D4CG Senior Project Manager

Department
 

BSD PED - Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation - Pediatric Cancer Data Commons: Data Analyst

About the Department
 

The Biological Sciences Division’s ‘Data for the Common Good’ (D4CG), is a rapidly growing team of experts in medicine, clinical research, public health, data standards, data infrastructure and programming, data governance, and international data sharing. Headquartered in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, Data for the Common Good works to connect and share disparate data sets in order to alter long-standing research paradigms and enable the study of new research questions that drive cures. Its signature flagship project, the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC), houses the world’s largest set of clinical data for pediatric cancer, uniting clinical data from across five continents for almost all types of pediatric cancer. Leveraging its expertise in establishing data commons, Data for the Common Good has expanded to create similar infrastructure across other rare diseases, including rare forms of diabetes, pediatric epilepsy, Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, penetrating brain injury, and adult cancers, as well as a university-wide initiative called the Sociome, a scalable and extensible infrastructure and architecture that will ultimately assemble, quantify and organize the entirety of social context experienced by every individual.

Job Summary
 

The PCDC Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing projects within the Data for the Common Good portfolio including, but not limited to, its pediatric cancer disease group consortia development, implementation, and progress as well as cancer informatics and clinical trials workflow enhancement projects. Additionally, this role will contribute to the overall management of D4CG’s flagship project, the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons, through facilitation of administrative, financial and programmatic tasks. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing creation, revision and execution of PCDC and D4CG standard operating procedures (SOPs). The job uses best practices and knowledge of non-technical (not information technology or construction related) projects from conception to completion. Assembles teams and develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports while being the point of contact for those projects.

This at-will position is wholly funded by contractual grant funding, which is renewed under provisions set by the grantor of the contract. Employment will be contingent upon the continued receipt of these grant funds and satisfactory job performance.

Our department follows a hybrid work structure that fosters productivity, collaboration, and employee well-being. Working from the office is encouraged for tasks that require a high degree of collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Plans, coordinates, arranges, and reports on PCDC consortia meetings and workshops with key stakeholders, including D4CG team experts, clinicians, informaticists, technology experts, and project sponsors.

• Creates project management and consortia work plans and timelines and communicates accordingly with D4CG leadership, project management team, and consortia leadership; Builds and executes project plans.

• Ensures project deliverables are completed according to both internal and stakeholder timelines, notifies D4CG leadership when project timelines are at risk, and works with team members to ensure corrective measures are taken to ensure successful project completion.

• Coordinates events, researches logistics, assists with planning and preparing presentations, event outreach, and post-event write ups.

• Leads development, review and execution of PCDC policies and procedures with input from subject matter experts across D4CG.

• Assembles and leads project teams, assigns individual responsibilities, identifies appropriate resources needed, and develops schedules to ensure timely completion of projects.

• Is responsible for tracking progress, conducting analyses, as well as preparing for and facilitating project meetings.

• Acts as a resource for a project team and provides analytical guidance. Interprets complex project issues and provides analytical guidance to a project team.

• Coordinates the successful integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

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Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

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