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Assistant Director of External Fellowships- Graduate College (112005)

Employer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Champaign, IL

Position Type: Postdoc
Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

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Assistant Director of External Fellowships

Graduate College

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has an opening for an Assistant Director of External Fellowships in the Graduate College. The Assistant Director contributes to the Graduate College’s efforts to help graduate students at the University of Illinois compete for external grants and fellowships. This effort is managed by the Office of External Fellowships, which functions as the campus’s primary source of information, training, and expertise on graduate level external funding.

External grants and fellowships enable graduate students to further their academic pursuits. Such awards recognize scholarly excellence and bring national distinction to our students and university. The Assistant Director will contribute to the Graduate College's efforts to increase the number of grant and fellowship awards received by graduate students. The Assistant Director will also contribute to the Graduate College’s efforts to secure its own funding for fellowships and related programs and will help develop other strategies to enhance research and professional development opportunities for graduate students.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Assistant Director works as part of the Graduate College’s Office of External Fellowships, which 1) devises and implements educational programming and services that help graduate students develop competency in grant writing, 2) provides individualized advising to fellowship and grant applicants to help those applicants craft the most competitive applications possible, and 3) develops a host of additional services and resources to enhance graduate students’ competitiveness for external funding. The incumbent works closely with the Director of Fellowships, and specific duties include the following:

Develops and implements educational programming (namely proposal-writing workshops and training sessions) designed to teach graduate students how to communicate their research in a manner appropriate for external funding proposals.
Offers individualized critique and advising to students applying for external fellowships and grants. This service applies to students in all fields and departments, and the advising will rely heavily on the incumbent’s expertise as a researcher in his/her own right and his/her ability to understand high level (doctoral) research in all academic arenas: social sciences, humanities, and STEM.
Helps generate public awareness strategies (targeted emails, social media, press releases, print materials, videos, etc.) that promote the importance of external fellowships, in general, as well as promote specific fellowship opportunities, in particular.
Conducts direct outreach activities to departmental leadership and to student groups to promote external fellowships and raise awareness of funding opportunities relevant to that particular department or group.
Helps manage external funding competitions that require preliminary campus selection processes (e.g., Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, Google, DAAD, Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois, HHMI-Gilliam, Lindau-Nobel, Schmidt, Boren, etc.). Oftentimes, this entails recruiting faculty members to serve on review panels, then coaching those faculty members on the fellowship’s guidelines and evaluation criteria, chairing the review sessions, and writing up results.
Conducts ongoing independent research on graduate level funding opportunities (fellowships, scholarships, grants, research internships, etc.) for the purpose of serving as a campus expert on the opportunities that exist, the mission and interests of the funders that offer such opportunities, and the application protocols and evaluation criteria of those opportunities.
Helps curate the Fellowship Finder database by remaining abreast of the national fellowship landscape and ensuring that the database includes all relevant funding opportunities and that each listing is accurate and helpful to users.
Organizes special events such as recognition ceremonies, information sessions, panel discussions, and guest speaker presentations.
Gathers data for use in fellowship-oriented projects, including the Graduate College’s own efforts to obtain funding for internal fellowship and grant programs. Data may come from online research, institutional databases, or other sources.
Helps manage in-house materials such our collection of sample proposals and our online “Proposal Writing Resources” page.
Performs other duties as needed.

Position Requirements and Qualifications:

Required Education: Master's degree in a research-oriented discipline

Preferred Education: Doctorate

Required Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Academic proposal-writing expertise. Ideally, this will be demonstrated by the applicant’s having won at least one major external fellowship or grant as a graduate student.
Ability to evaluate doctoral level research content, including the ability to recognize and evaluate coherence, clarity, accessibility, and concision (or lack thereof) in a funding proposal. Ability to teach and advise students from any and all disciplines on how to achieve coherence, clarity, accessibility, and concision in a funding proposal.
Relevant experience in a higher education environment (advising, teaching, program administration, etc.)
Superb oral and written communication skills and ability to synthesize, distill, and present complex information.
Ability to offer engaging training sessions and presentations.
Ability to offer forthright criticism to students in a supportive and constructive manner.
Ability to interact professionally and work collaboratively with diverse groups of faculty, administrators, students, and external constituents.

APPLICATION:

To ensure full consideration, application materials must be received by June 13, 2019. All candidates must create a profile through https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three professional references. Interviews may begin prior to close of the search, but a hiring decision will not be made until after the close of the search. This position is a 100% full time, twelve month, benefits-eligible Academic Professional position. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. Start date is as soon as possible after the close of the search. For further information about this position, please contact Jennifer Steiling at steiling@illinois.edu.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Grad College Category:5-Education and Student Services Title:Assistant Director of External Fellowships- Graduate College (112005) Open Date:05/16/2019 Close Date:06/13/2019 Organization Name:Graduate Admin

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Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering.

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture.

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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