Senior Program Manager- Pediatric Infectious Disease

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Organization:

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Job Summary:

Provides leadership for the creation, coordination, execution and growth of complex programs independently. Provides leadership to support programs that are expected to experience significant change, expansion or evolution over time.

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DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:

For 50 years, the Division of Pediatric Diseases at VUMC has been dedicated to excellence in patient care, training, and research in pediatric infectious diseases. Our mission is to foster knowledge through research, teaching, and training of physicians and scientists, as well as the delivery of superb clinical care, with the overarching goal of improving childhood health. We are home to a diverse group of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and scientists whose professional interests span across multiple areas of pediatric infectious diseases. For more information, please visit https://pediatrics.vumc.org/infectious-diseases.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Program Management

• Develops program plans, goals, and objectives in collaboration with program and area leadership.

• Provides professional and/or technical leadership in the execution of day-to-day program activities.

• Communicates within and across department to maximize information sharing around progress, needs, interdependencies and accomplishments.

• Participates in institutional task forces and other special committees related to the achievement of goals and objective.

• Planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific program goals and objectives.

• Build relationships through industry contacts, professional organizations, individuals, and act as point of contact for financial inquiries.

Peer Leadership

• The ability to show leadership and influence people in an effort to accomplish team goals.

• Acts as a "go-to" resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small project teams.

Financial Processes

• Ability to monitor costs, expenses, and revenue as well as the ability to manage those costs and expenses in relation to budgeted amounts.

• Review invoices against contractual agreements.

• Partners with division administrator to resolve budgetary issues.

• Creates unique and often complex financial reports

• Maintains files for various financial and grant documentation as well as maintains the labs website

Quality Management

• Identifies, analyzes, and improves upon existing business processes for optimization and to meet standards of quality.

• Independently delivers on objectives with understanding of how they impact the results of own area/team and other related teams.

•  Utilizes multiple sources of data to analyze and resolve complex problems; may take a new perspective on existing solution.

• Has advanced knowledge within a professional area and basic knowledge across related areas.

• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• Quality Management (Advanced): Developing a systematic process of checking to see whether a process or service is meeting specific requirements.
• Networking (Advanced): Build relationships through industry contacts, professional organizations and individuals.
• Peer Leadership (Advanced): The ability to show leadership and influence people of equal rank in an effort to accomplish team goals.
• Process Improvement (Advanced): Identifies, analyzes and improves upon existing business processes for optimization and to meet standards of quality.
• Mentoring & Coaching (Intermediate): The essence of training and mentoring on the job is transfer of knowledge. Whereas training can be considered more formal and scheduled,