Project Manager - Bioinformatics # 26-21308

$85-$89 per hour

Mettawa, IL

Contract

Duration: 06+ Months (Part Time ~ 20 hours per week)

Key responsibilities:

• Working group coordination: Organize and launch working groups for specific focus areas, including Code Ocean implementation, metadata management, and data storage.

• Project documentation: Draft and maintain detailed timelines, objectives, and deliverables based on functional and technical input from the working groups.

• Risk and dependency management: Develop and monitor risk registries and identify critical dependencies across various workstreams to ensure milestones are met.

• Meeting facilitation: Schedule and facilitate working group activities, ensuring progress is tracked and action items are clearly documented and followed.

• Communication systems: Implement and manage effective communication structures across all working groups to maintain alignment and provide timely status updates to the strategic lead.

Qualifications and requirements:

• 5 - 7 years of experience.

• Life sciences experience: Demonstrated experience managing projects within life sciences data management, bioinformatics, or data strategy environments.

• Communication skills: Strong organizational and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and management.

• Technical literacy: Ability to understand and utilize bioinformatics and data management vocabulary to translate requirements into actionable plans.

• Tools: Proficiency in Smartsheet and Confluence is highly preferred.

• Platform familiarity: Previous experience with platform integration (familiarity with Code Ocean or similar platforms is a significant plus).

Reporting :

• This role provides tactical support to the strategic program manager for bioinformatics and to the head of bioinformatics.

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