Senior Project Manager, Research Core

Location: Work from home (Pennsylvania) Shift: Days (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Worker Type: Regular Exemption Status: Yes

Job Summary

Supports Data Core staff and leadership with project management across a wide variety of technical areas including data infrastructure, software engineering, data science, and health care data analytics for research and related activities. Works collaboratively with project stakeholders both internal and external and functional managers to develop project goals and objectives, set project timeline, manage change, and control scope. Leads project team in collaboration with IT functional leadership to achieve project goals and objectives on time and within budget. Reports and appropriately escalates project progress, concerns, and issues to project stakeholders and leadership.

Job Duties

• Assemble project team, establish authority as project manager, gain consensus, and develop and effectively communicate a clear understanding of the project scope, objectives, mandates, timeframe, budget and other project requirements.
• Ensure project requirements, constraints, and assumptions are defined, documented, and effectively communicated in order to establish the project deliverables using requirements gathering techniques.
• Work with project sponsors and stakeholders to develop project charters including milestones, deliverables and timelines.
• Ensure realistic labor and cost estimates are applied to project activities and tasks in support of project plan and schedule development.
• Collects status information regularly from the project team and maintains visibility to overall project status for stakeholders and leadership.
• Establishes and executes on a communications plan meeting the needs of the project, including status meetings, status reports, change management, and issue escalation.
• Creates agendas, ensures the capture of minutes, and conducts meetings in an effective and efficient manner.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule and costs using appropriate verification techniques so as to keep the project plan accurate and reflective of authorized project changes.
• Maintains, documents, and communicates scope and schedule variances to plan to leadership as appropriate and per the communications plan.
• Manage project risks through facilitating pro‑active risk identification and management and ensuring appropriate contingency plans are developed and implemented to minimize the probability of and impact to the project.
• Organize and track project team tasks to assure proper application of project management standards, best practices, tools, and methodologies in project work.
• Leverages approved supporting tools to facilitate document management, sharing, and collaboration.
• Engages and effectively communicates in a timely fashion with stakeholders, including project sponsors, project team members, IT functional management, and leadership on all project tasks and deliverables, including requirements, scope, plans, staffing, budget, risks, issues, schedules, and status.
• Ensure regulatory compliance of projects through collaboration and coordination with internal regulatory offices.
• Ensures timely and accurate collection of labor hours related to the project.
• Participate in and provide guidance related to vendor management associated to assigned projects including but is not limited to, contract negotiations, invoicing issues lists and new product evaluations.
• Contributes to employee goals and performance appraisals as related to assigned projects.
• Manages and supports the functional manager in managing project budget and financing, including but not limited to planned and actual hours, planned and actual dollars, and variances.
• Work is typically performed in an office or remote‑work environment.
• Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures.

Position Details

Education: Bachelor's Degree-Technology Related Degree (Required)

Experience: Minimum of 6 years-Managing people, processes, or projects (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s):

Skills: Communication, Computer Literacy, Multitasking, Organizing, Research Regulatory Environment, Teamwork

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES

Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.

Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Geisinger is committed to making better health easier for the more than 1 million people it serves. Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes nine hospital campuses, a 550,000 member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,600 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and benefits for domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

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* Does not qualify for J-1 waiver.

Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.