Program Manager, Academic Partnership & Grants

Texas Health Resources•Arlington, TX

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Program Manager for Academic Partnerships & Grants oversees academic partnerships, workforce pipeline initiatives, and grant and scholarship activity within Texas Health Resources University and the Career Transformation Center. The role coordinates relationships with schools and internal partners, manages partnership programs and initiatives such as DEUs, CNL, and AOBSN, and collaborates with local colleges, universities, and other organizations on grants and scholarships intended to build workforce pipelines or reduce costs. This individual contributor role supports day-to-day program delivery, governance, assessment, and improvement. The Program Manager works across service lines and functional areas—including Nursing, Allied Health, Recruiting, and Total Rewards—to align pipeline strategies, scholarships, tuition reimbursement, career development, and employee transition programs. The position is hybrid, with remote work available and office work at System Services in Arlington, and is scheduled Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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 governance.
Oversee 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 service lines to address processes and escalate issues when needed.
Collaborate with Nursing, Allied Health, Recruiting, and Total Rewards to align pipeline strategies, scholarships, tuition reimbursement, career development, and employee transition programs.
Ensure day-to-day services and work processes meet design specifications and stakeholder requirements, including quality and cost indicators.
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 related to grants, partnership programs, and governance.
Coordinate systematic learning cycles for programs, grants, and partnerships; create tools and resources to identify strengths and improvement opportunities.
Develop, implement, and monitor action plans using PDSA as the system improvement methodology.
Identify and share better practices from within and outside Texas Health, and support their implementation.
Participate in and co-facilitate an education network involving education governance and entity-system communication and coordination.
Establish and maintain partnerships with entity, zone, and system leadership, and collaborate with stakeholders such as Performance Improvement and Population Health.
Integrate services and processes to align system and entity needs and support coordinated achievement of strategic and operational objectives.
Identify customer and stakeholder requirements for academic partnership programs, grants, and workforce development initiatives.
Design programs and approaches collaboratively, informed by the voice of the customer, workforce, and 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, translate strategic initiatives into operational services and processes, and demonstrate achievement of desired outcomes.