Manager, Knight Programs (Program Director 2) in Portland, Oregon at Oregon Health & Science University

Manager, Knight Programs (Program Director 2)

US-OR-Portland

Requisition ID: 2026-38795
Position Category: Management/Supervisory
Job Type: Unclassified Administrative
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Posting Department: OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Posting Salary Range: $118,810 - $201,968 per year with offer based on experience, education and internal equity
Posting FTE: 1.00
Posting Schedule: Monday through Friday
Posting Hours: 8:30am to 5:00pm plus occasional nights and weekends
HR Mission: Central Services
Drug Testable: No

Department Overview

The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute is an internationally recognized leader in cancer research and care, powered by a historic $2 billion gift from Phil and Penny Knight. With a bold mission to revolutionize cancer prevention, detection, and treatment, we offer an environment where innovation thrives, collaboration is central, and your work can have a lasting impact. The institute cultivates a welcoming and supportive environment for caregivers, researchers, and support personnel.

Every Knight Cancer employee is expected to embody our guiding principles:

• We act BOLDLY—Breakthroughs require pushing the boundaries of science, exploring new frontiers, and thinking differently
• We SUPPORT each other—Respect leads to trust, which leads to excellence
• We work as a CONNECTED team—We must leverage our collective brain power to conquer cancer because no one individual can do it alone

Function/Duties of Position

This Program Manager is responsible for the coordinated management of multiple related projects and initiatives to achieve strategic organizational objectives by traversing the research, clinical, and administrative arms of the Knight Cancer Institute. Working closely with the executive leadership of the Knight Cancer Institute (CFO, CEO, CXO, and CTO), the role operates at a higher, more strategic level, ensuring alignment across projects, optimizing shared resources, and delivering measurable business value. To do so, they must be able to provide leadership and apply project management principles to move complex, multi-institutional projects through to completion. They will be responsible for managing timelines and communication efforts, ensuring that all stakeholders are appropriately updated and can provide ongoing feedback to positively impact the direction and quality of the program deliverables. In addition, the Program Manager will be responsible for establishing new initiatives and partnerships.

The Program Manager will be expected to operate with objectivity, confidentiality, and professionalism. This individual must be comfortable with learning new skills, starting projects de novo, and pivoting projects and collaborators with ease. Experience and comfort using industry-standard Project Management methodologies and standard OHSU project management processes.

Duties include:

Program management

Manage portfolio of initiatives across the Knight Cancer Institute clinical, research, and administrative programs

• Triage and coordinate incoming project requests
• Ensure PM bandwidth, assign tasks to project team members, and monitor progress
• Manage project timelines to meet program goals
• Confirm budgetary alignment, perform feasibility studies and cost-benefit analyses to support project requests
• Collaborate with leadership to develop and implement strategic initiatives and to communicate required project/program decisions and other project needs
• Communicate project/program status information to project interest-bearing parties, management, and executive leadership
• Promote and facilitate teamwork within project team members, mentor Project Coordinators, and other team members on the practices and techniques of project management
• Use change management and facilitation strategies to ensure team buy-in, championship, and shared accountability

Project Management

Project management of all phases of high complexity projects, such as those characterized by:

• Project scope, requirements and risks are neither clear nor stable
• Span of project interest, input, and impact is large, including many parties of interest and points of input. Projects may be enterprise-wide, highly impactful, and highly visible
• Project may include niche, highly interdependent, or otherwise complex technology(ies), technical terms, and awareness

Conduct project kick-off, discovery, implementation, support, and milestone meetings, including:

• Develop, document, monitor, and control project scope, resource requirements, cost estimates, and schedules
• Collaborate with project sponsors, leadership, and interested parties on project decisions and needs
• Document, track, and communicate project decisions, risks, and issues
• Manage and influence project resources
• Create, facilitate, and execute project communication plans

Required Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or higher degree in relevant field AND 7 years of experience OR BS degree in relevant field and 10 years of relevant project management experience
• Experience as a Project/Program Leader managing and implementing large-scale complex projects/programs
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks at one time
• Ability to supervise multiple individuals in a complex system and provide support in terms of the responsibility of the individuals
• Excellent communication, analytical, and organizational skills: both written and verbal
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team while being collaborative in resolving problems
• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Access, Word, and PowerPoint) on Window OS. Ability to accurately type 60wpm
• Ability to use tact and diplomacy to maintain effective working relationships
• Must possess energy and drive to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
• Must have demonstrated excellent customer service skills both on the phone and in person

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in oncology preferred

Additional Details

Apply online. Please be sure to upload a Cover Letter and Resume/CV.

We offer a variety of benefits on top of joining a thriving organization:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage at no or low cost to employees
  • Covered 100% for full-time employees and 88% for dependents
• Several retirement plans to choose from with contributions from OHSU
• 25 days a year of paid time off
• 8 days of sick time off
• Commuter subsidies
• Tuition reimbursement
• Access to group life insurance, disability insurance and other supplemental benefits
• Annual Merit Increase
• Growth/Development Opportunities
• Employee discounts to local and major businesses

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