"Associate Director, Engineering Grant Support"

Position Information

Posting date: 09/12/2025

Closing date: Open Until Filled

Position Number: 1128510

Position Title: Associate Director, Engineering Grant Support

Hiring Range Minimum: $125,000

Hiring Range Maximum: $145,000

Union Type: Not a Union Position

SEIU Level: Not an SEIU Position

FLSA Status: Exempt

Employment Category: Regular Full Time

Scheduled Months per Year: 12

Scheduled Hours per Week: 40

Location of Position: Hanover, NH

Remote Work Eligibility?: Hybrid

Is this a term position?: No

Is this a grant funded position?: No

Position Purpose

The 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.

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.

Key Accountabilities

Research Strategy and Grant Support

• Creates strategic programs to help develop complex multi-investigator proposals (including projects >$10M), uniting faculty across the relevant academic areas and cultivating interdisciplinary research that will lead to significant new opportunities for funding.
• Incubates, develops, and refines areas of scholarly focus in collaboration with researchers, catalyzing grant proposals and new initiatives within and beyond the Thayer ecosystem.
• Engages with graduate students, post docs, and faculty individually or in shared-interest networks, to create long-term strategies to obtain sustained support for new or enhanced scholarly activities, including the nomination of faculty for prizes and awards.
• Strengthens the culture across the institution of pursuing grant-funding for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students in research and scholarship.
• Marshals institutional resources, contributing direct support of proposal writing, review, and revision.
• Generates and implements strategies to embed Dartmouth’s goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion in research programs.
• Works directly with faculty to address broader impact requirements of proposals; connects faculty to others (internally and externally) who may be appropriate broader impact partners.

Percentage Of Time: 70

Communication and Outreach

• Identifies, creates, and cultivates strategic relationships with a primary focus on appropriate federal program officers, but also including regional and international partners, to generate opportunities for Dartmouth research programs.
• Attends events and webinars hosted by federal agencies, sharing relevant insights with GrantGPS and Thayer faculty.
• Works collaboratively with staff providing institutional support to identify, write, and submit grants at Dartmouth, including the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP), Dartmouth and Geisel/Dartmouth Health Offices of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR), the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, and the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer, in coordination with the Vice Provost for Research and the academic deans.
• Shares research advances with internal and external constituencies, regionally and nationally, in coordination with other outreach and communications offices at Dartmouth.

Percentage Of Time: 30