Director of Sponsored Research and Programs

Employment Status: Administrative

Description of Key Responsibility:

+ Identify and recommend grant opportunities that align with the College’s strategic plan and work with the Provost and Deans to identify faculty who could potentially serve as PIs.

+ Continue developing a culture of grant seeking among faculty and make recommendations for strategic investments that build capacity to support faculty scholarship and creative work.

+ Work with the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence ( CAFE ) to advance the mission of supporting faculty scholarship by developing and facilitating professional development opportunities on the topics of proposal writing and grants management.

+ Provide guidance to PIs on proposal development strategies including the facilitation of outreach to program officers at granting organizations.

+ Coordinate organizational meetings with PIs to discuss funder guidelines, generate ideas, assist with conce...