How to Apply
A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.
Who We Are
The Information Assurance: Michigan Medicine (IA:MM) team was established to protect systems, data, and identities that Michigan Medicine relies upon. The team educates and prepares staff and students for increasing cyber threats and proactively mitigates IT security risks in partnership with the greater U-M community. The IA:MM team enables teaching, learning, research, and healthcare in a large, open environment by helping to balance risks and threats. IA:MM collaborates and coordinates with university efforts and participates in the development of university-wide security, compliance, and privacy strategies and strives to implement best practice cybersecurity efforts.
Our Division's Mission
We serve as a trusted partner and provide a best-in-class security program to uphold and protect the mission of Michigan Medicine.
Our Division's Vision
We believe in cultivating a shared responsibility of security to enhance how we provide care, deliver education, and create innovation to protect the quality of healthcare.
Our Division's Principles
- Prioritize your self-care, family-care, team-care, then the work.
- Implement balanced assurance solutions.
- Strengthen our department's capabilities.
- Develop an assurance-minded workforce.
- Focus on practical information assurance.
Job Summary
The University of Michigan's Information Assurance at Michigan Medicine (IA:MM) team is seeking interested candidates for a Senior Project Manager position. This role will manage multiple projects that are designed to safeguard institutional data.
As a Senior Project Manager, you oversee the planning and implementation of multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring that the budgeting, timelines, communication, risks and constraints are managed. You partner with a variety of technical and business teams across the organization to deliver on project scope. You navigate the complexities of project delivery with skill and professionalism and ensure stakeholders and project teams are well aligned.
Responsibilities*
As an IT Senior Project Manager, you are responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects, and you provide a single point of contact for those projects. You will take projects from original concept through final implementation and will interface with all areas affected by the project including end users, computer services, and client services. You define project scope and objectives, and develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports. You manage the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables and provide technical and analytical guidance to project team. Recommends and takes action to direct the analysis and solutions of problems. You have experience analyzing a situation, comparing and evaluating various courses of action and have the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their responsibilities. Primary activities and decision-making authority are predominantly performed independently affecting business operations to a substantial degree.
Required Qualifications*
Requirements for Senior Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5+ Years of Information Assurance or IT Related experience.
Requirements for Intermediate Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 2-3 Years of Information Assurance or IT related experience.
Desired Qualifications*
- 3+ years of experience with a variety of project management frameworks and methodologies, such as Waterfall, Agile, and SCRUM.
- Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining deliverables such as project scope and plan, status reports, cost estimates, communication plan, presentations, risk management plan, milestone/project schedules.
- Experience with four primary elements of information technology: information security, database and network management, computer technical support, and business software development.
- 3+ years of experience facilitating projects at a large and complex organization.
- Experience developing clear business case descriptions and scoping documents.
- Demonstrated experience negotiating with a variety of constituencies, including technical and business groups, to achieve solutions that meet both technical and business needs.
- Experience creating consensus in ambiguous situations, or when new information is learned, and adjustments are needed.
- Strong communication skills and business acumen.
- Outstanding oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills dealing with both IT and non-IT experienced audiences, including a diverse range of executives, faculty, IT staff, and vendors.
- Demonstrated ability to comprehend and integrate large-scale projects to drive strategic direction.
- Demonstrated successful performance with independent problem solving, presentations, leadership, and coordinating and completing multiple tasks within and across departments to meet changing deadlines.
- Demonstrated experience with budget planning and conformance, determining project objectives and requirements, anticipating and solving problems, and developing standards and guidelines for diverse activities.
Work Locations
This position is being made available with the ability for you to negotiate alternative work schedules and remote/on-site options to suit your work-life balance.
Non-Michigan residents should inquire about potential employment while working remotely in a state other than Michigan. Apply to be part of a strong team that partners with our institution, community, and each other.
Modes of Work
Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.
Underfill Statement
This position may be underfilled at a lower classification depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.
Additional Information
Benefits
We offer a benefits package that includes comprehensive training and career development opportunities, generous retirement savings plans, ample paid time off, and a wealth of family care support: https://careers.umich.edu/benefits
Background Screening
Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.
Application Deadline
Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.
U-M EEO Statement
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.