Grant Program Manager – Future Ready Graduates

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🌵 Arizona – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote

💵 $75k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

⚪️ Entry-level

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Arizona State University is a comprehensive public research university committed to providing accessible, high-quality education and serving learners at every stage of life. ASU operates multiple campuses and online programs, advances discovery and innovation through research, technology transfer, and strategic partnerships, and emphasizes sustainability, entrepreneurship, and community engagement across a wide range of disciplines including health, AI, cybersecurity, and the sciences.

📋 Description

• Manage implementation and operations of two active Future Ready Graduates awards, with potential responsibility for up to two additional awards • Translate grant agreements, workplans, budgets, milestones, and funder commitments into coordinated implementation plans • Develop and maintain project plans covering activities, owners, deadlines, dependencies, decision points, and deliverables • Monitor implementation, progress, risks, delays, resource needs, scope, and quality across assigned awards • Coordinate participating campuses, partners, consultants, employers, and internal UIA contributors • Serve as primary point of contact for participating campus teams • Lead campus onboarding and establish expectations for participation, reporting, implementation, and deliverable quality • Monitor campus deliverables and address missed deadlines, incomplete work, and implementation barriers • Coordinate coaching, technical assistance, and problem-solving support • Recruit and engage employers as project advisors, co-design partners, and feedback sources • Establish employer feedback loops and plan listening sessions, validation meetings, and feedback activities • Plan and coordinate project meetings, campus working sessions, communities of practice, workshops, employer sessions, and in-person convenings • Develop agendas, participant materials, timelines, run-of-show documents, and follow-up communications • Facilitate meetings and working sessions and coordinate external facilitation • Prepare funder updates, project summaries, briefing materials, talking points, continuation requests, change requests, final reports, and closeout materials • Maintain complete project records in Salesforce and Google Drive, including calendars, trackers, contact lists, milestones, deliverables, decisions, risks, and employer engagement • Track grant milestones, deliverables, participation targets, implementation updates, feedback, supporting documentation, and intended outcomes • Coordinate data collection with campuses, partners, and evaluators • Identify implementation barriers, promising practices, and success conditions • Develop case studies, playbooks, implementation guides, employer-feedback resources, and dissemination materials • Design evaluation frameworks, data collection instruments, templates, surveys, interview protocols, rubrics, dashboards, and reporting processes • Design AI-enabled workflows that transform institutional data into actionable insights and scalable evaluation processes • Coordinate across program, learning, development, finance, operations, communications, and campus-engagement functions • Coordinate budgets, campus stipends, contracts, grant-related financial processes, communications, storytelling, and dissemination • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved • 3–5 years of relevant experience in program management, grant implementation, higher education, workforce development, student success, or a related area • Experience managing multiple complex projects or grants with overlapping milestones and stakeholder groups • Strong experience managing workplans, deliverables, deadlines, risks, and cross-functional dependencies • Ability to hold partners and participating teams accountable while maintaining constructive, collaborative relationships • Experience organizing and facilitating meetings, convenings, workshops, or communities of practice • Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through • Ability to manage several active workstreams and adjust priorities in a fast-paced environment • Ability to work independently while maintaining consistent communication across a distributed team • Commitment to improving career readiness and postsecondary outcomes for students • Experience using Salesforce, Google Workspace, and project-management platforms • Experience working in a remote team environment • Experience with student employment, paid work-based learning, internships, career readiness, experiential learning, or employer engagement • Experience managing a portfolio of related grants or initiatives • Experience working with employer partners and developing structured feedback or advisory processes • Familiarity with design thinking, human-centered design, service design, process mapping, or journey mapping • Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools to support institutional evaluation, research, evidence synthesis, and continuous improvement • Cover letter and resume or CV required • Applications must include employment information in month and year format, job title, duties, and employer name • Employment contingent upon successful criminal background check and fingerprint check

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time, grant-funded position expected to continue for two years • Comprehensive benefits package • Relocation assistance resources • Tobacco-free university • Pre-employment screening and fingerprint check required for safety/security-sensitive position

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