Project Manager, Corporate & Foundations Relations

Job Summary

Join a mission-driven organization advancing education, healthcare, and research across West Virginia. As Project Manager for Corporate & Foundation Relations (CFR), you will play a central role in executing high-impact corporate and foundation partnerships, ensuring complex, cross-functional initiatives that support institutional priorities are delivered with precision, accountability, and excellence.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions and Responsibilities include the following.

• Lead end-to-end execution of corporate and foundation engagements, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and successful delivery of high-impact proposals, grant activity, and stewardship reporting
• Establish and drive project frameworks, timelines, and accountability structures across a complex set of concurrent initiatives
• Oversee and execute post-award processes, including documentation, approvals, and fund setup, ensuring compliance and operational excellence
• Lead reporting strategy and execution, ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality reports to funding partners
• Own and continuously enhance core CFR operational systems, including CRM data integrity, reporting infrastructure, and workflow processes
• Serve as a key strategic partner to CFR leadership, proactively identifying risks, streamlining processes, and strengthening team effectiveness

Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

Education, Experience and Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 2-4 years in project management, operations, or grants administration (experience in complex organizations strongly preferred)
• Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and competing deadlines
• Exceptional organizational skills with strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Strong communication skills with the ability to coordinate and align cross-functional partners
• Experience with CRM systems (Blackbaud and/or Salesforce preferred) and process optimization

Physical requirements

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use his/her hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, and possibly at times, climb or balance, stoop or kneel. Vision abilities required to perform this job include close vision. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Supervisory Responsibilities

NA

Other Duties

Work Environment: The position is expected to be hybrid in alignment with the WVUF work/telecommuting policy.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.