This role integrates project management and clinical research support within the Department of Pathology, providing coordination across clinical, operational, and research initiatives. The individual will lead and support projects from conception through implementation, including planning, tracking, analysis, and reporting, while ensuring alignment with departmental goals and institutional priorities. In parallel, the role supports clinical and translational research activities by assisting with case identification, data management, research workflows, and coordination of multidisciplinary collaborations. Responsibilities include developing tracking systems, facilitating communication among stakeholders, preparing materials for research and clinical initiatives, and ensuring timely execution of projects. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of working across teams to drive both operational efficiency and research productivity in a dynamic academic medical environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works closely with senior management to ensure project charter or framework alignment with department’s goals, strategy and scope of work. Ensures consideration of other relevant guidelines including goals defined by executive sponsors, contract deliverables, or other mandates.
• Leads assigned projects, coordinating with department staff, key workgroups, steering committees, provider partners and leaders to effectively design project charters, pilots and programs. Provides leadership and guidance to Project Managers, Coordinators and Interns as needed.
• Leads and prioritizes multiple concurrent projects/programs, and manages changing priorities, escalating issues and re-setting priorities as needed to meet deadlines and goals.
• Works independently and closely with staff to develop business plans for organizational priority initiatives, identifying opportunities and developing recommendations for leadership.
• Identifies and refines analysis for projects, developing analytic and quantitative frameworks/models to assess the feasibility of new opportunities with department stakeholders. Utilizes data to support decision-making.
• Effectively facilitates cross-functional meetings to successfully collaborate and build consensus with other staff and stakeholders.
• Monitors, evaluates and reports on the progress of projects. Anticipates barriers, communicating major issues and proposed approaches to senior leadership to inform decision-making.
• Produces and executes presentations. Support strategy and program design. Utilizes internal communication, analytics and project management expertise to support strategy recommendations.

Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree is required. Master’s Degree is preferred.

Experience:
4 years progressive experience in healthcare management, project management, consulting or a closely related field, Master’s degree in lieu of two years of work experience is required.
1 year experience managing multiple highly complex projects is preferred.