Scientific Project & Alliance Manager​/SeaHub

Overview

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Scientific Project & Alliance Manager, Sea Hub

The mission of the Allen Institute is to unlock the complexities of bioscience and advance our knowledge to improve human health. Using an open science, multi-scale, team-oriented approach, the Allen Institute focuses on accelerating foundational research, developing standards and models, and cultivating new ideas to make a broad, transformational impact on science.

The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (Sea Hub), a two-year-old initiative at the intersection of academic creativity and start-up style execution. Our mission is to reimagine living cells and genomes as devices for recording biology and diagnostic information over time, as well as for encoding real-time therapeutic decision-making. Take off with us as we imagine — and create — a kind of cellular flight recorder that can also seize the controls.

Sea Hub is looking for a Scientific Project Manager with a scientific background in synthetic biology, genomics, a similar field, as well as demonstrated ability as a Project Manager. As a leader, collaborator and effective communicator, the Project Manager must be able to drive momentum and build consensus, working at the interface of multi-disciplinary teams. The successful candidate will join our Operations team.

The Operations team supports the scientific teams focused on expanding our abilities to engineer cells and genomes to autonomously “Sense,” “Write,” “Read,” and “Act” at a molecular level. The Scientific Project Manager will be working with both the operations and scientific staff to track current research platform experiments, timelines and milestones and deliverables, and disseminate the data, knowledge and tools broadly with the community, to accelerate research within the field.

The role may expand to support new internal or externally awarded projects.

At the Allen Institute, we believe that science is for everyone – and should be open to everyone. We are dedicated to combating biases and reducing barriers to STEM careers more broadly.

We also believe that science is better when it includes different perspectives and voices. We strive to make the Allen Institute a place where everyone feels like they belong and are empowered to do their best work in a supportive environment.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for our open positions.

• In partnership with scientific team leads, serve as the Project Manager to ensure the successful execution of project deliverables
• Support cross-functional teams throughout the project life cycle (planning and execution)
• Plan and organize internal project meetings with clear agendas, expected outcomes, and follow-up on project-related actions
• Plan and organize face-to-face meetings with internal and external collaborators
• Create, maintain, and disseminate project deliverables and timelines, using project management best practices and tools, including database build and management
• Contribute to fiscal management of the project, including budget planning, resource forecasting, expenditure monitoring
• Implement communication plans to promote effective dialogue among all team members
• Ensure appropriate communication with all project stakeholders regarding timelines and status, deadlines, data requirements, and other project-related matters
• Keep project milestones/deliverables on track, monitoring and identifying at-risk deliverables
• Transparently communicate issues, and work with team members to identify options and implement mitigation strategies
• Facilitate and support preparation for internal and external program reviews
• May partner with scientific staff to develop competitive external funding applications (Federal and Private), including applications of significant complexity (multiple parties and administrative coordination). Ensure that Grants Management best practices are followed
• Support post-award execution of externally funded efforts in audit-compliant fashion…