Program/Project Manager, NSF Carolinas Grid Engine

🇺🇸 Charlotte, North Carolina 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $100K - $115K 💻 Project Management 🗓️ October 16th, 2026

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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is hiring a Program/Project Manager for the NSF Carolinas Grid Engine. The role involves providing daily project management and operational support, maintaining project plans and schedules, coordinating NSF reporting, supporting budget and financial monitoring, managing grants and contracts administration, and organizing meetings and events across multiple partners in a complex federal initiative.

Highlights

Manage project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables across Engine workstreams including research, workforce development, ecosystem development, and partnerships.

Use Airtable as the central project-management and performance-tracking platform to monitor progress and risks.

Coordinate NSF quarterly and annual report preparation, compliance, and deadline tracking.

Support budget monitoring, financial reporting, and resource allocation planning in coordination with leadership and university finance staff.

Serve as liaison with university Office of Research Administration for grants, contracts, subawards, and partner agreements.

Plan and execute meetings, convenings, and events in collaboration with Marketing and Communications.

Requires Bachelor's degree in business administration, project management, engineering, public administration, communications, or related field and at least three years of complex multi-stakeholder project management experience.