Technical Project Manager
The University of California, San Diego
About this position
Position Description
The mission of the San Diego Supercomputer Center is to translate innovation into practice. SDSC adopts and partners on innovations in industry and academia in the areas of software, hardware, computational and data sciences, and related areas, and translates them into cyberinfrastructure that solves practical problems across any and all scientific domains and societal endeavors. Cyberinfrastructure refers to an accessible, integrated network of high-performance computing, data, and networking resources and expertise, focused on accelerating scientific inquiry and discovery. With more than 250 employees and $30-50M of revenue a year, SDSC is a global leader in the design, development, and operations of cyberinfrastructure. The Business Office of SDSC provides all the administrative functions for the center, as well as certain pooled technical services. The administrative function requires management of all SDSC fiscal resources which come from over 100 different fund sources, preparation and submission of proposals, management of human resources, management of space and facilities, program and event support, and the administration of large complex self-supporting activities. The Business Office also provides technical services from its Business Applications and WebDB group which offers programming, web and database administration and documentation services both to SDSC Divisions and to individual PI’s and awards. SDSC’s Program and Events team works across the center to develop, manage and deliver training and education initiatives identified through grant funded projects, from inception and development through deployment, analysis and impact, along with fiscal responsibility. This group supports center researchers and their projects from proposal to finish. Supported projects often include national visibility and scale, including working across multiple entities beyond UCSD. The Technical Project Manager will apply technical project management concepts, frameworks and methods, relevant policies and procedures to resolve a variety of technical project management issues. They will work on technical project management assignments of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors. Typical projects are of small size and small to moderate impact, budget and / or project team size, although there are also moderate to large scale projects with a national scope and broad impact. The incumbent will support cross-functional teams with high-level staff and collaborators, ensuring alignment of work plans with project goals. Some programs are of national scope. The Technical Project Manager will support data integration efforts, including technical aspects of information management, data management and data analysis as well as proactively manages risk by addressing evolving project needs, secures approvals for project scope adjustments, and ensures all procedures and documentation complies to institutional and funder standards, including generating reports to sponsor requirements. This position supports programs that provide large scale computing, data resources, cyberinfrastructure and support to the whole US national academic user community. This position coordinates governance boards consisting of researchers from multiple universities and national labs. Duties also include providing intellectual input, committee design and chartering and conducting surveys to evaluate program performance. Project tracking demands active involvement in logistical, planning, and technical management tasks. This includes implementing and coordinating both small and large meetings, centered on grant-related initiatives of all scale and application development, managing timelines, milestones, and budgets, and facilitating clear, consistent outreach and communication across geographically dispersed, local and national teams and communities. The position provides supports critical technical project management across three major national cyberinfrastructure programs: ACCESS, Expanse, and COMPLECS. Working closely with PIs and program leadership, the incumbent manages project logistics, tracking, budgets, and communications for various external advisory boards, evaluation committees, and specialized HPC training initiatives. The position is responsible for coordinating quarterly meeting agendas, administering program evaluation surveys, and synthesizing data into actionable reports for leadership. Additionally, the role takes a technical lead in executing, hosting, and managing the logistics for both virtual and in-person educational events aimed at the national academic user community. For more information, please visit: https://www.sdsc.edu/
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Professional certification preferred. Demonstrated effective organization and project management skills. Demonstrated expertise creating, distributing, collecting, analyzing, and presenting results of large complex surveys using experience management software such as Qualtrics. Ability to generate reports with effective executive level summaries and detailed technical project details. Working knowledge of technology-related initiatives and an understanding of impact to the organization of such initiatives. Comfortable working with academic scientists and engineers, across scientific communities and with senior level personnel, also including research and education domains served by the National Science Foundation. Broad knowledge of many aspects of computing and communications. Experience with outreach and marketing concepts along with strategies to reach an academic, research, government and industrial audience. Experience in developing and connecting KPIs to goals and metrics of national-scale projects involving multiple distributed teams supporting tens of thousands of users. Meeting facilitation skills, including ability to clarify complex ideas and broker consensus among disparate stakeholders. Demonstrated skills in organizing complex multi-day events, effectively managing agendas, communication, fiscal responsibility, staff requirements and leading meetings from concept to completion.