Program Manager - Constitutional Federalism Initiative

Program Manager - Constitutional Federalism Initiative

Salary

$59,899.00 - $70,470.00 Annually

Location

Main Campus - Orem

Job Type

FT Exempt Salaried Staff

Job Number

FY2706681

Division

VP Academic Affairs

Department

Center for Constitutional Studies

Opening Date

10/12/2026

Closing Date

10/25/2026 11:59 PM Mountain

First Review Date

10/19/2026

Required Documents Needed to Apply

Resume

Optional Documents

Cover Letter

Applicant Support

1-855-524-5627

Support@schooljobs.com

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Position Announcement

The CFI Program Manager (CFIPM) organizes and executes conferences, workshops, and seminars, builds stakeholder relationships, and streamlines processes to ensure the success of single- and multi-day events. The CFIPM collaborates on managing the education, podcast, and AI projects, including development and administering their delivery, assessment, and revision. They collaborate with elected and appointed officials in Utah and nationally, and coordinate with multiple participants, agencies, and organizations. They manage training platforms, coordinate with officials for scheduling, and oversee assessment tools to evaluate effectiveness and satisfaction. They oversee the budget, maintain digital and public-facing resources, supervise student employees, and may supervise research assistants, aligning team efforts with the objectives of the Constitutional Federalism Initiative. This positions continuation is contingent on available funding.

Summary of Responsibilities

• Leads operational planning, execution, and follow-up for CFI conferences, summits, seminars, workshops, webinars, and related convenings involving public officials, scholars, institutional leaders, partners, and other participants. Develops production plans, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, run-of-show documents, and contingency plans; coordinates registration, venues, lodging, transportation, food service, accessibility, participant logistics, materials, vendors, surveys, and post-event products. Advises the CFI Director on feasibility, cost, timing, capacity, and risk and escalates politically sensitive matters, major program changes, institutional commitments, and significant risks.
• Collaborates with the CFI Director, subject-matter experts, instructional designers, and content contributors to develop and maintain professional education on American federalism and intergovernmental relations. Manages the operational lifecycle of approved curricula, including version control, learning-management platforms, enrollment, participant communications, accessibility, testing, assessments, completion records, certificates, evaluation data, and scheduled revisions. Ensures approved curricular objectives remain coherent through production, delivery, assessment, and revision.
• Manages CFI's integrated portfolio of approved programs and projects. Establishes schedules, milestones, assignments, dependencies, and reporting processes; monitors progress and capacity; recommends priority adjustments; and manages approved contractors and vendors. Coordinates media and AI-enabled projects, including schedules, approval routing, testing, quality assurance, documentation, and maintenance. Maintains collaborative relationships with the Utah Federalism Commission and key partners through regular communication, shared planning, operational materials, decision and action records, and program coordination. Maintains procedures, project files, records, templates, calendars, and transition materials for institutional continuity and escalates matters affecting scope, content, institutional authority, budget, workload, or reputational risk.
• Analyzes program budgets and coordinates the inflow and expenditure of funds in compliance with UVU policies and applicable law. Coordinates procurement, approved expenditures, contracts, invoices, and vendor performance; maintains required financial and operational records; and identifies financial or compliance concerns requiring review. Coordinates the creation, review, publication, maintenance, and evaluation of CFI's digital and public-facing resources, including reports, training webpages, the Federalism Toolbox, agency-engagement resources, publications, podcasts and media products, databases, and AI-enabled tools. Coordinates with university technology, instructional design, communications, legal, procurement, accessibility, and records personnel and supports GRAMA and university records-retention obligations.
• Participates in recruiting and hiring student employees and provides training, supervision, and support to ensure high-quality performance and compliance with UVU policies and procedures. Performs other job-related duties as assigned by the CFI Director, consistent with the position's professional level, institutional role, and approved priorities.

Qualifications / Licenses / Certifications

Graduation from an accredited institution with a bachelors degree in a related field plus 4 years of related experience, OR an equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the Summary of Duties totaling at least 8 years.

For Example:

• Bachelors degree in a related field (approximately 120 college credits) plus 4 years of related experience.
• OR a masters degree in a related field (approximately 150 college credits) plus 2 years of related experience.
• OR four years of completed college coursework (approximately 120 college credits) plus 4 years of related experience.
• OR three years of completed college coursework (approximately 90 college credits) plus 5 years of related experience.
• OR an associate degree in a related field (approximately 60 college credits) plus 6 years of related experience.
• OR two years of completed college coursework (approximately 60 college credits) plus 6 years of related experience.
• OR one year of completed college coursework (approximately 30 college credits) plus 7 years of related experience.
• OR a high school diploma or equivalent plus 8 years of related experience.

Experience should demonstrate at least four of the following: management of multiple complex projects (mandatory); production of large, multiday, or national events; administration of training or professional-education programs; budget analysis, procurement, or contract coordination; supervision of employees, students, or contractors; work with government officials or senior institutional leaders; management of external partnerships; digital-content, knowledge-resource, or publication management; work requiring discretion in politically or institutionally sensitive environments; and coursework or demonstrated familiarity with federalism, constitutional studies, or intergovernmental affairs.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

Knowledge

• Knowledge of advanced program, project, and event-management principles.

• Knowledge of budget analysis, procurement, contracting, travel, and vendor-management processes.

• Knowledge of multiple dissemination modalities or professional-education delivery and assessment.

• Knowledge of digital content, records, knowledge management, and publication practices.

• Knowledge of the professional and ethical considerations involved in working with elected and appointed officials.

• Working knowledge of American federalism and intergovernmental relations.

• Working knowledge of AI-enabled tools and associated quality, privacy, security, and governance concerns.

Skills

• Advanced planning, organization, prioritization, and project-management skills.

• Strong written and oral communication.

• Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills.

• Budget analysis and financial tracking skills.

• Staff, contractor, and vendor-management skills.

• Meeting, event, and production-management skills.

• Sound judgment in sensitive or ambiguous circumstances.

• Document, data, and version-control skills.

• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and prioritization skills.

• Competent with Microsoft 365, project-management systems, learning platforms, web-content systems, and related digital tools.

• Creative, innovative, and detail-oriented.

Abilities

• Manage multiple complex projects with competing deadlines.

• Work independently within defined authority.

• Coordinate effectively with public officials, scholars, university units, contractors, and national partners.

• Effectively administer an account with external expenditures, ensuring adherence to national, state, and university laws and policies.

• Distinguish routine operational matters from issues requiring supervisory or institutional judgment.

• Maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion.

• Supervise personnel and manage contractor performance.

• Travel and work occasionally in the evenings or on weekends during major events and critical project periods.

EEO Statement:

UVU employment decisions are made on the basis of an applicant's qualifications and ability to perform the job without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 and over), disability, veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth, or pregnancy-related conditions, genetic information, or other bases protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Utah Valley University's dedication to exceptional care offers quality service and benefits to employees while staying committed to meeting the needs of a diverse workforce.

UVU is pleased to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that supports employees and their family's overall physical and mental health, protects their income in case of unforeseen illness and life events, and assists in building financial security for retirement and the future.

Highlights from Utah Valley University's benefits package include:

• Medical network and plan options with low employee premiums
• Employer HSA contribution for those that elect the university's High-Deductible Health Plan
• Other tax advantage, reimbursement account options (i.e. Flexible Spending Account & Dependent Care)
• Dental and vision plan options
• Incentivized wellness program
• Employer paid basic life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D), and Long Term Disability (LTD) coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(a) Defined Contribution Plan with an employer contribution of 14.2% based on employee's compensation (100% vested on first day of full-time employment)
• Undergraduate tuition remission benefit waiving up to 18 credit hours (each semester) for employees and their eligible dependents (spouses & children dependents unmarried and up to age 26)
• Generous leave package which includes sick, vacation (staff only), and personal leave; 13 paid holidays; paid medical maternity and parental leave

For more information about the benefits offered, visit https://www.uvu.edu/peopleandculture/benefits.

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Do you meet the minimum requirements for this position as outlined? Graduation from an accredited institution with a bachelors degree in a related field plus four years of related experience, OR an equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the Summary of Duties totaling at least 8 years. FOR EXAMPLE: • Bachelors degree in a related field (approximately 120 college credits) plus 4 years of related experience. • OR a masters degree in a related field (approximately 150 college credits) plus 2 years of related experience. • OR four years of completed college coursework (approximately 120 college credits) plus 4 years of related experience. • OR three years of completed college coursework (approximately 90 college credits) plus 5 years of related experience. • OR an associate degree in a related field (approximately 60 college credits) plus 6 years of related experience. • OR two years of completed college coursework (approximately 60 college credits) plus 6 years of related experience. • OR one year of completed college coursework (approximately 30 college credits) plus 7 years of related experience. • OR a high school diploma or equivalent plus 8 years of related experience.

• Yes
• No

02

What is your highest level of education?

• High School or equivalent
• Associates
• Bachelors
• Masters
• Ph.D.
• Ph.D. (abd)
• Juris Doctorate

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How many years of experience do you have in this type of position?

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• 1
• 2
• 3
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• 8+

04

Are you able to travel and work occasional evenings and weekends as needed to support major events, conferences, programs, and critical project deadlines?

• Yes
• No

05

Do you have experience managing multiple complex projects simultaneously, including coordinating timelines, stakeholders, resources, and deliverables?

• Yes
• No

06

Do you have experience planning, coordinating, or producing large-scale, multi-day, regional, national, or similar events?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have experience administering training programs, professional development initiatives, continuing education programs, or workforce development activities?

• Yes
• No

08

Do you have experience supervising employees, student workers, interns, volunteers, contractors, or project teams?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have experience with budget analysis, financial tracking, procurement processes, purchasing, contract administration, or vendor coordination?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have experience working directly with government officials, executive leaders, senior administrators, board members, or other high-level institutional stakeholders?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have experience developing, managing, or maintaining partnerships with external organizations, businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, or community partners?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have experience managing digital content, publications, websites, databases, knowledge resources, reports, newsletters, or similar information repositories?

• Yes
• No

13

Do you have experience handling sensitive, confidential, politically sensitive, or institutionally sensitive matters requiring sound judgment and discretion?

• Yes
• No

14

Have you completed coursework or do you have demonstrated knowledge of federalism, constitutional studies, public policy, political science, intergovernmental affairs, or closely related subjects?

• Yes
• No

Required Question

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