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IT Project Intermediate Manager

How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Division Overview

The Information Assurance: Michigan Medicine (IA:MM) team was established to protect systems, data, and identities that Michigan Medicine relies upon. The team educates and prepares staff and students for increasing cyber threats and proactively mitigates IT security risks in partnership with the greater U-M community. The IA:MM team enables teaching, learning, research, and healthcare in a large, open environment by helping to balance risks and threats. IA:MM collaborates and coordinates with university efforts and participates in the development of university-wide security, compliance, and privacy strategies and strives to implement best practice cybersecurity efforts.

Our Division's Mission

We serve as a trusted partner and provide a best-in-class security program to uphold and protect the mission of Michigan Medicine.

Our Division's Vision

We believe in cultivating a shared responsibility of security to enhance how we provide care, deliver education, and create innovation to protect the quality of healthcare.

Our Division's Principles

+ Prioritize your self-care, family-care, team-care, then the work.

+ Implement balanced assurance solutions.

+ Strengthen our department's capabilities.

+ Develop an assurance-minded workforce.

+ Focus on practical information assurance.

Job Summary

The University of Michigan's Information Assurance at Michigan Medicine (IA:MM) team is seeking interested candidates for an Intermediate Project Manager position. This role will manage multiple projects that are designed to safeguard institutional data.

As an Intermediate Project Manager, you oversee the planning and implementation of multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring that the budgeting, timelines, communication, risks and constraints are managed. You partner with a variety of technical and business teams across the organization to deliver on project scope. You navigate the complexities of project delivery with skill and professionalism and ensure stakeholders and project teams are well aligned.

Mission Statement

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Responsibilities*

As an Intermediate IT Project Manager, you are responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects, and you provide a single point of contact for those projects. You will take projects from the original concept through final implementation and will interface with all areas affected by the project including end users, computer services, and client services. You define project scope and objectives, and develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports. You manage the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables and provide technical and analytical guidance to project team. You recommend and take action to direct the analysis and solutions of problems. You have experience analyzing a situation, comparing and evaluating various courses of action and have the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of your responsibilities. Primary activities and decision-making authority are predominantly performed independently affecting business operations to a substantial degree.

Required Qualifications*

+ Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

+ 2-3 years of Information Assurance or IT related experience

+ 3+ years of experience facilitating projects at a large and complex organization.

Desired Qualifications*

+ 3+ years of experience with a variety of project management frameworks and methodologies, such as Waterfall, Agile, and SCRUM.

+ Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining deliverables such as project scope and plan, status reports, cost estimates, communication plan, presentations, risk management plan, milestone/project schedules.

+ Experience with four primary elements of information technology: information security, database and network management, computer technical support, and business software development.

+ Strong communication skills and business acumen.

+ Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills dealing with both IT and non-IT experienced audiences, including a diverse range of executives, faculty, IT staff, and vendors.

+ Demonstrated ability to comprehend and integrate large-scale projects to drive strategic direction.

+ Demonstrated successful performance with independent problem solving, presentations, leadership, and coordinating and completing multiple tasks within and across departments to meet changing deadlines.

+ Experience developing clear business case descriptions and scoping documents.

+ Demonstrated experience negotiating with a variety of constituencies, including technical and business groups, to achieve solutions that meet both technical and business needs.

+ Experience creating consensus in ambiguous situations, or when new information is learned and adjustments are needed.

Work Locations

This position is being made available with the ability for you to negotiate alternative work schedules and remote/on-site options to suit your work-life balance.

Non-Michigan residents should inquire about potential employment while working remotely in a state other than Michigan. Apply to be part of a strong team that partners with our institution, community, and each other.

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about thework modes (https://hr.umich.edu/working-u-m/my-employment/ways-we-work-resource-center/ways-we-work-implementation-group/modes-work) .

Additional Information

Benefits

We offer a benefits package that includes comprehensive training and career development opportunities, generous retirement savings plans, ample paid time off, and a wealth of family care support: https://careers.umich.edu/benefits

Background Screening

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Job Detail

Job Opening ID

269360

Working Title

IT Project Intermediate Manager

Job Title

IT Project Inter Manager

Work Location

Michigan Medicine - Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

Modes of Work

Mobile/Remote

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

FLSA Status

Exempt

Organizational Group

Exec Vp Med Affairs

Department

MM HITS IA Office of the CISO

Posting Begin/End Date

10/06/2025 - 10/20/2025

Career Interest

Information Technology