This role operates in close collaboration with executive leadership, the Senior Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Marketing & CMO, Academic Deans, faculty researchers, the O'Brien Center for Career Development, and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs to translate institutional initiatives into competitive funding proposals. The only Catholic, Augustinian institution of higher education in New England, Merrimack College is a private, independent, coeducational institution with more than 4,100 undergraduate, 2,500 graduate students and 50 doctoral students from 48 states and 63 countries.