Director, Prestigious Fellowships and Awards

Job Description

The University of Nevada, Reno is recruiting for a Director, Prestigious Fellowships and Awards for the Honors College. This position provides strategic leadership for a university-wide program that recruits, advises, and supports undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent alumni, in pursuing nationally and internationally competitive scholarships and fellowships.  The position is housed in the Honors College at the University of Nevada, Reno, and  will expand this foundation into a comprehensive, high-impact program serving students across all disciplines.  Recent student successes, which include Truman, Gilman, Fulbright, Udall, Goldwater, and NSF GRFP awards, demonstrate the exceptional potential of Nevada students and the need for sustained institutional investment to scale these outcomes.  This is a full-time administrative faculty position that reports to the Associate Dean of the Honors College and serves as a member of the Honors College’s leadership team.

Key Duties:

• Provide vision, leadership, and long-term strategy for a centralized fellowships office.
• Design and expand scalable advising, programming, and curricular initiatives.
• Build a campus-wide culture of fellowships awareness and preparation.
• Align fellowships initiatives with institutional priorities and student success goals.
• Lead the expansion of the office from its current structure to a fully staffed unit.
• Develop and implement comprehensive recruitment strategies for diverse applicant pipelines.
• Advise students and alumni through all stages of the fellowship process.
• Oversee and administer the University’s Phi Kappa Phi chapter, including membership recruitment and induction

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree and four years of professional work experience; OR a Master’s Degree and two years of professional work experience

Related Experience:

• Experience advising nationally and internationally competitive fellowship applicants.
• Teaching, mentoring, and/or advising undergraduate and/or graduate students
• Managing complex programs or organizations with multiple stakeholders
• Program assessment, strategic planning, and data-informed decision-making

Compensation Grade

Administrative Faculty - C

To view the salary schedule for this position, please visit: and select Administrative Faculty by Grade. Salary is competitive and commensurate with related education and experience.

Remarkable Retirement

Our retirement plan is beyond compare. Your 19.25% contribution is generously matched by the University. With the faculty retirement plan, you are 100% vested your first day. Sit back and watch your retirement dollars grow! All permanent employees on an annual "A" or "B" contract who are employed at least 50% full-time are eligible to participate in the NSHE retirement program unless they are members of PERS of Nevada.

Perks of Working at the University of Nevada, Reno

• Health insurance options including dental and vision -
• Generous annual, sick leave, long term disability and life insurance –
• E. L. Wiegand Fitness Center offers annual or semester memberships and spouse/domestic partner membership options. 
• supports employees (and eligible dependents) through life's difficult moments. Mountain EAP is located in Reno and specializes in counseling and advising services for personal or interpersonal issues.
• Faculty Senate is the principal representing body for faculty. Its membership includes representatives from each academic and administrative major unit of the University.
• No state income tax!

Grants-in-Aid for Faculty Employees

The University is proud to provide a reduced-rate tuition benefit to faculty and qualified dependents. Faculty can take up to six credits per semester at a reduced rate. Dependents of faculty have unlimited credits, but in order to be eligible children must be unmarried and under the age of 24 and must receive at least 50% of their financial support from the employee and/or employee’s spouse or domestic partner. 

About the College

The Honors College provides students with an education that nurtures and promotes students' capacities to think competently, understand deeply and act ethically. This university wide initiative encompasses all undergraduate majors. The College will have an enrollment of 1,300 students by Fall 2026 semester, up from 440 students at the Fall 2019 semester. The student population is a majority of STEM and Liberal Arts students. The University of Nevada, Reno is an institutional member of the National Collegiate Honors Council. The honors team collaborates with faculty, administrators, and the Honors Advisory Board in discipline specific academic programs to offer dynamic honors curriculum, smaller class sizes and an enhanced educational experience. The program recruits, admits, advises, and mentors honors students through their undergraduate degree programs and additionally offers alumni networking opportunities following graduation. The current Dean is tenured through the Honors College and a tenured track is available to Honors staff and faculty. The Honors initiative started in the early 1960’s at UNR and transitioned from a program to a full College in July of 2020. The Honors College occupies 2 floors of the Continuing Education building located on the UNR campus. The Honors College culture emphasizes collaboration, innovation, creativity, and teamwork in delivering our student-centered services. The Honors College is supported by our College Advocacy Board (CAB) made up of local residents and business and government executives. This 20+ person board supports the Dean and the Strategic Plan by mentoring students, driving fund raising events and programs and developing corporate sponsorships across Northern and Southern Nevada.

Contact Information

Exempt

Full-Time Equivalent

Required Attachment(s)

Please note that once you submit your application, the only attachment/s viewable to you will be the attachment/s to the resume/CV section of the application. Any additional required attachment/s to the cover letter, references, or additional documents sections of the application will not be viewable to you after you submit your application. All uploaded attachment/s will be on the application for the committee to review. To request updates to attachments before the committee review of applications, please contact the candidate helpdesk at jobs@unr.edu.

Please attach the following documents to your application:

1) Resume/CV

2) Cover Letter

3) Contact information for three professional references

This posting is open until filled

Qualified individuals are encouraged to apply immediately. This search will close without notice when a sufficient number of applications are received or a hiring decision has been made.

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