Junior Project Manager
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Full-time
Project Management
Posted on March 29, 2024
The Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Project Manager to join our team! Our employees and applicants come from diverse backgrounds. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes VCU stronger.
Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Mission:
“To improve the lives of all Virginians by delivering cutting-edge cancer care through patient-centered prevention and treatment; high-impact, innovative research; community input and engagement; and education and training of the next generation of researchers and healthcare professionals.”
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center is a nationally ranked cancer center located in the heart of Downtown Richmond. All full-time staff is eligible for our generous benefits package that includes choices for health, vision, and dental coverage, life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, retirement planning, tax-deferred annuity, and cash match programs, flexible spending accounts, tuition benefits, significant paid-time off,12 paid holidays, and more.
Veterans: VCU faculty and University and Academic Professionals are now eligible for enhanced leave accrual rates based on verified military service. The calculation of these leave accrual rates will include a veteran's verified service in the military, National Guard, Reserves (active or inactive duty) and full-time state or Federal National Guard duty. Eligible employees must supply DD-214 documentation for each period of military service to receive this benefit.
Explore our benefits further here: https://hr.vcu.edu/current-employees/benefits/university-and-academic-professional-benefits/
Position Summary:
As a Junior Project Manager with PMP certification, you will play a pivotal role in project coordination, management, and implementation for the VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Administration Team. Reporting to a project manager, you will be responsible for non-cyclical and varied initiatives, aligning them with the project management life cycle and supporting business priorities. Additionally, you will perform tasks such as research and analysis, providing updates to the team and collaborating with managers on complex initiatives. The successful candidate for this position will work closely with the project management team, center leadership, researchers, administrators, and other stakeholders to plan, execute, and deliver complex projects in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Prioritize numerous initiatives while ensuring their successful completion with minimal direction.
- Develop and maintain professional relationships with key stakeholders to assure success.
- Prepare and maintain records, meeting minutes, reports, and presentation materials.
- Synthesize large complex customer business and technical requirements into manageable pieces, lead internal and external customer meetings, develop comprehensive proposal and implementation project schedules, and meet deadlines.
- Performing quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected.
- Define project goals, objectives, scope, timing, and resources in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Plan and oversee day-to-day project activities, monitoring progress towards goals.
- Work with both internal and external customers on a daily basis, and deliver customer and executive briefings on a variety of topics including status updates, technical issues; solutions, pricing and scheduling timelines.
- Perform project work, including analysis, as part of project roles and responsibilities.
- Apply continuous improvement methodologies throughout the project management lifecycle.
- Assist Project Manager with oversight of vendor contracts, evaluating technical performance and adherence to requirements.
- Monitor and control impact to project scopes and budgets, communicating potential impacts to stakeholders.
- Perform project close-out steps, identifying lessons learned to inform the success of future projects.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
- Two years of effective program/project management experience required.
- Experience in project and financial management desired.
- Ability to maintain a high level of quality of work under pressure with hard deadlines and commitment to deliverables.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office and a strong understanding of system development, database management techniques.
- Excellent English skills (both verbal and written), organizational skills, time management, prioritizing tasks, detail-oriented, and multi-tasking required.
- Massey Cancer Center supports a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment. The candidate will demonstrate experience that shows their commitment to fostering such an environment.
- PMP or LSS certification preferred.
Position Details:
Department: Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
Employment Type: UF - University Employee FT
Restricted Status: No
FTE: 1
Exemption Status: Exempt
University Job Family: General Administration - Project Analyst GA 1 - 19251
ORP Eligible: no
Contact Information:
Contact Name: Massey Cancer Center Human Resources
Contact Email: masseyhr@vcu.edu
