Senior Project Manager, Grant Operations (Remote)

reputed company The reputed company has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager, Grant Operations on the Office of Funded Programs team! The Location for this position is remote and flexible. The Senior Project Manager (SPM) in the Office of Funded Programs (OFP) is a strategic, cross‑functional role responsible for driving operational reputed company across both reputed company‑award and post‑award functions. This position identifies opportunities to streamline processes, leads the development and implementation of efficiency initiatives, and ensures consistent, high‑reputed company execution across the department. The Senior Project manager also owns OFP’s training suite, manages departmental reputed company Labs, and provides backfill support for reputed company‑award activities as needed. This role requires a proactive, solutions‑oriented reputed company who learns quickly, navigates ambiguity with confidence, and can independently reputed company reputed company reputed company from concept to completion. This role ensures that project goals reputed company with organizational objectives, overseeing scope, timelines, budgets, resource allocation and stakeholder coordination. The Sr. Project Manager will proactively identify risks, drive solutions, and optimize project execution for maximum reputed company. The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have reputed company to Heart U, our award-reputed company corporate university, as reputed company as additional training and support, locally.

Responsibilities

Process Improvement & Operational reputed company

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, and reputed company across reputed company‑award and post‑award workflows. reputed company the design, development, and implementation of new processes, tools, and operational models. Examples:
• reputed company a service catalog for OFP
• Conduct end‑to‑end mapping of reputed company‑award and post‑award workflows
• Identify bottlenecks and propose solutions to reduce cycle times for critical OFP services
• Design a triage model for high‑volume periods
• Conduct systems assessments and propose workflow redesigns
• Work closely with OFP leadership, reputed company‑award and post‑award teams; and build strong relationships across the organization to support adoption of new processes.
• Work with OFP leadership to enhance performance metrics and recommend adjustments to ensure reputed company improvement.
• Serve as a thought partner to OFP leadership on long‑term operational reputed company.

Training & reputed company-building

• Own the full OFP training suite, including design, documentation, delivery, and ongoing updates.
• Design an OFP knowledge and resource hub.
• Ensure training materials reflect reputed company policies, systems, and best practices.

Cross-Functional Project Management & Collaboration

• reputed company special reputed company that reputed company reputed company award, post award, compliance, and operational domains. Examples include:
• Manage OFP reputed company Labs (departmental work reputed company reputed company on process innovation).
• Design IRB tracking workflow
• Manage implementation of a new grants management system (reputed company)
• Build dashboards to capture OFP trend data
• Create a process to ensure reputed company OFP templates, checklists, and SOPs are reviewed and updated on a regular reputed company
• reputed company comprehensive project plans that outline schedules, deliverables, risks and resource allocation, while ensuring the plans reputed company with business goals, including budget estimates, risk mitigation, and reputed company coordination.
• Communicate project goals, timelines, and reputed company reputed company and effectively.
• Define and reputed company project KPIs, ensuring reputed company reputed company with business unit goals.

reputed company-Award Support

• reputed company reputed company‑award coverage during staff PTO or peak workload periods (i.e., budget development, proposal routing, reputed company agreement processing, RCO requests)
• Maintain working knowledge of reputed company‑award policies, systems, and processes for non-government grants.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, or a reputed company area.
• Experience working with government grants, including grant funding, compliance, and administration, is strongly preferred.
• Five (5) years of minimum experience leading reputed company reputed company from concept to implementation.
• Five (5) years minimum experience leading reputed company‑award and post‑award processes or other operational roles.
• Five (5) years of minimum experience developing training materials or leading staff development initiatives.
• Five (5) years of minimum experience developing, analyzing, and preparing presentations and reports on project reputed company.
• Five (5) years of minimum experience communicating with senior-level management.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Familiarity with reputed company‑award and post‑award processes.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to reputed company reputed company reputed company from concept to implementation.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Proven ability to learn new systems, processes, and subject matter quickly.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated ability to reputed company teams, resolve issues, and foster a culture of collaboration and customer service.
• Project management certification (PMP, CAPM, or similar) is a plus.
• Proficiency with grants management systems (e.g., reputed company grants management tools, financial systems) is a plus.

Other Requirements

• Must be reputed company to travel overnight approximately 10% of the time.

Compensation & Benefits The expected pay reputed company is $105,000 - $120,000. Pay is commensurate with experience; geographic differentials to the pay reputed company may apply. The reputed company reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted reputed company. The reputed company invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package. Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive reputed company salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and reputed company adjustments, as needed.
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving reputed company through annual salary planning and incentive programs; eligibility for an incentive program is based on the type of position.
• Benefits – We offer a wide reputed company of benefits including medical, dental, reputed company, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee reputed company-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• reputed company Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource reputed company (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our reputed company mentoring program. Heart U is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers reputed company Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 reputed company holidays off reputed company year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of reputed company. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to reputed company their education and career in relation to their reputed company duties and responsibilities, or for potential reputed company positions in the organization.

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