Program & Portfolio Manager

Job Title: Program & Portfolio Manager

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Job ID: 297002

About Us Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

This position supports multifaceted, cross-functional programs and portfolios by providing operational coordination, data tracking and reporting, process improvement, communications, and compliance-related support to help ensure timely, high-quality delivery aligned with Institute policies, governance requirements, and strategic priorities. This position serves as a key operational liaison among administrative leadership, faculty, staff, campus partners, and external stakeholders. This position requires independent judgment, strong organizational skills, initiative, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. This position does not include supervisory responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1-Manage all aspects of assigned programs and portfolios throughout the project life-cycle to ensure completion within the defined scope, quality, schedule and budget parameters; Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including unit strategic committees, working groups and campus partners, to support implementation, operational execution, milestone management, and adherence to established governance requirements.

Job Duty 2-Compile, analyze and respond to data requests to facilitate the development of recommendations to address potential and existing Institute and unit-level challenges; Coordinate related operational and administrative activities, including records maintenance, documentation, meeting support, business document preparation and procurement support. Support operational and compliance-related tracking and reporting needs (e.g., data privacy monitoring, COI certification coordination, and ERM/risk documentation) in partnership with subject-matter experts.

Job Duty 3-Develop data analysis, financial modeling, and bench-marking for project

requests and program/portfolio initiatives; Support budget monitoring and financial tracking by analyzing and reporting financial and operational data to ensure alignment with approved budgets and established timelines.

Job Duty 4-Design, develop and maintain tools, processes and reporting mechanisms for portfolio management and enterprise-level tracking; Collect, verify, analyze, and communicate program, operational, and compliance-related data to monitor progress, milestones, and outcomes. Maintain tracking tools, performance metrics, and documentation in partnership with subject-matter experts; Prepare