Technical Project Manager - 140383

About the role

The mission of the San Diego Supercomputer Center is to translate innovation into practice. SDSC adopts and partners on innovations in industry and academia in the areas of software, hardware, computational and data sciences, and related areas, and translates them into cyberinfrastructure that solves practical problems across any and all scientific domains and societal endeavors.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical project management concepts, frameworks and methods, relevant policies and procedures to resolve a variety of technical project management issues.
• Support cross-functional teams with high-level staff and collaborators, ensuring alignment of work plans with project goals.
• Support data integration efforts, including technical aspects of information management, data management and data analysis.
• Proactively manage risk by addressing evolving project needs, secure approvals for project scope adjustments, and ensure all procedures and documentation comply to institutional and funder standards, including generating reports to sponsor requirements.
• Coordinate governance boards consisting of researchers from multiple universities and national labs.
• Provide intellectual input, committee design and chartering, and conduct surveys to evaluate program performance.
• Manage project logistics, tracking, budgets, and communications for various external advisory boards, evaluation committees, and specialized HPC training initiatives.
• Execute, host, and manage the logistics for both virtual and in-person educational events aimed at the national academic user community.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• Professional certification preferred.
• Demonstrated effective organization and project management skills.
• Demonstrated expertise creating, distributing, collecting, analyzing, and presenting results of large complex surveys using experience management software such as Qualtrics.
• Ability to generate reports with effective executive level summaries and detailed technical project details.
• Working knowledge of technology-related initiatives and an understanding of impact to the organization of such initiatives.
• Comfortable working with academic scientists and engineers, across scientific communities and with senior level personnel, also including research and education domains served by the National Science Foundation.
• Broad knowledge of many aspects of computing and communications.
• Experience with outreach and marketing concepts along with strategies to reach an academic, research, government and industrial audience.
• Experience in developing and connecting KPIs to goals and metrics of national-scale projects involving multiple distributed teams supporting tens of thousands of users.
• Meeting facilitation skills, including ability to clarify complex ideas and broker consensus among disparate stakeholders.
• Demonstrated skills in organizing complex multi-day events, effectively managing agendas, communication, fiscal responsibility, staff requirements and leading meetings from concept to completion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• Professional certification preferred.
• Demonstrated effective organization and project management skills.
• Demonstrated expertise creating, distributing, collecting, analyzing, and presenting results of large complex surveys using experience management software such as Qualtrics.
• Ability to generate reports with effective executive level summaries and detailed technical project details.
• Working knowledge of technology-related initiatives and an understanding of impact to the organization of such initiatives.
• Comfortable working with academic scientists and engineers, across scientific communities and with senior level personnel, also including research and education domains served by the National Science Foundation.
• Broad knowledge of many aspects of computing and communications.
• Experience with outreach and marketing concepts along with strategies to reach an academic, research, government and industrial audience.
• Experience in developing and connecting KPIs to goals and metrics of national-scale projects involving multiple distributed teams supporting tens of thousands of users.
• Meeting facilitation skills, including ability to clarify complex ideas and broker consensus among disparate stakeholders.
• Demonstrated skills in organizing complex multi-day events, effectively managing agendas, communication, fiscal responsibility, staff requirements and leading meetings from concept to completion.

Skills

• Technical project management concepts, frameworks and methods.
• Project management software proficiency (e.g., Qualtrics).
• Data management and analysis skills.
• Outreach and marketing strategies.
• Collaboration and facilitation skills.
• Event coordination and management.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$79,200 - $143,400 annually (prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%).

Schedule

Hybrid Appointment Type Career Appointment Percent 100% Union Uncovered.