/work-with-us/funding-opportunities/announce…
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for its Young Investigator Program (YIP). ONR's Young Investigator Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their PhD or equivalent degree on or after 01 January 2015, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The objectives of this program are to attract outstanding faculty members of Institutions of Higher Education (hereafter also called "universities") to the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology (S & T) research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. Individuals who are holding U.S. non-profit equivalent positions are also encouraged to apply.

DARPA / Young Faculty Award (YFA)
Deadline: Jan 25, 2023 (TBA)
https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/for-universities/young-faculty-award
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA's mission to create and prevent technological surprise. YFA will provide high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research that enables transformative DoD capabilities. Ultimately, YFA is developing the next generations of researchers focused on national security issues.

NASA / New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science
Deadline: Feb 14, 2023
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solI…{ABBB31C9-F7B5-EBEE-98EB-2006F5D1CE43}&path=open
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
In applied sciences, the ESD encourages the use of data from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites and airborne missions to tackle tough challenges and develop solutions that improve our daily lives. Specific areas of interest include efforts that help institutions and individuals make better decisions about our environment, food, water, health, and safety). In technological research, the ESD aims to foster the creation and infusion of new technologies – such as data processing, interoperability, visualization, and analysis as well as autonomy, modeling, and mission architecture design – in order to enable new scientific measurements of the Earth. The ESD also promotes innovative development in computing and information science and system or reduce the cost of current observations of direct relevance to ESD.

NIH / Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-18-799.html
Deadline: Nov 18, 2023
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
For support of a postdoctoral or early career research scientists committed to research, in need of both advanced research training and additional experience.

NIH / Independent Research Scientist Development Award
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-20-171.html
Deadline: May 8, 2023
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
For support of an early to mid-career scientists with research funding, in need of additional protected time committed to research.

NIH / Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: Sep 07, 2024
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-21-271.html
Focus Areas of Interests and Opportunities:
The purpose of the MOSAIC Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) program is to support a cohort of early career, independent investigators from diverse backgrounds conducting research in NIH mission areas. The long-term goal of this program is to enhance diversity in the basic biomedical sciences research workforce. The MOSAIC K99/R00 program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds (e.g., see NIHs Interest in Diversity) from their mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions at research-intensive institutions. The MOSAIC K99/R00 program will provide independent NIH research support during this transition to help awardees launch competitive, independent research careers.