Grant Program Manager, Future Ready Graduates

Arizona State University; Arizona; On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Arizona State University seeks a Grant Program Manager for the Future Ready Graduates initiative. This role oversees two active awards with potential expansion, translating grant agreements into actionable plans and coordinating between campuses, partners, and funders to ensure on-time delivery.

The position emphasizes organized project management, stakeholder communication, and rigorous progress tracking to meet funder requirements and program goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience or an equivalent mix of experience and training.
• Ability to manage multiple grant awards and coordinate with campuses, partners, and funders.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of two active Future Ready Graduates awards with potential to expand.
• Translate grant agreements, workplans and budgets into coordinated implementation plans.
• Develop and maintain project plans with milestones, owners and deadlines.
• Monitor progress, report on risks and resource needs, and ensure timely delivery.
• Coordinate overlapping activities across awards to create a cohesive portfolio.
• Support grant launch, implementation, reporting, evaluation, and closeout.
• Serve as primary campus contact for assigned projects and align campus deliverables.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce

Google Drive

Job description

Job Profile: Administrative Operations Specialist 3

Job Family: Administrative Operations

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.

Job Description:

Salary Range: $75,000 - $85,000 per year; DOE

About the University Innovation Alliance

The University Innovation Alliance is a national coalition of public research universities working together to improve student success and post graduate economic mobility, particularly for low-income students, first-generation college students, and students of color. UIA member institutions collaborate to design, test, refine, and scale practices that help more students persist, graduate, and successfully transition from college to careers. In 2025, the UIA aligned on expanded impact goals. One of the expanded goals is focused on improving value and mobility for students. The future ready graduates initiative is a direct result of the UIA now focusing on student success beyond degree completion. The UIA has secured 2 grant projects under this initiative and anticipates securing another 2 in the next year.

About Future Ready Graduates

Future Ready Graduates is UIA's portfolio of work focused on helping member institutions expand and improve the number of work based learning experiences available to students to support their career preparation and employment outcomes. Current FRG projects are focused on work integrated learning redesign (focus on internships and project based learning) and student employment redesign leveraging a partnership with the Work + team at ASU. Through coordinated grant-funded initiatives, UIA supports campuses in redesigning student experiences, improving access to meaningful paid opportunities, strengthening employer partnerships, and connecting work-based learning more directly to persistence, completion, and career outcomes.

Position Summary

The Grant Program Manager, Future Ready Graduates is responsible for the day-to-day delivery, implementation, coordination, and program management of UIA's Future Ready Graduates grant portfolio. The position will initially manage delivery of two active awards and may assume responsibility for up to two additional awards.The Program Manager will coordinate participating campuses, partners, consultants, employers, and internal UIA contributors to ensure that project activities are completed on time, meet funder commitments, and achieve the expected level of quality. This role will maintain project plans, monitor campus progress, facilitate meetings and events, organize employer feedback processes, maintain accurate records in Salesforce and Google Drive, and represent program implementation during funder meetings and written updates.The ideal candidate is a highly organized and collaborative program manager who can manage multiple grants and campus workstreams simultaneously. This person will be skilled at setting clear expectations, holding partners accountable, identifying risks early, and helping campus teams translate project requirements into practical implementation.

Key Responsibilities

Grant Portfolio Management

• Manage the implementation and operations of two active Future Ready Graduates awards, with the potential to manage up to two additional related awards.
• Translate grant agreements, workplans, budgets, milestones, and funder commitments into coordinated implementation plans.
• Develop and maintain project plans that identify activities, owners, deadlines, dependencies, decision points, and required deliverables.
• Monitor implementation across all assigned awards and provide regular updates on progress, risks, delays, and resource needs.

Ensure work is delivered on time, within the approved scope, and at the level of quality expected by UIA and its funding partners.

Coordinate overlapping activities and shared deliverables across awards so that the Future Ready Graduates portfolio operates as a cohesive body of work.

Support grant launch, implementation, reporting, evaluation, dissemination, and closeout activities.

Campus Implementation and Accountability

• Serve as a primary point of contact for campus teams participating in assigned Future Ready Graduates projects.
• Lead campus onboarding and establish clear expectations for participation, implementation, reporting, and deliverable quality.
• Help campuses translate grant requirements into campus-specific implementation plans, milestones, and workstreams.
• Monitor progress toward campus deliverables and follow up regular