Manages the overall delivery of assigned projects from initiation through completion. Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports. May supervise or mentor lower level team members.
This position may require the ability to maintain the security and integrity of UT San Antonio and its infrastructure per Texas EO-GA-48.
Responsibilities- Manages resources, schedules, financials and adhere to project management internal control guidelines throughout the full systems life cycle.
- Conducts project meetings and provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
- Recommends and takes action to direct the analysis and works creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.
- Provides analytical guidance and provides status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.
- Manages the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
- Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.
- Develops and recommends budgeting, cost controls, planning, scheduling, and procedural changes.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
- Critical Thinking Skills - Ability to arrive at accurate conclusions and solutions by visualizing new potentials, and by identifying, defining and analyzing problems and situations using rational and intuitive processes.
- Leadership - Ability to attract and mobilize energies and talents; to work towards a shared purpose in the best interests of the organization, the people comprising it and the people it serves.
- Communication - Ability to shape others' understanding in ways that capture interest, inform and gain support.
- Project Management - Ability to coordinate the diverse components of the project by quality project planning, execution and change control to achieve required balance of time, cost and quality.
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree degree in Business Administration or related field is required.
Experience:
- Seven (7) years of experience managing increasingly complex projects is required.
Licenses & Certifications:
- PMP is required.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field
- Seven years of experience managing increasingly complex projects
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification
- Project management skills: planning, scheduling, budgeting, cost controls, change control, and reporting
- Leadership ability to mobilize and motivate teams
- Strong communication skills for cross‑leadership reporting and stakeholder engagement
- Critical thinking and problem‑solving skills
- Ability to maintain security and integrity per Texas EO-GA-48
What We Do
UT Health San Antonio™, one of the country’s leading health sciences universities, is the leader in south/central Texas funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The university’s schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate biomedical sciences have produced more than 33,000 alumni. The $806.6 million operating budget supports four campuses in San Antonio and Laredo, and is the primary driver of its community’s $37 billion biomedical and health care industry. For more information on the many ways “We make lives better®,” visit uthealthsa.org.
