Grant Project Director – Title III (Hybrid)

Upper Iowa University; Iowa; Hybride; USD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Free & reduced UIU tuition packages

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Résumé du poste

Upper Iowa University seeks a Project Director to lead day-to-day administration and implementation of a Title III grant project. You will coordinate activities across grant-funded efforts, ensure compliance, and oversee evaluation and sustainability planning.

You will chair committees, manage timelines, monitor budgets, and liaise with university leadership, IT, vendors, and partners to ensure deliverables are met and reports are submitted.

Qualifications

• Experience in grant oversight; grant writing background preferred.
• Strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills to coordinate among multiple stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in higher education administration, project management, and institutional effectiveness.
• Demonstrated knowledge of student success initiatives and experience leading complex, cross-functional projects.

Responsabilités

• Provide day-to-day leadership, administration, and oversight of the Title III grant project, ensuring activities are implemented in accordance with the approved grant proposal, project objectives, timelines, and federal requirements.
• Chair the Project Steering Committee and convene project teams, working groups, and other stakeholders as needed to advance grant-funded initiatives.
• Coordinate the activities of grant-funded and institutional personnel to ensure project activities, deliverables, and performance objectives remain on schedule.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor detailed implementation plans, project timelines/deadlines, milestones, and deliverables; identify potential delays or barriers and coordinate appropriate corrective action.
• Monitor the grant budget in collaboration with appropriate University offices; recommend budget adjustments and resource allocations and assist with ensuring expenditures are allowable, reasonable, allocable, and consistent with the approved grant.
• Coordinate required grant reporting, documentation, recordkeeping, and compliance activities, including preparation and submission of required progress, performance, and other reports.
• Collaborate with Institutional Effectiveness and other appropriate personnel to support project evaluation, data collection, performance measurement, and assessment of progress toward grant objectives.
• Facilitate collaboration among academic and administrative units and serve as a primary liaison among project personnel, University leadership, Information Technology, vendors, consultants, and other internal and external partners.
• Assist in the development and writing of grant proposals, including project narratives, needs statements, goals and objectives, implementation plans, evaluation components, budgets, budget narratives, and other required application materials.
• Collaborate with University leadership, faculty, staff, and external partners to develop and identify competitive grant proposals and coordinate the collection of institutional data, supporting documentation, letters of commitment, and other application materials.

Connaissances

Grant oversight

Organizational skills

Communication

Leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Student success

Project management

Institutional effectiveness

Description du poste

Upper Iowa University seeks a Project Director to lead day-to-day administration and implementation of a Title III grant project. You will coordinate activities across grant-funded efforts, ensure compliance, and oversee evaluation and sustainability planning.

You will chair committees, manage timelines, monitor budgets, and liaise with university leadership, IT, vendors, and partners to ensure deliverables are met and reports are submitted.