Full-Time
Senior Project Manager
Updated on 8/1/2026
University of Washington
Compensation Overview
$81.8k - $122.7k/yr
Seattle, WA, USA
In Person
The role works in Seattle and Renton, Washington.
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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 Biology & Biotech (1) |
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 Business & Strategy (1) |
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Required Skills
Microsoft Office
Visio
Word/Pages/Docs
Risk Management
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Microsoft Outlook
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in a healthcare-oriented profession, a technology field, or another discipline that demonstrates strong analytical and communication skills.
- Five years of experience serving in a project team leadership role with responsibility for managing vendor-packaged system deployment projects and/or process improvement projects within healthcare.
- Experience working effectively with multiple diverse stakeholders in a complex project environment.
- Experience managing project work and/or the work of others within an established standard project life cycle framework.
- Proven experience in a project leadership role with progressively complicated projects.
- Experience with Microsoft Office and Office 365 tools, including Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Responsibilities
- Lead project initiation and planning phases for assigned projects using DLMP Project Management Office standard tools and templates.
- Work with resource managers and the DLMP Project Management Office to assign project resources.
- Define and communicate clear project roles and responsibilities with an organization chart.
- Complete project tool setup with assistance from the DLMP Project Management Office using Microsoft Project or Planner and Smartsheet.
- Work with relevant team coordinators to develop timelines and resource estimates.
- Report project status regularly to the DLMP Project Management Office, sponsors, and impacted leadership.
- Manage scope, schedule, and budget for assigned projects throughout the project lifecycle, including tracking compliance, progress, activity, change requests, and schedule communication.
- Develop and submit project budget, scope, and schedule change requests for approval when conditions are met.
- Ensure project components are integrated and work within common goals and assumptions, including system integration points, upstream and downstream workflow and system impacts, testing, implementation planning, and operational handoffs.
- Manage execution of assigned projects within the standard project framework using standard tools, templates, policies, and procedures.
- Ensure documentation of user, system, and technical requirements, workflows, application designs, and technical designs relevant to projects.
- Execute test plans covering appropriate technology and operational workflows.
- Understand and track task dependencies and timeline impacts.
- Escalate issues and risks appropriately.
- Complete standard project deliverables within the appropriate project-phase timeframe unless an approved exception exists.
- Manage assigned project issues and risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Assist with initial risk assessment, document risks, and lead development of mitigation plans.
- Include and document mitigation plans for key project risks and tasks in the project work breakdown structure, escalating tasks outside project scope.
- Review and monitor new and existing risks, risk factors, and updates at an appropriate frequency.
- Communicate issues, risks, and risk responses to team members, stakeholders, sponsors, and leadership as appropriate.
- Provide education to the project team about issue-management responsibilities from the beginning of the project.
- Monitor that issues are documented, assigned, given severity, prioritized, and updated by team members.
- Escalate and communicate critical and high-severity issues to project sponsors or project leadership when appropriate.
- Create and maintain service-oriented relationships with business owners, sponsors, leadership, resource managers, and project teams.
- Communicate current efforts, achieved milestones, risks, and issues through formal status reports and meeting forums.
- Report project progress, including earned value, planned value, and variance.
- Assist with and conduct regular project meetings with agendas and minutes.
- Communicate and manage completion, maintenance, and execution of project plans with the team, including external communications when needed.
- Escalate issues and decisions using a discrete, objective, and actionable framework.
- Manage assigned project staff in the execution of project tasks by providing direction and serving in a primary supervisory role.
- Define required skills and work with the DLMP Project Management Office and resource managers to assign individuals to project roles.
- Delegate project responsibilities with clear expectations for deliverable scope, quality, timeline constraints, tools, and processes.
- Ensure the quality and timeliness of work produced by assigned project staff and escalate exceptions to the DLMP Project Management Office.
- Escalate resource-related issues to the DLMP Project Management Office as appropriate.
- Provide performance input on team members, as requested by resource managers, for inclusion in personnel evaluations.
- Mentor assigned project staff in project management.
- Manage vendor execution and deliverables for assigned projects.
- Define and publish clear roles and responsibilities for vendor project team members.
- Define vendor deliverable responsibilities and agreed timelines.
- Monitor vendor performance and escalate exceptions to the vendor engagement lead or DLMP Project Management Office.
- Provide input on vendor contractor performance when requested.
- Monitor vendor time spent on fee-for-service arrangements by tracking and reporting time and materials.
- Lead projects and project teams through implementation, post-implementation, and support transition.
- Lead pilot or project implementation through the DLMP Release Readiness process.
- Assist with development of go/no-go criteria and contribute to decision-making when necessary.
- Coordinate with operational support managers to update existing workflows with new project workflows.
- Facilitate formal operational handoff.
- Complete the project close checklist and lessons-learned tasks.
- Develop and refine Project Management Office standards as assigned.
- Participate in project prioritization and portfolio load balancing, acting as backup for other team members and functions as needed.
- Participate in Project Management Office internal projects.
- Promote Project Management Office standards and project management discipline to project team members and stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications
- Seven years of experience in a formal project management role managing medium- to large-scale, multidisciplinary projects within a complex environment.
- Experience working in or around clinical and research laboratory settings.
- Experience in academic healthcare.
- Experience working as a project manager within a Project Management Office that uses standard project templates and tools, including Project Online or other project portfolio management tools.
- Formal training and/or certification in PMBOK-based project management techniques.
- Continuous Quality Improvement training and experience leading quality improvement teams.
- Organizational Change Management training and experience, such as PDCA or PROSCI.