Program Manager

In addition to supporting the Senior Project Manager, this Program Manager will focus on: organizational change management, internal and external communications, team coordination, maintaining the decision log, and curating vendor feedback from OSPHL team. Client seeks an experienced Program Manager to support the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory (OSPHL) with the implementation of a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).

Title: Program Manager
Location: Hillsboro, OR (Hybrid)
Duration: 36+ months
Interview: Web-cam

Job Description:
Client seeks an experienced Program Manager to support the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory (OSPHL) with the implementation of a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). In addition to supporting the Senior Project Manager, this Program Manager will focus on: organizational change management, internal and external communications, team coordination, maintaining the decision log, and curating vendor feedback from OSPHL team.

Responsibilities:

• Project manage multiple complex and detailed project schedules.
• Maintain project timelines, milestones, and critical paths.
• Monitor and control projects to assure timely completion.
• Advise on and escalate key risks and issues that impact the projects.
• Collaborate with managers and advocate for OSPHL resources to beallocated to the appropriate project tasks.
• Respond to requests for information from LIMS vendor or members ofthe OSPHL team.
• Support applications for funding opportunities to support this projectwork. Liaise with OIS SE3 team and provide support.
• Liaise with the OSPHL team to support organizational changemanagement and User Acceptance.
• Coordinate with the OSPHL team to project manage the User Acceptancetesting effort for the LIMS Replacement Project.
• Perform other OSPHL IT Project Management duties, as assigned.
• Write project status reports, every other week (biweekly), to documentall activities performed, including (but not limited to):

o Status on all activities listed in the bullets above.
o Work on resource capacity reports to identify OSPHL resources that are over-allocated and under-utilized.
o Any ad hoc reports needed for OSPHL management to make informed decisions.
o Efforts on project planning and scheduling.
o Updates to the project planner with new LIMS Subprojects based on inputfrom laboratory management team.
o Assistance provided to complete EIS project deliverables for the Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Replacement Project and other related subprojects.

Required skills and experience:

• Office 365
• Prior state government experience
• Project Management
• Exceptional communication skills
• Ability to work effectively remotely
• Project Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMP)certification

In addition, the ideal candidate will have skills and experience in:

• Organization Change Management in a Laboratory or Clinical Care setting.
• Project Management experience in a Laboratory or Clinical Care setting.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body ofKnowledge (PMBOK) methodologies