Senior Project Management Specialist

As a Senior Project Management Specialist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, you will play a critical role in leading complex, data-driven initiatives that advance clinical, operational, and research outcomes. In this role, you will determine resource and personnel needs across multiple projects, collect and interpret data, and translate findings into meaningful insights that drive informed decision-making. You will track, analyze, and present project and departmental data, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility into progress, priorities, and opportunities for improvement.

Leveraging strong conceptual knowledge and prior experience, you will work both independently and collaboratively to oversee action plans, evaluate outcomes, and support the successful execution of initiatives that make a lasting impact on patients and families.

• Coordinate assigned projects including collaborating on project plans, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Identify and use appropriate project management tools and concepts (charters, scope management, budget management, risk/ issue management, communications management).
• Develops and execute work plans.
• Set priorities for tasks based on importance and urgency.
• Track progress and prepare internal reports.
• Prepare documents to support project management and reporting.
• Prepare and distribute project communication to internal and external clients.
• Identify people, process and infrastructure needs and act as liaison to ensure appropriate systems and reporting are maintained in support of project requirements.
• Create work products and project deliverables, both independently and under direction of team members.
• Understand and meet expectations for deliverable quality and timeliness.

• Engage clients and stakeholders, negotiate project scope as needed, and communicate with client throughout the project.
• Identify resources needed, such as information, expertise, personnel, and instruments and problem-solve gaps.
• Lead project teams and direct work of others while assuming final responsibility for the result.

• Perform primary and secondary data collection (e.g., literature reviews), summarize findings, draw appropriate conclusions, and effectively communicate results to team.
• Coordinate collection of data.
• Conduct/support qualitative and quantitative analysis of project data.
• Support and execute regulatory/reporting activities related to projects (e.g., IRB, updates/reports to funding agencies, etc.).

• Manage communication to and relationships with key project stakeholders.
• Compose, edit, and deliver written and verbal communications.
• Facilitate small group discussions.
• Keep team members appropriately informed.

• Strategize with project, program and department leadership to develop plans to advance objectives.
• Work in collaboration to establish goals and objectives, prioritize key objectives and work with the team to meet the goals and objectives.
• Strategize and recommend infrastructure necessary to execute selected projects & processes.

• Direct Reports (TBD) Medium Volume and/or Complexity of Projects.
• Complexity defined as a combination of project expenses per year, and number of stakeholders for full projects or assigned portions of projects.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• 4+ years of experience

• Clinical research experience
• Ability to facilitate/lead virtual meetings with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Strong collaboration skills with both internal stakeholders (i.e., data management, regulatory) and external stakeholders (i.e., external research teams)
• Use of project management tools (i.e., Smart Sheets, Jira, Confluence)

Remote

Full time

Day (United States of America)

Biostatistics & Epidemiology

Regular

1

40

Annualized pay may vary based on FTE status $61,401.60 - $78,291.20

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