Director, GrantGPS

This role offers flexible scheduling for 1-2 remote days a week.

Hanover NH

The Director, GrantGPS leads Dartmouth's grant proposal support initiative, assisting campus partners in developing, communicating, and coordinating research strategies to maximize opportunities for securing grants of $10M or more. This role also identifies and shares emerging areas of strength and interest among faculty and Dartmouth leadership, ensuring the institution stays ahead of funding trends and maintains its position as a leading research university.

GrantGPS supports Dartmouth's faculty across more than 50 disciplines, offering a wide range of services such as grant-writing workshops, individual consultations, and publishing guidance. The initiative helps faculty pursue large research grants from federal agencies such as NIH, NSF, DoD, and private foundations like the Guggenheim. By providing personalized support, GrantGPS ensures faculty have the tools and resources to succeed in securing significant research funding. To learn more about GrantGPS, click here.

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* Collaborates with academic deans, senior leadership, and faculty to coordinate and develop the institution's research strategy.

* Leverages a broad understanding of faculty scholarly interests to identify strategic and programmatic funding opportunities and shares and supports these applications, including large ($10M+), multi-project proposals

* Utilizes external intelligence to identify and promote grant and scholarly opportunities, fostering strategic initiatives across schools to enhance convergence and efficiency.

* Deploys GrantGPS resources to secure extramural funding, including federal, state, pilot, fellowship, and publication opportunities.

* Models GPS's intellectual engagement and collegiality while leading proposal development.

* Oversees all GrantGPS activities and services.

* Recruits, trains, and supervises staff to provide grant-seeking support and faculty development across diverse intellectual domains.

* Evaluates program success, implements new strategies, and shares outcomes in campus and professional forums to increase visibility and impact.

* Works directly with faculty, individually or in shared-interest groups, to develop tailored strategies for securing sustained support for new or expanded scholarly activities, including identifying large-scale funding opportunities.

* Guides, supports, and contributes to collaborative proposal writing with faculty and staff colleagues for individual and programmatic projects.

* Develops relationships with faculty as a trusted intellectual and administrative partner, helping to refine and strengthen proposals.