Project Manager II, ECE Administration

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, training and internal pay comparison. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Full-Time/Regular

The Project Manager is responsible for managing grant compliance and reporting requirements for major federal funding agencies like the NIH, NSF, and DARPA. The role involves defining project scopes, timelines, budgets, and deliverables for internal lab initiatives and partner collaborations, while actively managing and promoting the DAMP Lab 'Membership' program to recruit and retain commercial partners. Additionally, the manager promotes the lab at industry conferences and events, collaborates with technical staff to engage partners, and assists leadership with sponsored research proposals and grant applications.

The position also requires coordinating stakeholder meetings, working with legal and tech transfer teams to manage agreements like NDAs, MTAs, and Data Use Agreements, and tracking key lab performance metrics such as active memberships, project completion rates, and publication or patent outputs.

Essential Functions:

• Grant Management & Regulatory Compliance:
  Serves as the primary administrative point of contact for the DAMP Lab's federal grant portfolio, managing all technical and financial reporting obligations to sponsoring agencies including the NIH, NSF, and DARPA. Independently tracks award terms, deliverable schedules, and reporting deadlines across multiple concurrent awards, and prepares progress reports, no-cost extension requests, and other sponsor deliverables in coordination with lab leadership and BU's Sponsored Programs office.
  
  Partners with leadership on the development of sponsored research proposals and grant applications, coordinating budget preparation, subaward documentation, and other required components to ensure on-time, compliant submission. Monitors changes to federal funding regulations, agency guidelines, and institutional policy, and proactively adjusts lab documentation and reporting practices to maintain compliance and protect the lab's funding eligibility.
• Partner Engagement & Membership Program Management:
  Owns the day-to-day operation and growth of the DAMP Lab “Membership” program, the lab's principal mechanism for engaging commercial partners and generating recurring non-federal revenue. Develops and executes recruitment strategies to identify and cultivate prospective industrial members, leads introductory meetings and capability presentations, and manages onboarding from initial inquiry through executed agreement. Serves as the ongoing relationship manager for the active member portfolio, conducting regular check-ins, resolving service issues, tracking satisfaction, and coordinating renewals in order to maximize retention.
  
  Works closely with technical staff and scientific leadership to translate partner requirements into feasible laboratory workflows and to ensure that member-facing commitments align with the lab's technical capacity and scheduling constraints.
• Project Scope, Schedule, & Budget Oversight:
  Defines and documents project scopes, timelines, budgets, resource requirements, and deliverables for internal lab initiatives and externally sponsored partner collaborations. Builds and maintains project plans in the lab's project management systems, sequencing tasks across technical staff and automation equipment and monitoring progress against milestones to keep multiple concurrent projects on schedule. Tracks…