Job Details

San Marcos, TX

Texas State University

Grant Coordinator - McNair Scholars

Posting Number: 2026477

Location: San Marcos

Department: McNair Scholars

Recruitment Type: Open Recruiting

Job Type: Full-Time

Monthly Salary: $3,833.33

Job Category: Exempt

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in higher education administration, student development, counseling, social work, or STEM-related field.
• Experience in collegiate teaching or working with federal TRIO programs, academic support programs, or similar programs serving underrepresented college students.
• Experience providing academic, career, economic literacy advising, and assisting underrepresented college students with the research/scholarly activities, graduate school admissions, and financial aid process.
• Ability to coordinate programming activities and processes for working with students.
• Knowledge of graduate school admissions procedures and resources and national research presentation opportunities.
• Ability to track and follow Participants ‘attainment, retention, and successes.
• Knowledge of academic advising and college, financial aid, economic literacy activities, and related services for students.
• Experience advising and assisting Students with the graduate school admissions and financial aid process.
• Ability to maintain a caseload of Participants and provide them with documented services and activities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in higher education administration, student development, counseling, social work, or STEM-related field
• 1 year planning educational and/or cultural trips.
• 1 year experience hiring, training, and supervising in a tutoring or similar support program.
• 2 years’ experience with academic support programs focused on student success.
• Bilingual (Spanish) speaking/writing.

Job Description:

This is a grant funded position. Continuation of this position is contingent upon grant funding.

Reports to the Director of McNair Scholars at Texas State University. The Grant Coordinator promotes educational achievement retention, good standing, and graduation for program participants.

The Grant Coordinator is responsible for overseeing all program events and services (including recruitment, academic guidance activities, workshops, and tutoring assistance, etc.) to ensure compliance with procedures and to meet program goals and objectives.

Evening and weekend work may be required. This is an in-person position.

Job Duties:

• Recruit, Identify, Select Participants for the McNair Scholars Program
• Provide counseling/advising (e.g. academic, career, financial, personal) to students who meet program eligibility requirements.
• Determine student academic needs and develop individualized student development plans.
• Schedule monthly student meetings.
• Document student contact/progress.
• Administer required evaluations.
• Plan and coordinate trips, events and programming of academic year and the summer residential program.
• Conduct workshops, presentations, trainings, and team meetings.
• Complete monthly reports.
• Hire/train/supervise tutors and coordinate tutoring activities and events.
• Seek professional development opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned.