Senior Project Management Specialist

Cincinnati Children's is a leading children's hospital focused on advancing health outcomes for children. The Senior Project Management Specialist will lead complex, data-driven initiatives, manage project coordination, and ensure effective communication with stakeholders to drive informed decision-making and project success.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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., SmartSheets, Jira, Confluence)