Project Manager

The Department of Medicine is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead day-to-day operations of a multi-site clinical trial within a multi-year Department of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Health Administration (VA) research initiative focused on depression care, primary care integration, telehealth, and digital mental health interventions.

Reporting to the Principal Investigator and Management Services Officer, the Project Manager will oversee research and administrative operations to ensure alignment with project milestones, regulatory requirements, and sponsor expectations. This role coordinates across interdisciplinary teams-including physicians, mental health clinicians, statisticians, and implementation scientists-and represents the study in communications with research, operational, and policy stakeholders.

The ideal candidate should demonstrate strong independent judgment, organizational leadership, and the ability to manage complex, multi-site initiatives with minimal supervision.

Annual range: $70,900-$145,200

Required:

• Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams.
• Bachelor's degree and/or 4-5 years equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Exceptional writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
• Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.
• Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.
• Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including UCLA and VA CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations.
• Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
• Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.

Preferred:

• Demonstrated experience and possession of appropriate credentials (e.g., Without Compensation [WOC] appointment) required for working within the VA