University of Vermont
Cancer Center Programs Project Manager
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Burlington, VT
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $68K - $78K
💻 Project Management
🗓️ December 20th, 2025
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- Manage project lifecycles of cancer center funding awards and coordinate review committees.
- Notify awardees about funding allocations and track progress through project completion.
- Collaborate with finance partners and the office of sponsored projects for sub-awards.
- Required to have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent 3-5 years project management experience including budgeting in collaborative settings.
- Strong communication, interpersonal skills, and multitasking ability essential.
- Ability to work independently, manage complex processes with strict deadlines, and reprioritize tasks.
- Desirable experience includes working with diverse professional teams and process development skills.
- Annual salary range is $68,000 to $78,000.
- Position is full-time (37.5 hours/week) and exempt with a possible probationary period and a hybrid work schedule option.
- Position is unionized under UVMSU and requires a background check.
Cancer Center Programs Project Manager Full Description
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| Advertising/Posting Title | Cancer Center Programs Project Manager |
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| Posting Summary | Provide high level project management services for UVM Cancer Center internally and philanthropically funded awards. This includes the management of review committees, notification of funding allocations to awardees, and tracking projects through end of funds. Work collaboratively with finance partners to steward funding and partner with the office of sponsored projects (SPA) when projects include sub-awards to external institutions. |
| Minimum Qualifications (or equivalent combination of education and experience) | Bachelor’s degree, or equivalence to 3-5 years of related experience with project management, including budgeting, in a highly collaborative, deadline-driven environment. In addition, strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to multi-task are required. Perform duties with high levels of independence and autonomy, independently manage complex processes with strict deadlines, work to achieve operational targets, and maintain flexibility to reprioritize. |
| Desirable Qualifications | Previous experience working in teams with diverse professional backgrounds, ability to independently reprioritize, and interest in developing new departmental processes for project management. |
| Anticipated Pay Range | $68,000 - $78,000 |
| Other Information | |
| Special Conditions | A probationary period may be required, This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule with an option to split time between campus and elsewhere, in accordance with the university telecommuting policy, Background Check required for this position |
| FLSA | Exempt |
| Union Position | Yes, UVMSU |
Position will be posted for a minimum of one week, after which it is subject to removal without notice.
| Job Location | Burlington, Vermont, United States |
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| Job Open Date | 12/19/2025 |
| Job Close Date (Jobs close at 11:59 PM EST.) | |
| Open Until Filled | No |
The University of Vermont is a welcoming, educationally purposeful community committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces intellectual diversity and global perspectives. We seek to prepare students to be accountable leaders who will bring to their work a grasp of complexity, effective problem-solving and communication skills, and an enduring commitment to learning and ethical conduct. Members of the University of Vermont community embrace and advance the values of Our Common Ground: Respect, Integrity, Innovation, Openness, Justice, and Responsibility. Staff play a critical role in this effort and the successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to UVM’s mission and advancing Our Common Ground values through the execution of their job duties.
| Position Title | Project/Prgm Mgmt PC2 X |
|---|---|
| Posting Number | S5877PO |
| Department | Vermont Cancer Center/55060 |
| Position Number | 00027758 |
| Percent of Full-Time | 1.0 |
| Standard Hours at 1.0 FTE | 37.5 |
| Term (months per year) | 12 |
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