IT Project Manager (Remote Available)

Term It Project Manager – Victr

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Job Summary

This is a full-time/exempt term position lasting six months to one year. This position will coordinate project team activities with occasional guidance, including collaborating with investigators to manage current projects, as well as secure additional projects, and managing the relationship between investigators and the informatics group. Identifies appropriate resources needed, and develops schedules to ensure timely completion of project. Coordinates the activities of the team (i.e., create project assignments and distribute workload, perform training, provide general supervision) by becoming familiar with system scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member. Implements small development projects or components of large projects. In addition, this position is also needed to coordinate technical infrastructure and resource allocation between the informatics group and other technical groups within the Vanderbilt institution.

About the Department

The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (VICTR) is Vanderbilt's virtual home for clinical and translational research. Supported by Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Office of Research and the NIH-sponsored Clinical and Translational Service Award (CTSA), the mission of the institute is to transform the way ideas and research discoveries make their way from origin to patient care. VICTR functions to help researchers and clinicians do their jobs better by providing tools and support to improve the quality of research, publications, grant writing, and training for future doctors and researchers.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding of basic statistical concepts (e.g., descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, regression).
• Ability to retrieve, analyze, and validate data to answer straightforward business questions using common analytics tools (required).
• Beginner to intermediate proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably SQL or Python.
• Experience making simple updates or modifications to Tableau dashboards is strongly preferred.
• Ability to translate analytic findings into clear visualizations and written summaries for non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience preparing reports, slide decks, or summary briefs for leadership or research teams.
• Familiarity with working with healthcare, clinical, or administrative datasets.

Project Communications

• Meets with stakeholders to understand project scope and timeline. Translates customer needs into projects on a project roadmap.
• During feasibility discussion, understand project goals and communicate alternative ideas where possible to better suit project goals and budget.
• Suggests key milestones from completing a project's minimum viable product within project budget, and additional milestones for subsequent development phases.
• Provides communication buffer between stakeholders and developers.
• Demonstrates mastery of project communications in practical applications of a difficult nature.
• Effectively transmits technical and business ideas and information to others, including non-technical audiences.
• Shares knowledge, ideas and information openly, and effectively sells new ideas and influences others.
• Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering Project Communications without requiring support and instruction from others.
• Communicate with key stakeholders to keep them informed about development progress and any potential barriers that may arise.
• Provide regular updates to project team regarding development progress; updates may include quick messages, calls, screenshots, documentation, or demonstrations of development.
• Immediately communicate any potential delays in project development to investigators, with explanation of the delay and potential solutions.
• Provides guidance and support to team members.
• Leads vision, roadmap, deliverables for products.
• Provides direction on development, execution and monitoring of product roadmaps.

Project Coordination

• Coordinates and oversees all phases of the project.
• Performs project tracking (milestone completeness throughout the development process) and reporting relative to task completion dates, dependency effects, problem anticipation, schedule conflicts, and assignment to appropriate staff for resolution.
• Monitor percent complete for project milestones to forecast any potential timeline barriers
• Manages prioritization procedures for changing scope [i.e., change management] and project acceptance procedures.
• Measures progress toward goals and revises project objectives and documents applying change control procedures.
• Assumes responsibility [as appropriate] for resolving issues and seeing work through to successful completion.
• Provides training to project managers and others on project related templates and toolsets.
• Develops methods to measure customer satisfaction and obtains feedback at critical. milestones and at project completion to ensure project efforts meet customer expectations.
• Participate in internal testing of developed technology.
• Strongly suggest and provide time for iterative user acceptance testing by investigator's/end user's team.

Project Issues Management

• Demonstrates mastery of Issues Management in practical applications of a difficult nature
• Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgement.
• Adept at identifying issues before they become problems and assigning those issues to the right people at the right time.
• Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully. managing internal project issues without requiring support and instruction from others.
• Able to anticipate and resolve unplanned project issues as they arise.
• Propose solutions for any barriers that arise with collaboration from development team and investigator.
• Triage any reports of bugs to appropriate development team member for quick resolution.

Project Planning

• Following an initial feasibility meeting, provide investigators with timeline estimate based on project scope.
• Creates project plan with milestones and timeline that fit the project's budget.
• Demonstrates ability to forecast complex resource needs, identify and break work down into discrete and measurable tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, prepare acceptance criteria and organize work for one or more large projects.
• Plans for and anticipates events outside of immediate responsibility.
• Anticipates problems and obstacles before they arise.
• Sets priorities with a proper sense of urgency and importance.
• Develops creative ideas and takes innovative action to achieve planned goals and objectives. Is proficient in the use of project management tools.

Required Skills

• Ability to learn rapidly about new technologies and methods
• Ability to solve medium to complex problems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent critical thinking skills
• Detail oriented
• Preferred formal background in strong data and computational focus-type field (e.g., math, statistics, computer science, economics)

Additional Information:

This is a term position. A term position is a staff position that exists for a period longer than six months but is not expected to last beyond one year. Although a position may exist for a specified or indefinite period, staff who accept term positions are not guaranteed employment for the entire period; they are employed for indefinite periods within the limit of the appointment. There are no guarantees of continued employment, either within the term or when the term ends. This position may also have the opportunity to work remotely.

Core Accountabilities:

Organizational Impact: Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment. Breadth of Knowledge: Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area. Team Interaction: Provides informal guidance and support to team members.

Core Capabilities :

Supporting Colleagues:- Develops Self and Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance e and gain knowledge in new areas.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.- Communicates Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and