This position will lead and support strategic academic, industry, and research collaboration initiatives across the University and external partner organizations. This position is responsible for developing, implementing, coordinating, and maintaining multiple concurrent projects and partnership programs involving faculty, healthcare organizations, industry collaborators, research institutes, and technical stakeholders.
The role requires a strong combination of project management, relationship management, outreach, organizational leadership, and technical coordination capabilities. The successful candidate will work closely with faculty, executive sponsors, industry partners, and operational teams to ensure the successful planning, execution, deployment, and sustainability of projects and educational initiatives, including professional certificate and workforce development programs.
This position serves as a liaison between academic, research, technical, and external business communities to foster collaboration opportunities, support strategic growth initiatives, and ensure the successful delivery of program objectives. The individual must be comfortable managing complex cross-functional projects simultaneously while maintaining strong stakeholder engagement and communication.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare and submit project documentation, including financial and procurement details, for review, approval, and prioritization.
- Develop, maintain, and strengthen relationships with faculty, industry partners, healthcare organizations, research institutes, collaborators, staff, and external stakeholders.
- Provide flexible operational support as needed to meet project timelines, academic objectives, and program requirements.
- Conduct outreach to new companies, organizations, and strategic partners to establish and expand collaborative opportunities and workforce development initiatives.
- Coordinate and manage educational, research, technical, and professional development programs, including certificate-based and collaborative initiatives.
- Prepare, implement, and manage project plans addressing scope, cost, schedule, quality, human resources, risk management, communications, procurement, and change management.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects and collaborations across healthcare, data science, infrastructure, and related interdisciplinary domains.
- Collaborate with faculty, researchers, technical staff, and external organizations to define project objectives, deliverables, milestones, and resource requirements.
- In conjunction with functional managers, identify and coordinate appropriate project resources, establish scheduling timelines, and oversee task assignments.
- Execute, monitor, and control projects throughout the project lifecycle, including establishing project baselines and tracking scope, budget, timelines, and deliverables.
- Identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate project risks and issues while maintaining regular communication with stakeholders and leadership.
- Prepare and submit periodic project status reports, progress updates, and executive summaries to stakeholders and sponsors.
- Support the deployment, implementation, operational coordination, and ongoing maintenance of projects and collaborative initiatives.
- Ensure all project deliverables and objectives are successfully completed and documented.
- Prepare and submit project closure documentation for review and approval.
- Track projects and programs within University-owned Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools and serve as a resource and trainer for local users.
- Support strategic planning efforts and contribute to the growth and expansion of partnership-driven initiatives.
- Support and coordinate academic technical resources and platforms used for the creation, deployment, and management of courses, certificate programs, and educational initiatives.
- Travel may be required based on project and program needs.
- This position requires full in-person participation.
- Other duties as assigned.
NOTE: This position is 100% externally funded and is contingent on continued funding.
