Scientific Research IT Project Manager

Facilitate between executive level stakeholders and technical/engineering teams to define business requirements and translate into technical requirements/acceptance criteria.
· Coordinates and oversees all phases of the project or service line responsibilities
· Utilizes scientific knowledge and quantitative and qualitative research skills to perform a variety of technical operations related activities, including data management, analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, report/presentation, preparation and management of budgets and schedules for proposals and projects.
· Ensure timely completion of tasks in line with project objectives.
· The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
* Demonstrates ability to forecast complex resource needs, identify and break work down into discrete and measurable tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, prepare acceptance criteria and organize work for one or more large projects.
* Demonstrates proficiency in providing professional and scientific guidance in the execution of day-to-day research project activities. Plans and maintains schedule of research projects and timelines.
* Develops research protocols and prepares draft/final study protocols for studies under occasional guidance.
* Monitors budgetary requirements and aims of the funding award.
* Identifies gaps in processes and potential areas for improvement.
* Participates in meetings as required with sponsoring agencies and/or collaborating professionals and vendors. Communicates as needed with colleagues, leadership, Principal Investigator, collaborating professionals, the Human Research Protection Program, the scientific community, and others.
* Plans for and anticipates events outside of immediate responsibility.
* Anticipates problems and obstacles before they arise.
* Manages project status, including management of project website, consistent status reporting, and presentations, and communicates to team members and executive staff.
* Demonstrates mastery of project communications in practical applications of a difficult nature.
* Effectively transmits technical and business ideas and information to others, including non-technical audiences.
* Shares knowledge, ideas and information openly, and effectively sells new ideas and influences others.
* Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering project communications without requiring support and instruction from others.
* Demonstrates mastery of Issues Management in practical applications of a difficult nature.
* Identifies, documents, and manages project issues and escalates, as appropriate, to achieve timely resolution.
* Adept at identifying issues before they become problems and assigning those issues to the right people at the right time.
* Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully managing internal project issues without requiring support and instruction from others.
* Able to anticipate and resolve unplanned project issues as they arise.
* Serves as the data resources advisor on projects.
* Demonstrates technical expertise in understanding the structure of diverse biomedical data types and defining or collaborating with scientific stakeholders to define modeling and validation requirements.
* Works with engineering teams and technical stakeholders to define data processing life cycles, deliverables, and access requirements.
* Collaborates with research support and knowledge management teams to document data models, data transformations, and access requirements.
* Collaborates with research support and knowledge management teams to develop end user support materials.
* Provides direction for data analysis/QC, performs data interpretation, and communicates results.
* Evaluates significance of data and reports findings. Updates database(s), or provides information as case may be, on a daily basis.
* Ensures integrity and security of scientific data. Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies, including meeting deadlines.
* Master's degree or PhD preferred in appropriate scientific…