GCU
Grant Administrator - Canyon Center for Character Education
Phoenix, AZ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
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About the role
- One of Arizona's leading institutions of higher learning.
- Located in the Valley of Sun in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona, GCU is a regionally accredited, private, nondenominational Christian University.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver training experiences, resources, and reflection tools that promote virtue formation and moral imagination across curricular and co-curricular settings including the curation and expansion of library resources, journal access, and other scholarly or research databases.
- Partner with Christian Character Champions (C3) to foster scholarly engagement, storytelling, and research initiatives in faith, character, and virtue.
- Lead the CCCE Research Grant Selection Committee, overseeing the full process from developing and publishing RFPs to reviewing, selecting, and managing funded proposals.
- Partner with the ORG to discover, recommend, and pursue targeted character and virtue grants in support of GCU's mission and larger grant initatives.
- Maintain organized documentation and dashboards of CCCE research activities, publications, and engagement measures.
- Explore and support the development of a new Christian Character Journal, collaborating with internal and external partners to establish editorial standards, submission processes, and publication strategy.
- Demonstrated excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate and communicate complex information in a professional, academic manner with the university community, business partners, administration, and students.
Nice to have
- Some demonstrated record of scholarship preferred, including publications in peer reviewed journals and presentations at academic conferences
- Program evaluation experience preferred.
- Analytical and project/process management skills.
- Must be able to successfully pass background checks.
Compensation
- Coordinate GCU's annual Christian Character Research Conference, coordinating logistics, speaker engagement, proposal review, and dissemination of scholarly outputs to strengthen CCCE's national profile.
Benefits
- Full benefits portfolio including tuition benefit
- Exceptional workplace benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, a 401K savings plan
- Generous time off plan and 11 paid holidays
- Paid time off to volunteer in the community or at GCU sponsored events
- We also offer full-time employees, their spouses, and dependent children an Education Tuition Discount Program
- Support faculty and student research projects that advance CCCE's mission and contribute to the broader field of Christian character education.
- Represent CCCE and GCU at conferences, events, and collaborative initiatives focused on Christian character education and human flourishing.
- Master's degree in social sciences, theology, education, or related field from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 3-years of experience teaching and/or administration in higher education.
This listing is sourced directly from GCU's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.