Research Program Manager- Cancer Center- Remote

The UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center seeks a Research Program Manager to be responsible for planning, tracking, data analysis, reporting, and overseeing the administration and implementation of complex programs, projects, and initiatives.  This is a remote position.

In this role, the Research Program Manager would be responsible for the following:

• Coordinate with PI(s) and team members to design internal timelines.

• Facilitate required reporting on either grant progress or for committee review. 

• Assist with activities of internal and external advisory boards or other steering committees, including setting up review meetings, operationalization and follow up of meeting outcomes.

• Oversee tracking and maintaining program data, metrics and outcomes and assesses program impact to ensure achievement of goals.

• Identify, analyze, and improve upon existing project management processes.

• Facilitate research lab meetings to coordinate agenda, document minutes, distribute and follow up on project-related action items

• Establish close relationships with key collaborators and platform staff to enhance knowledge flow and data distribution.

• Assist with the submission of IRB documentation, material transfer agreements and data access agreements, data submissions, and other required documentation.

• Assist with data processing and data transfer, internally to analysts and externally to collaborators and data sharing repositories as needed 

• Assist in drafting, editing, and submission of protocols, reports, letters, lecture presentations, email communications, and other written materials as needed.

• Ensure data results are compiled, analyzed, and presented properly

• Work with UVACCC staff to manage project-specific budgets to ensure expenditures and projections are on target.

• Work with UVACCC communications team to update websites and distribute program information as needed

• Maintain positive and collaborative working relationships with UVACCC and external partners and solicits feedback to improve projects and programs. 

• Coordinate with PI(s), Associate Director of Research Development and Collaborations, and team members to organize grant submissions.

• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements

Education: Master's degree
Experience: At least four years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

In addition to the requirements listed above, the following qualifications are preferred in applicants:

• Highly collaborative and capable of working well in a team. The candidate must be 

• Detail-oriented, well-organized, able to think logically about research processes

• Flexible and able to respond quickly to changing issues and priorities involving multiple groups

Physical Demands
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

Application Instructions: Please apply through Workday and complete an application online. Include the following documents:

• A CV/resume

• A cover letter

All documents can be loaded into the resume submission field, multiple documents can be submitted into this one field. Internal applicants must apply through their UVA Workday profile. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

For questions about the application process, please contact Margaret Weeks, Academic Recruiter. Before a formal offer of employment is extended, the selected candidate will undergo a background check per university policy.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff.  We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences.  We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.