Director, McNair Scholars Program

🇺🇸 Bozeman, Montana 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $72K 💻 Administrator 🗓️ November 7th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Montana State University is hiring a Director, McNair Scholars Program. The director leads the federally funded McNair Scholars Program, which prepares first-generation and low-income undergraduates from underrepresented groups for doctoral study through faculty mentoring, undergraduate research, and graduate school preparation. The role serves as principal investigator on the program's US Department of Education grant and sets the vision for a program now entering the fourth year of a five-year grant cycle.

Highlights

Serve as principal investigator for the McNair grant, handling annual reporting, budget creation, grant writing, and grant management for the US Department of Education.
Oversee the McNair Scholars Program, recruit students into it, and supervise program staff with the help of a program coordinator and TRIO support staff.
Identify and partner with faculty research mentors, and coordinate the scholars' summer research projects.
Run graduate school preparatory workshops and seminars, and mentor scholars through the graduate school application process.
Maintain the program handbooks and the policy and procedures manual for recruiting, selecting, and training staff, students, and faculty mentors.
Track the academic and professional status of program alumni, share program outcomes, and act as liaison to the MSU and statewide TRIO community.
Hold a master's degree with professional experience in a college setting, budget and fiscal management experience, and grant writing or reporting experience; a Ph.D. and experience as a principal investigator on a federal grant are preferred.
Starting salary of $72,000 per year for a position at 0.75 to 1.0 FTE.