Program Manager - Constitutional Federalism Initiative

Salary: $59,899.00 - $70,470.00 Annually

Job Type: FT Exempt Salaried Staff

Job Number: FY2706681

Closing: 10/25/2026 11:59 PM Mountain

Location: Main Campus
- Orem

Division: VP Academic Affairs

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 position's continuation is contingent on available funding.

• Leads operational planning, execution, and follow-up for CFIconferences, summits, seminars, workshops, webinars, and related convenings involving public officials, scholars, institutionally 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…