Project Manager - Health Science Professions

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Job Description

Department: Division of Health Science Professions

General Statement of Job

The Project Manager - Health Science Professions is responsible for the overall quality of direction, coordination, implementation, and timely completion of projects and ad hoc assignments within the Division of Health Science Professions.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Creates and executes full-scale project work plans as appropriate for the projects being initiated or managed by the Dean for Nursing and Allied Health.
• Creates long-and short-term plans including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines.
• Plans, schedules, manages and evaluates the day-to-day operation and execution of project tasks with a focus on meeting project commitment and target completion date.
• Monitors and regulates the use of resources and assignment of personnel for the projects.
• Tracks project deliverables and assures their quality.
• Provides direction and support to project teams and office staff ensuring high levels of motivation, collaboration, and performance.
• Prepares and coordinates the preparation of periodic and special reports, including monthly and weekly activity reports, financial reports, Institutional Effectiveness plans and reports, program reports, division proposals and other reports as assigned.
• Facilitates workflow and communication between offices and departments in the division and outside division, including disseminating information, tracking projects and assigned tasks, managing communications, evaluating feedback and coordinating division-wide events.
• Attends planning meetings of department leads and community partners in assigned area for upcoming campus events, press conferences or community – related conferences.
• Conceptualizes, manages, organizes and supports division – wide and campus- based events, meetings, and other activities to promote the college and/or assigned area in collaboration with Communication and Creative Services.
• Leads and works in cross-functional project teams and task forces in addressing concerns, formulating solutions, implementing changes, and improving overall quality and service in the division and the college.
• Schedules and facilitates project team meetings.
• Continually identifies, prioritizes, and mitigates project risks.
• Prepares and presents oral and written reports.
• Prepares flowcharts, process maps, timelines, trend analysis, and graphs to depict processes, historical data, and projects.
• Identifies opportunities for business process improvements within project scope.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field required; Master’s Degree preferred.
• At least three (3) years of experience in a related field required.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong background in computers and office automation, including word processing, spreadsheets, database, Excel, PowerPoint and knowledge of the Windows environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge in handling multiple projects, large budgets, making difficult decisions and implementing action plans in a cooperative yet responsive team environment to achieve desired goals.
• Proven excellence in planning, decision-making and organization.
• Ability to adapt to constant change and periods of fast-paced, high-intensity work situations.
• Demonstrated commitment to achieving the vision and mission of South Texas College.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, employees, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Checks, Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• Security Sensitive position: All applicants are subject to a criminal background check under South Texas College policy.
• In addition, subject to a federal background check.

Physical Requirements

• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading, including color, depth perception, and field vision.
• Visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

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