Program Manager, Academic Partnership & Grants

Job ID: 26010994 | Hybrid role: remote with office at System Services in Arlington | Monday–Friday, 8:00 am–5:00 pm

About the Role

The Program Manager, Pipeline Initiatives & Grants coordinates workforce pipeline and employee development programs within the Career Transformation Center. This individual-contributor role focuses on execution, organization, and program support — coordinating schedules, maintaining records, communicating with academic and industry partners, and assisting with grant-related tracking and reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Training and Education, Nursing, or a relevant field (required)
• 4 years of experience in education/learning assessment, design, development, implementation, and evaluation (required)
• Previous grants experience (preferred)

Responsibilities

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

• Managing relationships with schools and key internal partners as part of Governance
• Overseeing partnership programs and initiatives such as DEUs, CNL, AOBSN
• Writing grants and scholarships in partnership with local colleges/universities and other organizations to build pipelines or reduce costs

The role partners with multiple service lines to ensure processes are addressed and issues escalated, and collaborates with functional areas (Nursing, Allied Health) and HR partners (Recruiting, Total Rewards) to align pipeline strategies, scholarship programs, tuition reimbursement, career development, and employee transition programs.

Implement & Manage

• Ensure day-to-day delivery of services and operation of work processes meet design specifications and achieve or exceed customer/stakeholder requirements and outcomes (including quality and cost indicators)
• Manage governance process for grant requests, funding sources, and HOI team requests
• Communicate ongoing assessment data and in-process measures aligned with existing outcome measures as early indicators of performance
• Create and monitor key goals, objectives, and metrics related to grants, partnership programs, and governance

Evaluate & Improve

• Collaborate across teams to oversee systematic learning cycles on programs, grants, and partnerships
• Create tools and resources to identify strengths and improvement opportunities based on in-process and outcome measures
• Develop, implement, and monitor action plans to address opportunities using PDSA as the system improvement methodology
• Identify better/best practices from within and outside Texas Health and share and implement them

Align & Sustain

• Participate in and co-facilitate an “education network” consisting of governance structures, collaborative approaches, and entity-system communication and coordination
• Establish and maintain partnerships with entity, zone, and system leadership
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (Performance Improvement, Population Health, etc.) to optimize system education/learning activities
• Integrate services and processes by understanding system and entity needs and aligning system-entity efforts for coordinated, efficient, effective achievement of strategic and operational objectives

Design & Redesign

• Identify key customer/stakeholder requirements for academic partnership programs, grants, and workforce development initiatives
• Design programs collaboratively based on Voice of the Customer/Workforce/Environment (“what’s important”)
• Define clear performance outcomes for partnership strategies and grants (“how we’re doing relative to what’s important”) and associated program and process metrics
• Design services and work processes to move through a request and governance process for new agreements (“what we’re doing to address what’s important”)
• Participate in department planning to identify strategic initiatives and action plans addressing system objectives; translate plans into operations and demonstrate achievement of desired outcomes

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible spending accounts
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Additional benefits

About Texas Health Resources

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 by patients served. The system includes 25 acute-care and short-stay hospitals (owned, operated, joint-ventured, or affiliated), more than 3,800 licensed beds, over 21,100 employees at fully owned/operated facilities plus 1,400 employees at consolidated joint ventures, and more than 5,500 physicians with active staff privileges.