Manager Of Program Operations

## Manager Of Program Operations Apply remote type:
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Seattle, WAtime type:
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- ** Job Description
**** The Department of Comparative Medicine has an outstanding opportunity for two Manager Of Program Operations positions to join their team.
**** About this Opportunity
** Reporting to the Director-Program Operations, the Manager Of Program Operations purpose is to manage the day to day-to-day operations of the Husbandry Operations Unit; leads and provides direction and guidance to 45 + essential position Animal Care and Operations staff.

This position’s complexities include management of specialized animal housing facilities and the trained animal care staff across multiple sites. This position is required to have requires a robust understanding of multiple research species housing requirements and a thorough knowledge of the physical systems and equipment used in housing animal species for biomedical research.

The Manager of Program Operations provides direction and support in the following functional areas for the Department of Comparative Medicine: space use and allocation in the animal research facilities; determining number of staff hired and staff allocation; guidance and implementation of the Unit’s Operational procedures and systems. This position requires expertise level understanding of the research animal care and welfare standards.

The judgements, recommendations and decisions provided by this position are based on a thorough knowledge of multiple regulatory guidelines, knowledge of species-specific housing needs, Primary Investigator’s animal study needs, as well as the ability to create and execute processes identified in standard operating procedures for the many unique research animal facility processes.
** Key Responsibilities
** Operations (45%)
* Acts as Operations unit lead, providing direction, goal setting, and management of Operations staff
* Leads the Operations’ Units Animal Care Supervisory staff and provides project management for Operations Unit revisions and improvements
* Writes and updates department’s standard operating procedures relevant to Operations
* Provides planning and support for space allocations and resource allocations, including staffing
* Act as subject matter expert for species specific housing and procedural equipment
* Works with vendors and facilities services for needed Operations support, projects and program changes
* Reviews maintenance contracts relevant to Operations unit’s systems and equipment
* Acts as lead on process improvement;, identification and implementation across Operations Unit
* On-call 14 days (14 days off), 24 hours/day for Operations and animal facility related emergencies

Project Management (25%)
* Department’s Operations Unit Project Manager
* Under direction from Departmental Chair, Senior Director of Animal Resources and Department’s Faculty Veterinarians develop and manage projects
* Example of Projects:
* AAALAC Program Description preparation; preparation and oversight of departments cost tracking for the animal facilities physical plant repairs and maintenance costs
* Provide subject matter expertise and research for vendor proposals for light monitoring to animal housing spaces to maintain housing regulations
* Work with vendors to manage upgrades to the current environmental monitoring system for animal housing areas (needed to meet ongoing regulatory and accreditation standards)
* Provide the Operations Unit project support for the 3 year AAALAC accreditation cycle preparations to maintain accredited animal program standing (AAALAC, International)
Staff Management/Supervisor (15%)
* Manages Operations Staff, assigns and directs work duties of Program…