Project Manager

Job Posting Title:

Project Manager

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Hiring Department:

Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Oct 06, 2025

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue Until Aug 31, 2026

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

About The University of Texas at Austin

What starts here changes the world.

The University of Texas at Austin, founded in 1883, ranks among the 40 best universities in the world with top national programs across 19 colleges and schools. By creating educational opportunities for all and leading cutting-edge research at scale, the University fosters positive social change, technological advancement, and economic progress showing the world that change really does start here.

An organizational priority is to successfully make UT the world’s highest-impact public research university, unleashing knowledge, opportunity and innovation from the heart of Texas.

Learn more about UT’s mission and values, and leadership.

Benefits

UT Austin offers a competitive benefits package that includes:  

• 100% employer-paid basic medical coverage  

• Retirement contributions

• Paid vacation and sick time

• Paid holidays

Please visit our Human Resources (HR) website to learn more about the total benefits offered

About The LBJ School of Public Affairs

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the nation’s premier public policy schools. As Texas’ top-ranked policy school for over five decades, the LBJ School provides unmatched opportunities for students to engage with policymakers, industry leaders and innovators in Austin and beyond. The school is committed to improving the quality of public service in the United States and abroad at all levels of governance and civic engagement. Our goals are to prepare students and professionals for leadership positions in public service, produce interdisciplinary research to advance our understanding of complex societal problems and create solutions, promote effective public policy and management practice and foster civic engagement on issues of public concern.

Committed to advancing the quality of public service, the LBJ School continues to drive education, research and civic engagement at all levels of governance. 

About the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

The TCEQ protects public health and natural resources by addressing issues such as air and water quality, waste management, and drought. It also handles homeland security and emergency response, coordinates with other agencies, and provides public access to environmental data and records. In February 2022, TCEQ signed a memorandum of cooperation with the state environmental agency of Chihuahua to work binationally to protect the States’ shared natural resources.

Purpose

The Border Affairs team with the LBJ School of Public Affairs is looking for a Project Manager to help deliver required deliverables to TCEQ under TCEQ contracts by conducting administrative work with UT and managing substantive work for TCEQ.

This is a 1-year fixed-term position ending on August 31, 2026 with possibility of extension depending on business need and availability of funding.

Responsibilities

TCEQ Border Affairs Program Support Budget Management: 

• Oversee the UT contract budget, create monthly budget reports, and request and track budget information from the Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) liaison.

• Coordinate with UT contractors for planned expenditures, contract costs, staff travel, budget transfers, and work order amendments. Ensure responsible and timely purchases, oversee Service Agreements, Contracts, and Purchase Orders (PO) for TCEQ Border Affairs projects.

UT-Global

• Support lead coordinator as needed on preparations and management of UT-TCEQ partnership.

State-to-State Agreements

• Help coordinate and attend workshops and Mexican Official Correspondence (MOC) meetings with Mexican officials; provide administrative, logistical, and accounting support for sponsored travel events.

NADBank Air Quality Fund

• Support lead liaison on implementation of the binational Air Quality Fund (AQF).

• Provide project management, research, writing, amendments, contract coordination, and backup for administrative support, purchasing, subawards, logistics, planning, and communications, with emphasis on UT’s portion of the project.

Lower Rio Grande Water Quality Initiative

• Serve as Binational Liaison for LRGWQI projects. Manage meetings, stakeholder engagement, project planning, research, writing, amendments, and contract coordination.

1944 Water Treaty

• Support TCEQ staff by monitoring water deliveries, attending related meetings, and drafting strategy memos.

TCEQ Onboarding/Training

• Assist with onboarding and training for new TCEQ staff, UT, and Mickey Leland Environmental Interns, including budget management, invoice tracking, grant management, SharePoint access, writing Border Initiative Weekly News, and internship project identification.

U.S.-Mexico Border Grant (PPG)

• Support the Performance Partnership Grant (PPG) coordinator, complete End-of-Year report (FY25-26), participate in multi-state calls and meetings, draft/edit policy memos and reports, assist field staff, and support Border 2025 Task Forces activities.

Communications - Border Initiative Weekly News

• Support intern and distribution, manage distribution list and internal status meetings, coordinate team social media, solicit event photos, write captions, coordinate with agency social media director, assist with translations and hosting international visitors, provide writing and editing support, research for communications, draft reports and web pages, manage Border Affairs SharePoint for consistency and guide regional staff.

TCEQ Training and Research

• Attend TCEQ workshops, meetings, and trainings; complete at least two professional development trainings per year.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration/policy, environmental management/science, international relations, or a related field.

• Training/certification in project/program management (e.g., PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2) and/or grants management (e.g., 2 CFR 200/Uniform Guidance).

• 5+ years program/project management leading multi-stakeholder initiatives (scoping, schedules, budgets, KPIs, risk/issue logs, RACI, status reporting) in a government, university or binational context.

• Drives timelines, manages dependencies, proactive, solution-oriented; anticipates needs and proposes options.

• MS Office Suite tools and programs

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree

• More than the required number of years of experience

• Knowledge of procurement rules, grants compliance, and document management

• International project coordination, subawards, and audit-ready documentation

• Bilingual (English-Spanish); culturally competent with border-region stakeholders

Salary Range

$75,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

• Typical Office Environment

• Repetitive use of keyboard

• This position will work in Sir Richardson Hall at the LBJ School with limited on-site work at TCEQ.

Required Materials

• Resume/CV

• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor

• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.  Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

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Employment Eligibility:

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

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Retirement Plan Eligibility:

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

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Background Checks:

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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Pay Transparency:

The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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Employment Eligibility Verification:

If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form.  You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States.  Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment.  Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.

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E-Verify:

The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:

• E-Verify Poster (English and Spanish) [PDF]
• Right to Work Poster (English) [PDF]
• Right to Work Poster (Spanish) [PDF]

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Compliance:

Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.

The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.