Portfolio Manager, Research - Semiconductor & Microelectronics

Arizona State University

Portfolio Manager, Research - Semiconductor & Microelectronics

Off-Campus: Mesa/Tempe

JR103584

End Date: March 24, 2025

Department Statement:

Each year since 2016, ASU has been named the most innovative school in the nation, recognizing the university's culture of groundbreaking research and partnerships, as well as its commitment to helping students thrive in college and beyond. U.S. News and World Report has named ASU as the most innovative university all nine years the category has existed.

ASU Knowledge Enterprise advances research, innovation, strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship, and international development. Our success arises from solutions-focused, interdisciplinary research; an entrepreneurial approach that is embedded in every school and department; and a commitment to transform society in a positive way. To learn more about how Knowledge Enterprise is a place for your career to grow, visit https://research.asu.edu/about-us/careers.

Working at ASU has additional perks and OUTSTANDING benefits, which include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; sick leave and holidays; ASU/UA/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; state and optional retirement plans; access to ASU recreation and cultural activities; and more. To estimate the value of your total compensation, please visit https://cfo.asu.edu/compensation-estimator.

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Job Description:

Salary Range: $92,414 - $140,000 per year, DOE

The Knowledge Enterprise (KE) Research Project Management Office (PMO) at ASU seeks an energetic and creative individual to join us as a Project Coordinator, Research to help our faculty uncover the lessons of the past, navigate the perils of the present, and reinvent the promise of the future. ASU is evolving into a New American University that achieves excellence, access, and impact. To that end, KE, the home base for research at ASU, is charged with managing and growing a research portfolio that now exceeds $900M annually. This research encompasses fundamental and use-directed topics.

This position will support project work in microelectronics and semiconductors. The position will be located primarily at ASU’s Macro Technology Works (MTW) site, an ASU facility less than 10 miles from Tempe campus, where semiconductor and microelectronics industry members get a combination of access to advanced equipment and research capabilities that are unique to ASU.

This position is funded by DoD and requires candidates to meet the definition of US person as defined in as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 and 15 C.F.R. § 772.1.

Essential Duties:

• Plans, develops, implements, and manages a project team from concept through complete task definitions, work requirement identification, and assignments.
• Works closely and collaboratively with key stakeholders to define project scope, strategy, budget, and outcomes; identifies critical resource expertise requirements and targets appropriate internal and/or external sources to ensure optimal outcome(s).
• Establishes and continually monitors/manages project expectations with the team; assigns tasks and identifies issues for resolution to ensure optimal team effectiveness.
• Prepares and maintains all project status reports and schedules; tracks milestones/deliverables, critical paths and dependencies; re‐sets expectations as needed in consideration of project progress/outcomes.
• Responds to all inquiries regarding project status; prepares and responds to all regulatory reporting/filings to ensure compliance.
• Develops, prepares, maintains, and forecasts multiple complex project level budgets.
• Manages project risks through collaboration with the project team and application of established risk management practices including the use of a risk register and qualitative/quantitative risk analysis.
• Participates heavily in strategic decisions regarding type of projects, expertise development (grow or buy) and future direction of project efforts integrated with long term institutional objectives/goals.
• Leads initiatives to develop solutions and processes to meet needs; applies knowledge of strategic planning, forecasting and critical thinking.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to engage at senior leadership levels internally in complex matrixed relationships involving both internal and external stakeholders in partnerships.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience using project management principles, practices, and techniques needed for managing multiple large, complex projects throughout the project lifecycle. Examples include earned value management, qualitative and quantitative risk management, and change management.
• Evidence of Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience in writing and developing proposals for funding from federal sources.
• Technical or project management experience in semiconductor and microelectronics. Note that this skillset is desired but not required.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field and nine (9) years related experience; six (6) of which include project management of complex technical or scientific endeavors.

Working Environment:

• Climate-controlled office setting subject to extended periods of being in a stationary position.
• Constantly detects and operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
• Ability to clearly communicate and exchange accurate information to perform essential duties.
• Expected to be responsive to customers, engaged in work production, resourceful, flexible, and respectful of others.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Instructions to Apply

Current Employees and Students should apply directly within Workday using the Jobs Hub. Use this link and log in using SSO:

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To be considered, your application must include all of the following attachments:

• Cover letter
• Resume/CV

Note: Multiple documents can be submitted into the attachment box. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission.

Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position. Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position. NOTE: GA and Intern positions are counted as .5 for job experience (ie. 1 year equals 6 months experience equivalency). Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.

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ASU Statement

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions inclusive excellence, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

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About Arizona State University

Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the country’s most innovative school, Arizona State University is where students and faculty work with NASA to develop, advance and lead innovations in space exploration.

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