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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date
05/22/2025
Salary Range: $68800 - 141000 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
24617

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Department of Medicine is hiring a motivated Project Manager to lead and oversee the successful execution of all program and project operations aligned with the department’s mission and goals. The Project Manager will play a key role in strategic planning, coordination, communication, supervision, training, financial oversight, and grant writing. This position is responsible for managing all aspects of program and project activities from development through implementation. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a high-volume, fast-paced environment. Strong communication skills, staff supervision experience, and a thorough understanding of compliance with UCLA, state, and federal regulations are essential.

Annual range: $68,800-$141,00

Job Qualifications

Required: 

  • Bachelor’s degree or 4-5 years of experience.
  • Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams.
  • Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
  • Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.
  • Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.
  • Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations. 
  • Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
  • Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.

Preferred:

  • Master’s degree or 2-3 years of experience.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.