Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 8 hours ago
IT Project Manager (Remote Available)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid LevelVanderbilt University Medical Center, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is dedicated to transforming healthcare through innovative research and patient care. They are seeking a Term IT Project Manager to coordinate project activities, manage relationships between investigators and the informatics group, and ensure timely project completion through effective communication and resource allocation.
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Responsibilities
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
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
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred formal background in strong data and computational focus-type field (e.g., math, statistics, computer science, economics)
Company
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a nonprofit institution specializing in patient care, research, and nobility in medical education.
Founded in 1925
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (74)
2023 (73)
2022 (113)
2021 (96)
2020 (70)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$35.3MKey Investors
National Institute on AgingAdvanced Research Projects Agency for HealthGordon and Betty Moore Foundation
2025-07-02Grant· $25M
2024-11-15Grant· $3.3M
2024-09-13Grant
Leadership Team
Wright Pinson
Deputy CEO and Chief Health System Officer
Cecelia Moore
Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
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