REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - EDUCATION AND YRS EXP

Master’s degree

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES

• Master’s degree in a relevant area or the equivalent in education and experience.
• 8+ years of experience working in complex institutions with significant grant-funded activity.
• Commitment to diversity and to serving the needs of a diverse community.
• Evidence of successful grant writing and grant management.
• Experience working with academic leadership, faculty members, and grantmaking institutions at the international, national, and regional levels, particularly in the sciences.
• Demonstrated exceptional writing, analytical, and communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to engage intellectually with faculty and trainees across a wide variety of disciplines and instructional formats.
• Excellent organizational, project management, and decision-making skills.
• Comprehensive knowledge of national and regional grantmaking institutions.
• Knowledge of the systems and processes of university research and the role of scholarship in academic career trajectories.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD.
• Experience in higher education/university setting.

The Senior Associate Director will catalyze major strategic research initiatives to support extramurally funded scholarship in engineering, with a focus on the areas of expertise at the Thayer School of Engineering. In keeping with faculty priorities and Dartmouth’s mission, this individual will be responsible for: identifying and creating novel opportunities for research support in these fields, pro-actively nucleating areas of strength aligned with emerging federal sponsor priorities, strategically connecting individual and group faculty projects to resources, advising administrative leadership on opportunities to enhance Dartmouth research and scholarship, ensuring that these efforts receive attention across the Dartmouth community, regionally, and nationally, and supervising and coordinating activities within GrantGPS and Thayer to ensure strong and consistent success of faculty grant applications across Dartmouth.
Co-funded by GrantGPS and the Thayer School, the position will support activities across the breadth of Thayer faculty’s interests and will report to GrantGPS.