Project Director (ELPSG Grant) (Finance)
Department: Dean of Science & Engineering Salary: Commensurate with education and experience.
Description:
The ELPSG Grant Project Director supports the Principal Investigator with project management, budgets, and activities on a daily basis. Responsible for supervising graduate assistants and tutors, coordinating mentor selection and training, and serving as liaison to the Advisory Panel. Assists with research data collection and analysis and prepares results for evaluation and dissemination.
Note: This is a full-time, grant funded position. Continuation of the position is dependent upon future funding.
Duties:
- Recruits, trains, supervises and evaluates all student employees including Graduate Students, Embedded Tutors, Research Assistants, and Interns.
- Monitors and may approve hours and timesheets for biweekly student employees.
- Prepares the Annual Progress/Final report.
- Oversees daily program activities including monitoring the budget and participating in research data collection.
- Creates avenues to promote the program, including the grant website, social media accounts, as well as presentations to faculty, staff, student groups, and departmental meetings.
- Maintains contact with all shareholders including students, faculty, community, and surrounding industries.
- Organizes monthly meetings, prepares meeting agenda, takes meeting minutes and performs related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in education, counseling, psychology, student personnel, STEM field or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in administering federal grants and budgets, developing and maintaining an academic support service, and working with the target population in a student service and retention capacity.
- Experience with fiscal and data management.
- Experience in overcoming barriers similar to those of the targeted population.
- Experience with specific STEM fields.
- Bilingual skill (English/Spanish)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of STEM fields in order to promote STEM education to incoming students.
- Skills in developing and maintaining annual progress reports.
- Supervisory skills in working with professional and student employees.
- Skills in using Microsoft Office suite products including Teams and Zoom as well as setting up conference room systems.
- Knowledge of and skills in working with minority, first generation, low income, and students with disabilities.
- Ability to communicate effectively both in writing and orally and to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
- Demonstrated organizational, managerial, excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with compassion and understanding.
- Ability to organize and see projects through to completion.
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The University of Houston System and its universities are an Equal Opportunity Institution.
