Job Description

Oversee, manage and coordinate all operational aspects of ongoing department projects impacting multiple departments. Serves as liaison between project team and department.

FUNCTIONS

• Manage all aspects of project(s): planning, implementation, monitoring, completion, and follow-up.
• Manage competing timelines and prioritize critical tasks.
• Establish and achieves project standards for work quality and quantity.
• Assess project issues and develop solutions to meet scientific, productivity, quality and client satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Assist in technical, financial, and organizational issues by researching issues, providing recommendations and maintaining document archives.
• Maintain and track project budget(s).
• Reconcile the use of resources for the projects.
• Identify and anticipate schedule slips or changes and analyzes the costs and resource impact.
• Implement tools, techniques and processes to provide or create information to enable informed decision making within the teams.
• Actively participate in directing the evolution and defining the role of the project.
• Ensure the project goals and objects are well understood by the various functional areas.
• Liaison with department staff, sub or satellite team leaders and members to obtain their continued input and feedback on the benefits, needs, and issues associated with the project.
• Maintain the master project plan and schedule for assigned projects.
• Recommend and develop operational or process improvements for the performance and successful functioning of the project team.
• Provide department management with project management support on an as needed basis as well as for special projects.
• May manage and direct the activities of project support staff.
• Conduct annual performance reviews, and provides career counseling and general guidance.
• Identify or lead focus area projects within the overall function of project management or related projects.
• Generate periodic updates and prepare formal presentations for required forums.
• Generate individual and more complex reports utilizing various resources.
• Ensure project work complies with domestic (may also involve international) regulatory requirements and approved guidelines relevant to area of responsibility.
• Ensure project work complies with practices, policies and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in required meetings, activities, and related projects and relevant interdepartmental activities.
• Anticipate resource needs and communicate to management sponsors.
• Other functions that may be assigned.

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS

• Skills in handling multiple responsibilities, priorities, tasks, and projects simultaneously.
• Skills in working under time pressure, and effectively in a team matrix environment.
• Practical project management software and spreadsheet skills, proficient computer operation skills.
• Effective interactions in a team or matrixes environment.
• Good organizational skills, detail-oriented & accurate, analytical skills.
• Team player, self-starter, persistent, tactful, and persuasive.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills (writing and presentations).
• Ability to assume increasing levels of responsibility.

Requirements

• Doctorate OR
• Masters + 2 years of Project Management experience OR
• Bachelors + 4 years of Project Management experience OR
• Associates + 8 years of Project Management experience OR
• High school/GED + 10 years of Project Management

Preferred Qualifications

• In addition to PM experience knowledge in Scum/Agile Framework/Agile Framework
  Use of Smartsheet/Use of Power BI

Benefits

• Administrative Shift
• 9-months contract