Assistant Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations

The position is a revenue-generating position and reports to the director of corporate and foundation relations. Manage the faculty grants process and consult with faculty to recommend funding agencies, develop strategies, and review the university's grant- seeking practices for grant proposal and budget development. Engage in research to develop an in depth knowledge and understanding of public and private funding opportunities that support liberal arts college faculty members and programs; develop knowledge of and maintain currency on federal grant opportunities (NSF, NIH, NEH, DoE, etc.) Monitor RFP deadlines and disseminate funding opportunities and disseminate grant funding opportunities to the director, vice president for university relations, and other campus constituents as appropriate. Retain accurate and timely constituent information in the Millennium database, and establish a system of record keeping for public agency grants in partnership with University Relations Information Services.