Grant Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree; alternatively, an Associate’s degree plus two years of related work experience may be substituted for the required education, in addition to the required experience.
• Three years of related professional experience.
• Knowledge of project management principles, practices, and tools; program implementation, coordination, and continuous improvement; higher education and/or healthcare operations; clinical education environments and healthcare workforce partnerships; stakeholder engagement; data collection and reporting; grant-funded project requirements; milestone, deliverable, performance-indicator, and risk tracking; student-centered higher education practices; and basic budget and resource management.
• Ability to manage complex projects and changing priorities using detailed plans, timelines, dashboards, and operational workflows.
• Ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships across departments, clinical partners, faculty, staff, students, and community organizations, both independently and on cross-functional teams.
• Ability to facilitate meetings, collect and analyze data, and prepare clear professional summaries, presentations, and decision documentation for different audiences using tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to work effectively with people who champion student-centered practices.
• Sound judgment, professional integrity, and discretion in handling sensitive or confidential information.
• Technology skills using spreadsheet, word processing, database, presentation, project management, and collaboration software, including technology for dashboards, work plans, milestones, documentation, and virtual and in-person collaboration.
• The role may require travel to ACC campuses and affiliated clinical partner locations; standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling; and occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.
• Some early morning, evening, or nontraditional hours may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in nursing, healthcare administration, higher education, public administration, business administration, project management, or a related field.
• Experience leading program management, project coordination, and cross-functional initiatives in higher education, healthcare, workforce development, or clinical education.
• Experience cultivating and maintaining strategic partnerships with hospitals, healthcare systems, clinical agencies, employers, and external community organizations.
• Experience coordinating clinical education, practicums, internships, and work-based learning aligned with healthcare workforce needs.
• Experience overseeing grant-funded projects, including project-management tool implementation, performance monitoring, dashboard tracking, and compliance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and monitor the NightShift+ project work plan, timelines, and operational dashboard.
• Track deliverables and maintain risk and issue logs; identify operational barriers and implement corrective strategies to meet grant milestones on schedule.
• Serve as the primary operational contact for hospitals, healthcare systems, and clinical agencies; build relationships, support clinical affiliation agreements, resolve operational issues, and coordinate clinical capacity needs.
• Coordinate with Nursing faculty and leadership on clinical scheduling, student assignments, and academy activities in alignment with curriculum requirements, student learning needs, and clinical practices.
• Collect, organize, and maintain project data for grant management, evaluation, and compliance.
• Assist in drafting monthly, interim, annual, and final reports for the Project Director, grant evaluator, and institutional stakeholders.
• Work with Purchasing, Contracts, IT, Facilities, Communications, and other college departments to manage project resources.
• Plan, schedule, and facilitate project meetings; document decisions and follow up on action items.
• Document implementation processes, best practices, and lessons learned to support grant sustainability and model expansion.
• Perform other related project duties as assigned.