Research Program Manager - Information Trust Institute

Research Program Manager

Information Trust Institute
The Grainger College of Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The Information Trust Institute is a world-leading institution with a focus on creating more trustworthy critical infrastructure. It has been a central part of over $200M of innovation in cyber-physical research over the past decade and continues to advance the state of understanding in this field. Beyond academic publication, ITI researchers work on putting their solutions into practice and working to get them deployed in the real world.

The Information Trust Institute in The Grainger College of Engineering seeks applicants for a Research Program Manager position. This position works closely with ITI leadership and staff to support research and program management activities that require a high level of detailed program management, communication and organization skills, and is responsible for planning, overseeing, resourcing, supporting and leading multiple projects from ideation through timely completion.

This role requires continuous interaction with a range of internal and external stakeholders occurring throughout a process that demands simultaneous management of various moving parts while also balancing disparate interests and priorities all to ensure identified objectives are met and specific deliverables are completed timely and on budget. In concert with the above, this role will create, maintain and make available status reports as needed to communicate ongoing progress and metrics through use of available tools and programs while assessing efficiency and effectiveness of workflow.

• Manage day-to-day operations for assigned research projects, including execution of short- and long-term goals that maximize timely deliverables.
• Monitor and respond to action items and stakeholder requests to ensure appropriate progress while coordinating with research teams and ITI leadership.
• Schedule, facilitate, and attend meetings, including finalizing agendas and communicating and coordinating deliverables.
• Assist in development of project plans to monitor and track progress of varying projects.
• Participate in establishing goals, maintaining timelines, and ensuring resources are directed efficiently toward achieving objectives.
• Draft and publish progress reports and project status reviews with project stakeholders for assigned projects.
• Maintain and organize project documents, records, data, and archives.
• Utilize tracking, analysis, assessment tools, or other resources to evaluate effectiveness of processes, programs, and activities associated with assigned projects.
• Support program office and planning activities such as development of program plans, development of statements of work and basic ordering agreement task orders.
• Support assigned education and training programs for new and existing initiatives.
• Track and report on fund expenditures for projects being managed
• Track progress of program deliverables, tasks, and milestone achievement to meet program deadlines and to ensure efficiency and success, including budgets, resourcing and workflow.
• Serve as a liaison between project staff and other stakeholders, including those at other institutions, to facilitate the accomplishments of goals, objectives and milestones for projects.
• Communicate changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Collaborate with and support other program managers and senior program managers as needed to meet the overall needs of ITI and CIRI.
• Report and escalation to management as needed to address program risk management.
• Perform other program and project management tasks as needed.

• Support Communication efforts and drive communication management via written or verbal communication of project goals, project status, issues, actions, and risks to internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicate with funding sponsors, industrial advisory board members, research faculty, students, and staff as need to support active research and program management.
• Assist with identifying, promoting, supporting industry collaboration and mutually beneficial strategic partnerships and opportunities.
• Respond to sponsor contacts as needed to meet program objectives.
• Assist with event management and coordination activities in support of sponsor programs.

• Assist with the creation and support of educational…