Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Plans, manages, and coordinates  multiple special projects in support of activities to ensure goals and objectives of mid-sized project or multiple phases of large project are accomplished within prescribed time-frame and funding parameters. Partners with the leadership to design project plans requiring assessment, research and analysis. Manages implementation of project plans and evaluates outcomes.

Job Responsibility

• Partners with management to define project goals, objectives, target initiatives, timelines and budgets; assists with design of project plan; prepares project assessment, analysis, reports and recommendations; interfaces with the leadership to collect financial, statistical and operational data for analysis. 
• Plans, manages and coordinates  multiple projects in support of  activities to ensure goals and objectives of mid-sized project or multiple phases of large project are accomplished within prescribed time-frame and funding parameters. 
• Collaborates with the leadership in assessing and executing strategies; conducts research, identifies industry standards and new innovative practices for analysis; prepares operational analysis, flow charts, presentations and reports, as required by project specifications. 
• Evaluates analyses, identifies best practices, deficiencies, corrective actions and makes recommendations for improvements in operational processes, policies and procedures. 
• Presents analysis and recommendations to management; obtains feedback and collaborates with management to develop project improvement plans; prepares financial analysis and identifies budgetary impact of proposed recommendations. 
• Studies business approaches, applies financial models and makes recommendations around such approaches; coordinates implementation of project plans; prepares and maintains project plans, based on key stakeholder input as well as ongoing/changing needs. 
• Partners with management to implement project initiatives; partners with management to design staff education programs and coordinates implementation, participates in educational initiatives, as needed; monitors project plan performance and prepares status reports. 
• Evaluates effectiveness of project plans; evaluates implemented projects on a periodic basis and compares actual performance to pre-established metrics and business plans; partners with management to develop tools and metrics to evaluate performance of target initiatives. 
• Collects data for review and analysis; prepares analysis and reports for management; prepares additional recommendations and adjustments to plan, as needed. 
• Operates under limited guidance and work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

** The selected candidate will integrate into an existing department of students, post-docs, junior and senior investigators in order to provide novel computational as well as conceptual approaches to the analysis of human disease biology. 

Job Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.

• 3-5 years of relevant experience, required.

  Preferred Qualifications:

• Facility with handling and interpreting complex genomic data including whole genome sequences, 5-base genome sequences, GWAS and Linkage Analysis, ATAC seq data, single cell RNA sequencing data, and bulk RNA sequencing data.   This includes facility with handling compressed fastq and gvcf files as well as integration with other sources of multiomic (proteomic, and metabolic data) as well as their interconversion for loading into appropriate analytic software. 
• Evidence of highly collaborative approach to computational interactions with senior investigators involved in complex genomic, epigenetic and proteomic data in order to address fundamental questions in biology and medical science. 

* * This is a part-time position working Monday-Friday.

*Additional Salary Detail 
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).