Senior Program Manager- Pediatric Infectious Disease

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Organization:

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Job Summary:

In your pivotal role as Sr. Program Manager, you will provide leadership for the creation, coordination, execution and growth of complex programs independently. You also will provide leadership to support programs that are expected to experience significant change, expansion or evolution over time.

You will be tracking effort and ensuring that grants are in place while also projecting priority. There are multiple grants, and you will track the progress reports. This is a very busy and fast-paced team. You should be able to work with the team but also fully function independently.

Again, team work is essential. You also need to be able to multitask and exhibit great flexibility. The ability to prioritize complex tasks with a positive attitude is essential.

Proficiency in the following software:
• Excel – building and maintaining budgets
• Working within WorkDay

Overview of your role will include, but not be limited to:
1. Overseeing effort reporting for the team
2. Working with oversee financial reports
3. Keeping track of all the contracts
4. Keeping track of outgoing and incoming invoices
5. Overseeing grant submission for my team – make sure the budget justification, biosketches, facilities, equipment are up to date
6. Overseeing my international program - Jordan research projects and future collaborations (e.g. Peru)
7. Providing progress reports
8. Helping create and maintain team website
9. Maintaining calendar for important due date
10. Oversee patient payments process for all studies
a. Working with teammate to ensure each study that is starting a payment process is being done following the guidelines (working with teammate) and then all goes to teammate in streamlined way; will frequently have to trouble-shoot with teammate as issues arise or follow up on returned checks or payments not received.
11. Team devices – keeping track of laptops and iPads that our team has; will work with IT to set up all new ipads and will “clean them up” when they get turned in. It is possible the iPad process will change the next time we have to buy new ones based on updated IT policies. 
12. Contracts- This is managed by admin team, but you will need to give input from someone who understands what work will be done to answer questions correctly 
13. Hiring - Interview new candidates and on boarding process
a. Working with teammate to make sure all administrative details are sorted prior to a person starting
b. Teammate creates welcome letter. This letter should tell the new person who their supervisor is and at least their day 1 schedule information, and who on the team they should be connecting with 
c. You will tell teammate what devices and desk the new person is assigned and tells teammate who will be their supervisor and who they should connect with
d. Work through the onboarding checklist, or determine who on the team will work through the onboarding checklist 
e. Orientation database - you will maintains this
14. Maintain Team roster and key information is filled and periodically updated 

Grants
1. Progress Reports – after funded
2. Oversee Budget
3. Budget Justification - make sure descriptions are up to date
4. Biosketch preparations – oversee accurate and collection from all Co-Is
5. Other support

Financials
1. Manage primary grants
2. Minimum monthly financial report
3. Review charges to confirm they are appropriately charging
4. Oversee large orders
5. Coordinate lab supplies and equipment charges
6. Standardized invoices
7. Invoices – to subs
8. Invoices – from subs
9. Project financials
10. Manage service contracts
11. Oversee start and stop dates for subcontracts
12. Oversee VCC charges
13. Oversee core charges
14. Oversee reco