Research Project Manager, Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC)

Exempt

Immediately

Salary commensurate with experience

40 hours weekly

Office of Health Affairs

A resume and letter of interest is required to apply. Candidates under final consideration will also be required to submit professional references, college degree information, and employment history to an online third-party vendor.

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans — and people all over the world — through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, four health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 160,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System’s thirteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do. To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.

To track implementation and impact of multiple projects across 12 Health Related Institutions (HRIs) providing services as part of the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) and Health Affairs Special Projects.

• Provides oversight on multiple concurrent TCMHCC and other Health Affairs projects of varying size, serving as a liaison to project/program management staff at HRIs, other Consortium organizations, and project stakeholders.
• Ensures collaboration with key functional partners in the implementation of initiatives.
• Sets up and monitors grant cycles and supports the TCMHCC New and Emerging Child Mental Researchers grant with all activities to include setting up and updating grant software, development of the notice of funding opportunity, monitoring applications, coordinating review process, reviewing and summarizing PI reports and expenditures, and reviewing and approving invoices.
• Supports the Data Dissemination and Publication Committee by supporting meetings and reviews and tracking requests and decisions.
• Leads and facilitates discussions and meetings with TCMHCC internal and external evaluation team to drive project planning, execution, decision-making, and issue resolution, ensuring projects stay on track.
• Develops TCMHCC special reports and ad hoc reports using PowerBI, Stata, tableau and/or SAS.
• Supports the TCMHCC with technical issues associated with SharePoint and Teams.
• Identifies trends based on TCMHCC Data and Research project/program reporting and performance metrics, highlighting potential issues/barriers and best practices, and coordinating resolution activities.
• Helps with coordination of data requests received by the TCMHCC.
• Creates, monitors, and modifies TCMHCC project plans, tracking all aspects of initiatives, including interdependencies, milestones, risks, issues, lessons learned, communications, project resources, and spending. Regularly updates Senior Program Manager on project statuses.
• Develops and maintains TCMHCC program policies associated with data, data security and technology use in collaboration with project/program management staff at UT System and HRIs and key functional partners.
• Coordinates with Healthier Texas on the Healthier Texas Summit, including reviewing presentation proposals.
• Supports and manages all aspects of the Brain Health Research Summit, including coordination of the agenda, identification of speakers, procurement of venue and oversight of budget.
• Provides project management support to other various Health Affairs special projects including the Texas Health Improvement Network (THIN).
• Assists with assessment of technology requests, issues, and solutions associated with the collection of data and the tracking of information and reports.
• Produces regular project status reports and other project-/program-related reports as directed by leadership.
• Prepares and delivers presentations related to project/program progress to internal and external stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Must be self-directed and able to work independently while facilitating the efforts of multiple cross-functional teams.
• Must be organized, capable of rapidly isolating and resolving risks and issues, and have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to work with internal and external staff at varied levels of an organization.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 5 years’ recent experience (in the last ten years), including experience managing research projects as an individual contributor in a health-related field.

• Master’s degree in a health-related field.
• Experience working for an institution or government agency.
• Experience working with Project Online, Stata, SAS, Tableau and with grant software preferred.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office applications (such as Excel, Teams, and SharePoint) and PowerBI are strongly preferred.

• May work around standard office conditions
• 10% Travel
• Requires occasional evening or weekend hours
• Hybrid work environment (remote & office)

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to a minimum of 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. Participation in TRS is mandatory.

A background check will be conducted on candidates under final consideration. The background check may include any or all of the following: criminal history check, prior employment verification, education verification, professional references check, and motor vehicle records check. Background checks are conducted by third-party vendors. Upon request form the third-party vendor, candidates under final consideration must provide the required information for the background checks to be completed.

The University of Texas System Administration is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees in all terms and conditions of employment. U. T. System will provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state laws.

For information on accommodations for individuals with disabilities, please contact the Office of Talent and Innovation at oti@utsystem.edu.