Grants Officer

at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Illinois Wesleyan University seeks a full-time Grants Officer.  Reporting to the Provost, this position will anchor university-wide efforts to maximize its external funding resources in alignment with university priorities; involved in pre-award, post-award, and all related activities related to grant seeking and award management. This is a full-time, 12 month position. Open to hybrid, or remote with the expectation of quarterly travel to campus and occasional operational need.  Generous benefits include health, retirement, considerable time off and access to multiple tuition programs for employees and dependents. 

Responsibilities:

• Prospecting for funding opportunities to support both individual research projects as well as broader, departmental/divisional/institutional initiatives
• Working closely with administrators, faculty, and staff to maintain focus and forward momentum in the proposal development and writing process to meet submission deadlines
• Collaborating with principal investigators/program directors (PIs/PDs) to build budgets that are compliant with funder and institutional policies and guidelines
• Supporting proposal development by securing institutional data needed to support the application
• Working with principal investigators and program directors to ensure compliance with external guidelines and regulations
• Participate as an ex officio member of the Research Advisory Committee and the Faculty Development Committee.  In addition, will provide insights on appropriate programming in the Thorpe Center for Faculty Development to advance a grant-seeking culture among our faculty.