Business Administrator I-II, CAAT (Autonomy)

Location: Corpus Christi, Texas, with required work in the Fort Worth, Texas office; travel up to 20% and occasional outdoor work required.

Salary: $5,416.67–$6,577.67 monthly ($65,000–$78,932.04 annually), dependent on education and experience.

Company

Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi is a Hispanic-Serving and Minority-Serving Institution within the Texas A&M University System, supporting higher education, research, and autonomy-related operations.

What you will do

• Manage the CAAT master calendar, operating rhythms, meeting schedules, agendas, minutes, decision logs, action items, deadlines, and follow-up.
• Maintain the CAAT SOP library, document control, records structures, versioning, approvals, reviews, acknowledgments, and filing.
• Coordinate consortium agreements, MNDAs/NDAs, administrative routing packages, purchasing requests, vendor documentation, regulatory tracking, and data-call responses.
• Organize consortium, all-hands, technical interchange, working group, and project meetings, including venues, visitors, lodging, meals, access, signage, and on-site readiness.
• Coordinate Airspace Laboratory scheduling, room setup, equipment, inventory, IT/AV support, facilities, office, fleet, and building-related requirements.
• Supervise student workers and coordinate assigned personnel while escalating operational risks and issues to the appropriate stakeholders.

Requirements

• Business Administrator I: bachelor’s degree in an applicable field and five years of related experience, including one year of supervisory, lead-worker, student-worker oversight, or task-coordination experience.
• Business Administrator II: bachelor’s degree in an applicable field and six years of related experience, including one year of supervisory, lead-worker, student-worker oversight, or task-coordination experience.
• For either level, a master’s degree in an applicable field may substitute for part of the experience: three years of related experience for Level I or four years for Level II, with one year of supervisory, lead-worker, student-worker oversight, or task-coordination experience.
• Related experience may include business or administrative operations, project coordination, sponsored-project support, agreement or contract coordination, office operations, facilities, logistics, or records management.
• Strong written and verbal communication, professionalism, attention to detail, critical thinking, proactive problem solving, initiative, and sound judgment with sensitive information.
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to manage calendars, deadlines, meetings, records, SOP libraries, trackers, file structures, and collaboration tools.
• Ability to coordinate with university offices, vendors, consortium members, technical personnel, and federal, state, local, and public-agency stakeholders.
• Ability to coordinate complex events, purchasing, facilities, laboratory scheduling, logistics, and administrative processes while working independently or in a team.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds, occasionally work outdoors, travel up to 20%, and work at the Fort Worth and Corpus Christi, Texas locations.
• Applicants must be U.S. persons because of federal deemed-export controls and ITAR compliance; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Organizational Leadership, or an applicable field.
• Experience in higher education, university research administration, sponsored programs, public-agency projects, aviation, autonomy, transportation, research centers, or government-sponsored research.
• Experience with federally sponsored projects, task orders, consortia, agreements, MNDAs/NDAs, contracts, purchasing, master calendars, SharePoint/Teams, project trackers, document control, facilities, laboratories, IT/AV, or multi-stakeholder events.
• Experience coordinating student workers, temporary employees, administrative support personnel, or cross-functional teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Grant-funded position; continued employment depends on available funding.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, and dependent-care spending accounts are available subject to eligibility rules.
• Retirement options include the Teacher Retirement System of Texas or Optional Retirement Plan, plus voluntary deferred-compensation programs.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, birthday leave, and 12–15 paid holidays are provided.
• Tuition benefits include public loan forgiveness, book scholarships, and up to 100% tuition coverage for 18 credit hours per fiscal year, subject to applicable rules.
• Employment is contingent on credential verification, required institutional checks, and a criminal history investigation.