Job Type
Full-time
Description
Position Details: Job Title: Scientific Project Manager
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Remote, MD
About the Role: The Scientific Project Manager supports the planning, coordination, and execution of scientific, technical, and data-focused projects. The role combines project-management responsibilities with hands-on support for scientific data operations, documentation, workflow coordination, and cross-functional delivery.
The Scientific Project Manager serves as a bridge between scientific subject matter experts, technical teams, project leadership, customers, and other stakeholders. The position is responsible for helping translate project goals and requirements into organized, actionable work; maintaining visibility into priorities and deliverables; coordinating activities across team members; and supporting the accurate and efficient management of scientific data and related processes.
The balance between project management and scientific-data responsibilities may vary based on project requirements.
Roles & Responsibilities: Project Management and Operational Coordination - Support planning and execution of scientific and technical projects using established project management and Agile delivery practices.
- Translate project objectives, customer requirements, stakeholder feedback, and team decisions into actionable activities, milestones, schedules, and work items.
- Coordinate activities across scientific, technical, data, development, and other cross-functional team members.
- Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other recurring delivery activities, as applicable.
- Maintain project-management systems and ensure work items reflect current priorities, ownership, status, dependencies, and completion criteria.
- Track milestones, schedules, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, action items, and deliverables.
- Proactively follow up on assigned activities and identify work that is delayed, blocked, or requires clarification.
- Support evaluation of competing priorities and sequencing of work based on project objectives, dependencies, and available resources.
- Coordinate meetings, prepare agendas and supporting materials, document decisions and action items, and track follow-up through completion.
- Maintain organized and current project documentation.
- Support preparation of project status reports, customer updates, presentations, and other project communications.
- Identify project risks or operational concerns and escalate issues to appropriate project or organizational leadership.
- Support testing, quality-assurance, User Acceptance Testing, release coordination, or other validation activities as applicable to the project.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of project processes, templates, workflows, and delivery practices.
Scientific Data Management and Operations - Support coordination, organization, and management of scientific and technical data throughout the project lifecycle.
- Assist with scientific data onboarding, extraction, transformation, curation, quality review, and integration activities.
- Support development and maintenance of reproducible and scalable data-management workflows.
- Coordinate scientific data activities across subject matter experts, analysts, developers, data specialists, and other project personnel.
- Support metadata organization, terminology harmonization, controlled vocabularies, data standards, and related data-governance activities.
- Maintain documentation supporting scientific data traceability, quality, and reproducibility.
- Assist with maintenance of data dictionaries, process documentation, workflow diagrams, and related scientific or technical artifacts.
- Support scientific quality-control activities and coordinate resolution of data questions, discrepancies, or required corrections.
- Assist with evaluation and organization of external scientific data sources and repositories.
- Support interoperability activities involving scientific databases, APIs, ontologies, metadata standards, or other external systems.
- Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, consistency, scalability, and transparency of scientific data processes.
- Assist with preparation of scientific reports, presentations, briefing materials, demonstrations, and other project deliverables.
- Support scientific stakeholder engagement and coordination activities as required by individual project needs.
Required Professional Skills: - Bachelor's degree or higher in a scientific, technical, data, project management, or related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating projects, scientific operations, laboratory operations, research activities, data workflows, technical operations, or comparable multidisciplinary work.
- Experience coordinating people, tasks, schedules, workflows, or recurring deliverables.
- Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to manage detailed work across multiple priorities.
- Experience working with scientific, technical, or quantitative data.
- Ability to translate project objectives and stakeholder needs into clearly defined activities and follow-up actions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate, high-quality work.
- Ability to identify unclear requirements and proactively seek clarification.
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn new tools, processes, technologies, and scientific domains.
- Ability to work independently within established project objectives, priorities, and processes.
Preferred Professional Skills: - Advanced degree in a scientific, technical, data, or related discipline.
- Experience coordinating laboratory, research, scientific-data, or technical workflows.
- Experience assigning or coordinating work across multiple individuals or functional areas.
- Experience preparing recurring reports, deliverables, or data products for internal or external stakeholders.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or other iterative project-delivery approaches.
- Experience with project management and collaboration platforms such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, GitHub, or similar tools.
- Experience with scientific databases, data pipelines, metadata, ontologies, controlled vocabularies, or data-standardization activities.
- Familiarity with Python, R, SQL, workflow-management platforms, APIs, or other scientific-data technologies.
- Experience supporting software or data-system testing, validation, or User Acceptance Testing.
- Experience supporting government, academic, research, healthcare, or other scientific organizations.
- CAPM, PMP, Scrum, or related project-management certification, or interest in pursuing formal project management certification.
Dynanet Team Requirements and Expectations: - Possess Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized with the ability to prioritize, balance, and effectively advance multiple competing priorities in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to interact in a professional and collaborative manner with fellow Dynanet Teammates and the clients, and business partners that we work with.
- Ability and desire to challenge and educate yourself to support and advance IT services delivery in the Federal agencies we serve.
- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills.
- Respond to team member and client requests via email, MS teams, or other communication means during core business hours.
- Active listening skills to understand clients' needs, and collaboration skills to work with other developers and designers.
Core Competencies: Organization and Execution - Creates structure around complex or detailed work.
- Establishes clear priorities and tracks activities through completion.
- Maintains accurate records of commitments, decisions, deadlines, and dependencies.
- Recognizes when follow-up is required and acts proactively.
Communication and Collaboration - Communicates clearly with scientific, technical, and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Asks thoughtful clarifying questions when information or expectations are incomplete.
- Facilitates communication across disciplines and helps ensure shared understanding.
- Documents decisions and requirements accurately and consistently.
Scientific and Data Aptitude - Demonstrates curiosity about the scientific context underlying project activities.
- Understands the importance of data quality, provenance, traceability, and reproducibility.
- Learns unfamiliar scientific concepts and data structures effectively.
- Recognizes when specialized scientific or technical expertise is required.
Learning and Adaptability - Demonstrates initiative in developing new skills and seeking relevant training.
- Adapts to changing project priorities, customer needs, and technical environments.
- Incorporates feedback into working practices.
- Applies established processes while identifying opportunities for improvement.
Accountability - Takes ownership of assigned responsibilities.
- Follows through on commitments and supports accountability across the team.
- Identifies potential delivery risks early.
- Escalates issues appropriately rather than allowing unresolved problems to persist.
Expected Outcomes: - Provide consistent and reliable coordination of assigned project activities.
- Maintain clear visibility into priorities, status, risks, dependencies, and upcoming deliverables.
- Ensure project decisions and requirements are translated into documented, actionable work.
- Facilitate effective coordination between scientific and technical team members.
- Support accurate, traceable, and reproducible scientific data processes.
- Improve the organization and efficiency of project and data management workflows.
- Build trusted working relationships with project leadership, team members, customers, and stakeholders.
Education/Experience Requirements: - Bachelor's degree or higher in a scientific, technical, data, project management, or related discipline.
- 5+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting or coordinating scientific, technical, laboratory, research, data, or project operations, including demonstrated responsibility for schedules, workflows, personnel coordination, recurring deliverables, or stakeholder reporting.
- CAPM, PMP, Scrum, or related project-management certification, or interest in pursuing formal project management certification.
Employee Benefits Overview: - Industry Competitive Compensation
- Medical and Dental Insurance
- Paid Time Off/Holidays
- 401(k) Retirement Plans with Matching
- Remote Work*
- Paid Training
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Development Program
