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Research Services Support (45%)
- Coordinate the internal funding competitions, track and report use of these awards to secure future external funding.
- Coordinate research initiatives, and report participation in the initiatives and analyze data to determine their effectiveness.
- Coordinate meetings and School research events, such as junior faculty mentoring lunches, research visioning events, and proposal writing workshops, in consultation with the SoE event planner.
- Coordinate the Undergraduate Research Fellows (UGRF) Program, develop the programming, and stimulate external competitive graduate fellowship applications.
- Analyze proposal, award, and research expenditure data supplied by the KU Office of Research and provide the data and analysis to the SoE and the departments on a regular basis.
- Provide help preparing research reports, analyzing documents, scheduling, organizing meetings, and supervising undergraduate student assistants.
- Manage marketing campaigns to promote programs and faculty, staff, student, and alumni accomplishments and manage, update, and create web content for the research and graduate program sections of the SoE website in collaboration with the School's public relations and web development staff.
- Coordinate the Faculty Research Portfolio in collaboration with the School's public relations and web development staff.
- Work with the Associate Dean for Graduate and Online Education and departments to develop a strategic plan to recruit and support domestic and international graduate students.
- Serve as the point of contact for graduate student recruitment. Develop and organize SoE recruitment events, in support of departments, with a commitment to academic excellence; coordinate a School presence at local, regional, and national prospective student events, which may include some travel.
- Organize an SoE Open House to recruit prospective graduate students and advertise it regionally.
- Work with departments to manage travel arrangements for graduate student recruiting.
- Organize a regional undergraduate research conference, to expand recruitment efforts.
- Advertise undergraduate research opportunities, including Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs, to expand recruitment efforts.
- Collaborate with the Engineering Career Center and faculty to promote graduate school as a post-graduation opportunity.
- Serve as the Liaison for recruitment during the application process. Coordinate the admissions process and work with departments on communication to prospective and admitted students.
- Develop and organize orientation programing for new graduate students working with the Program Coordinator for Graduate Academic Services.
- Co-advise the Graduate Engineering Association (GEA) Graduate Ambassador Fellowship program, which includes selecting, training, and supervising fellows in collaboration with the Student Program Manager.
- Coordinate the graduate student professional development series, develop the professional development programming, and stimulate external competitive graduate fellowship applications.
- Coordinate community building events for graduate students in collaboration with the Student Program Manager.
- Work with departments to prepare the paperwork for potential online graduate degrees.
- Other duties as assigned by the Associate Dean for Research or the Associate Dean for Graduate and Online Education.