Program Manager, Academic Partnership & Grants

Texas Health Resources; Arlington (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

PTO

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Paid parental leave

Flex spending

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment

Job summary

Texas Health Resources is seeking a Program Manager for Academic Partnerships & Grants to coordinate workforce pipeline and scholarship initiatives within its Career Transformation Center. The role focuses on execution, partnership management, and grant-related activities across internal service lines and external academic partners.

You will collaborate with Nursing, Allied Health, and HR partners to align education strategies with tuition reimbursement, scholarships, and employee development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required.
• Four years of experience in education/learning assessment, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
• Grant experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate workforce pipeline and employee development programs within the Career Transformation Center.
• Manage relationships with schools and internal partners as part of Governance.
• Oversee partnership programs and initiatives and assist with grant writing and reporting.
• Deploy day-to-day services and ensure processes meet design specifications and outcomes.
• Collaborate across teams to learn from programs and drive improvement using structured plans.
• Align system-entity efforts to ensure coordinated, efficient education strategies.

Skills

Grant coordination

Partnership management

Program management

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/training/education

Job description

26010994

Program Manager, Academic Partnership & Grants

Bring your passion to THR so we are Better + Together!!

Work location: Hybrid - Remote work opportunity and will office at System Services in Arlington

Work hours: Monday - Friday from 8am - 5pm

Department Highlights

• The Program Manager, Pipeline Initiatives & Grants is responsible for the hands‑on coordination of workforce pipeline and employee development programs within the Career Transformation Center.
• This role supports program delivery by coordinating schedules, maintaining records, communicating with academic and industry partners, and assisting with grant‑related tracking and reporting.
• The position functions as an individual contributor focused on execution, organization, and program support rather than leadership or staff oversight.

Here’s What You Need

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Training and Education, Nursing, or relevant field required
• 4 years experience with responsibilities in the area of education /learning assessment, design, development, implementation, and evaluation required
• Previous grants experience preferred.

What You Will Do

The THRU Program Manager for Academic Partnerships & Grants oversees three key areas of work within Texas Health Resources University:

• Managing relationships with schools and key partners internally to Texas Health as a part of Governance;
• Overseeing key partnership programs and initiatives such as DEUs, CNL, AOBSN; and
• The writing of grants and scholarships in partnerships with local colleges/universities and/or other organizations for the purpose of building pipelines or reducing costs

The THRU Program Manager for Academic Partnerships & Grants partners with multiple service lines ensuring that processes are addressed and issue escalation occurs. Also works collaboratively with functional business areas (Nursing, Allied Health) as well as Human Resources Partners (Recruiting, Total Rewards) to ensure alignment between organization pipeline strategies, scholarship programs, tuition reimbursement, career development and employee transition programs.

Implement/Manage (Deploy)

• Ensures the day‑to‑day delivery of services and operation of work processes are meeting design specifications and achieving or exceeding customer/stakeholder requirements and outcomes (including quality and cost indicators), to consistently provide value.
• Manages governance process of grants requests or sources for funding as well as HOI team requests.
• Communicates ongoing assessment data and use in‑process measures, aligned with existing outcome measures, as early indicators of performance to manage and control work processes.
• Creates and monitors key goals, objectives, and measures key metrics relates to grants, partnership programs, and governance.

Evaluate & Improve (Learn)

• Collaborates across teams to oversee systematic cycles of learning on programs, grants, and partnerships. Creates tools, and resources, to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement based on relevant in‑process and outcome measures.
• Develops, implements, and monitors action plans to address opportunities (utilizing PDSA as the system improvement methodology).
• Identifies better/best practices from within and external to Texas Health and share and implement.

Align (Sustain)

• Participates in, and co‑facilitates, an ‘education network’ consisting of an Education governance structure, collaborative structures and approaches for entity‑system communication and coordination.
• Establishes and maintains partnerships with entity, zone and system leadership. Collaborate with key stakeholders (i.e. Performance Improvement, Population Health, etc.) to optimize system education/learning activities.
• Integrate services and processes - Understand system as well as entity needs, and align system-entity efforts to ensure a coordinated, efficient, and effective approach to achieving strategic and operational objectives.

Design/Redesign (Engage/Design)

• Identifies key customer/stakeholder requirements for academic partnership programs, grants, and other workforce development initiatives.
• Designs approaches programs in collaboration with others- based on Voice of the Customer/Workforce/Environment – for services and processes (“what’s important”)
• Defines clear outcomes for performance around key partnership strategies and grants (“how we’re doing relative to what’s important”) and programs as well as process metrics.
• Designs services and work processes to move through a request and governance process for new agreements. (“what we’re doing to address what’s important”)
• Participates in department planning to identify strategic initiatives and action plans to address system objectives. Translates these plans into operations through services and processes; demonstrate achievement of desired outcomes.

Additional Perks Of Being a Texas Health Employee

• Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment Program as well as several other benefits.
• At Texas Health, our people make this a great place to work every day. Our inclusive, supportive, people‑first, excellence‑driven culture make Texas Health a great place to work.
• A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.

Entity Highlights

Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith‑based, nonprofit health care delivery systems in the United States and the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served.

Texas Health has 25 acute‑care and short‑stay hospitals that are owned, operated, joint‑ventured or affiliated with the system. It has more than 3,800 licensed beds, more than 21,100 employees of fully owned/operated facilities plus 1,400 employees of consolidated joint ventures and counts more than 5,500 physicians with active staff privileges at its hospitals.

We invite you to join us in furthering your career through our accomplishments and philosophy of excellence.

Learn More About Our Culture, Benefits, And Recent Awards.

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