Program Manager, Academic Partnership & Grants

Texas Health•Arlington, TX

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Program Manager, Academic Partnership & Grants coordinates academic partnerships, workforce pipeline and employee development programs, and grant-related activities within Texas Health Resources University and the Career Transformation Center. The role manages relationships with schools and internal partners, oversees partnership programs and initiatives, and supports grants and scholarships with local colleges, universities, and other organizations to build workforce pipelines or reduce costs. This individual-contributor role focuses on program execution, organization, and support rather than staff oversight. It works with multiple service lines and functional teams, including Nursing, Allied Health, Recruiting, and Total Rewards, to align pipeline strategies, scholarship programs, tuition reimbursement, career development, and employee transition programs. The role also supports governance, program assessment and improvement, stakeholder communication, and coordination between entity and system teams.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Training and Education, Nursing, or a relevant field.
Four years of experience with responsibilities in education or learning assessment, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.

Nice To Haves

Previous grants experience.

Responsibilities

Manage relationships with schools and internal Texas Health partners as part of the governance process.
Oversee academic partnership programs and initiatives, including DEUs, CNL, and AOBSN.
Write grants and scholarships in partnership with local colleges, universities, and other organizations to build workforce pipelines or reduce costs.
Partner with multiple service lines to address processes and escalate issues as needed.
Collaborate with Nursing, Allied Health, Recruiting, and Total Rewards to align pipeline strategies, scholarship programs, tuition reimbursement, career development, and employee transition programs.
Manage day-to-day delivery of services and work processes to meet design specifications and stakeholder requirements, including quality and cost outcomes.
Manage governance processes for grant requests, funding sources, and HOI team requests.
Communicate assessment data and use in-process measures as early indicators of performance.
Create and monitor goals, objectives, and metrics for grants, partnership programs, and governance.
Collaborate across teams to review programs, grants, and partnerships and identify strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Develop, implement, and monitor action plans using PDSA as the system improvement methodology.
Identify and share better or best practices from within and outside Texas Health, and support their implementation.
Participate in and co-facilitate an education network for education governance and entity-system communication and coordination.
Establish and maintain partnerships with entity, zone, and system leadership.
Collaborate with stakeholders such as Performance Improvement and Population Health to optimize system education and learning activities.
Integrate services and processes to align system and entity efforts with strategic and operational objectives.
Identify customer and stakeholder requirements for academic partnership programs, grants, and workforce development initiatives.
Design programs and processes collaboratively, using input from customers, the workforce, and the environment.
Define outcomes and process metrics for partnership strategies, grants, and programs.
Design services and work processes for requests and governance of new agreements.
Participate in department planning, identify strategic initiatives and action plans, and translate plans into operational services and processes.