Specifications include, but are not limited to: Consultants to provide grant writing and proposal/application support to the University through federal grants and foundations. The University invites grant writers with substantive experience writing, submitting and securing grants for higher education institutions to apply. The primary focus of the work is to: 1. Identify opportunities and facilitate increasing federal, state, local and private foundation dollars for the University through the competitive grant process; 2. Assist the University to compete for federal and foundation grant dollars through the provision of professional grant-writing and other related grant services; and 3. Work directly with faculty and administrators in pursuit of external funding. Successful applicants will have demonstrated success in higher education grant writing and submission experience in one or more of the following areas: 1. Federal 2. State 3. Local 4. Private Foundations