TRIO Director, McNair Scholars Programs

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Summary

Operating Title	TRIO Director, McNair Scholars Programs
Long Classification Title	Trio Director
Campus Location	Durham
Department	UNH McNair Scholars Program
Summary of Position	The Director’s primary responsibility is the administration of the program as the grant P.I., particularly the integration and systematizing of decisions, policies, and managerial priorities. All major decisions regarding time, cost, and performance are channeled through the Director. The Director maintains full control for setting program goals, policies, and methodology and holds full authority to dispense project funds within federal and UNH fiscal policies. The Director is also responsible for advising students in their McNair experience inclusive of proposal writing, graduate school application processes, and all matters both academic and non-academic that students face in their UNH journey. The Director reports to the Executive Director, Student Success.
Acceptable minimum level of education	Master's
Acceptable minimum years of experience	3 years
Additional Job Information
Posting Number	PS4425FY24
Other minimum qualifications	Master’s degree in appropriate academic discipline and three years of experience related to project specialization, supervising professional staff, and grant management including budget and data.
Additional Preferred Qualifications	Experience working with TRIO programs, demonstrated collaboration with faculty and campus resources in higher education setting; grant writing experience; demonstrated leadership and commitment to DEIA in practice.
Salary Information	Salary is complemented by a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, retirement, tuition, and paid time off.
Quicklink for Posting	https://jobs.usnh.edu/postings/59670
Percent Time Information (FTE)	1.00
Grade	24
EEO Statement	The University System of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access/Affirmative Action employer. The University System is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity and inclusiveness across our campus communities and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. The University System prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or marital status.
Institution Information	The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry. The UNH Diversity Resource Guide with information and programming available in the seacoast area, New Hampshire, and the region can be found here: https://www.unh.edu/hr/diversity-resource-guide

Posting Details

Posting Date	02/09/2024
Open Until Filled	Yes
Closing Date
Posting Open to Internal Candidates Only?	No
Interested Internal Candidates Exist?	No
Job Category	Salaried Staff (Exempt)
Appointment Type	Grant Funded
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Duties / Responsibilities

Job Duties

Duty/Responsibility	Project Development: Development of project design, delivery system and modification of project; establish project objectives; identification of target students and best practices, including staff requirements to meet needs; grant writing and securing appropriate external and UNH funding.

Duty/Responsibility	Project Execution: Overall project management. Includes monitoring project for compliance with federal regulations, budget management, as well as developing and analyzing an assessment/evaluation plan for program efficiency. Budget management includes developing, monitoring, and reporting in compliance with USDoE-TRIO and university regulations; coordination with UNH Finance Team, Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) and Support Team for the Administration of Research (STAR), managing payroll and stipends; doing strategic three-year budget planning in line with UNH practices. Utilize existing systems for data collection for federal government and UNH reporting, and for meeting program objectives. Develop, implement, and monitor grant evaluation plan. Collect and analyze formative and summative evaluation data to assure project objectives are being met. Formative data is collected by analyzing database to determine if project is making substantial progress towards goals. Summative data is collected at end of grant year via database, student surveys, and the National Student Clearinghouse. Adjust programming according to outcome data to assure objectives are met. Oversee student outreach and recruitment activities, convene Advisory Board, engage faculty mentors, and oversee student programming such as curriculum development, student centered events such as Summer Research Fellowship (8-week summer research program), AY Research Seminars, college visits/conference attendance with students and event planning.

Duty/Responsibility

Project Execution: Overall project management. Includes monitoring project for compliance with federal regulations, budget management, as well as developing and analyzing an assessment/evaluation plan for program efficiency. Budget management includes developing, monitoring, and reporting in compliance with USDoE-TRIO and university regulations; coordination with UNH Finance Team, Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) and Support Team for the Administration of Research (STAR), managing payroll and stipends; doing strategic three-year budget planning in line with UNH practices.

Utilize existing systems for data collection for federal government and UNH reporting, and for meeting program objectives. Develop, implement, and monitor grant evaluation plan. Collect and analyze formative and summative evaluation data to assure project objectives are being met. Formative data is collected by analyzing database to determine if project is making substantial progress towards goals. Summative data is collected at end of grant year via database, student surveys, and the National Student Clearinghouse. Adjust programming according to outcome data to assure objectives are met.

Oversee student outreach and recruitment activities, convene Advisory Board, engage faculty mentors, and oversee student programming such as curriculum development, student centered events such as Summer Research Fellowship (8-week summer research program), AY Research Seminars, college visits/conference attendance with students and event planning.

Duty/Responsibility	Management & Supervision: Overall staff supervision; hiring, training, assigning work, completing annual evaluations and when necessary, implementing corrective action. Direct supervision of associate director and program support assistant, graduate student peer advisors and summer instructors and staff.

Duty/Responsibility	Direct Service: Advise and provide educational counseling to low income first generation and underrepresented students of color at UNH. The need to keep confidential and/or sensitive information of students, by abiding to FERPA protocol. Service to students includes; summer and academic year research fellowship and graduate school preparation. Summer/AY courses include; research proposal writing (taught by director), GRE seminar, graduate school preparation (taught by director &/or associate director), and an introduction to research.

Duty/Responsibility

Direct Service: Advise and provide educational counseling to low income first generation and underrepresented students of color at UNH. The need to keep confidential and/or sensitive information of students, by abiding to FERPA protocol. Service to students includes; summer and academic year research fellowship and graduate school preparation. Summer/AY courses include; research proposal writing (taught by director), GRE seminar, graduate school preparation (taught by director &/or associate director), and an introduction to research.

Duty/Responsibility	Communications & Marketing: Publicize objectives and nature of McNair Program activities through recruiting activities as well as participation in university and TRIO committees that form and develop an institutional network of faculty, deans, directors, advisors, and student support services staff. Oversee social media presence. Pursue professional development.

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Documents Needed to Apply

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Diversity Statement

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