Project Manager - Cherng Family Center
City of Hope
Irvine, CA
Job posting number: #7324194 (Ref:10033486)
Posted: February 23, 2026
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Position Overview:
This project manager role will support City of Hope’s strategic initiatives by managing and coordinating projects of various sizes and scales under the direction of the Cherng Family Center Director and Executive Director. Specific responsibilities partnering with assigned internal researchers and clinicians to assist them and their teams in developing project plans; managing and reporting schedules, risks and issues; leveraging standardized project management toolkits; coordinating and facilitating meetings; developing presentations, papers, grants and deliverables to support project priorities and facilitate project decisions; and ensuring aligned communication across project teams, with internal researchers, clinicians, and management.
As a successful candidate, you will:
Responsible for all phases of project management including coordination, project plan development, schedule management, risk and issue management, communications and change management for assigned projects. Has experience managing 1-2 project workstreams and 5+ project resources.
- Produces analysis and presentations to support project priorities and facilitate project decisions
- Adapts enterprise and external best practice tools to meet the needs of assigned projects and project leads
- Working with the collaborators and participants to ensure prompt delivery of papers, grants and other deliverables with focus on quality and timeliness.
- Manages relationships with researchers and clinicians to ensure collaborative progress on individual projects.
- Exercises critical thinking and engages with all participating parties to ensure paper, grant and project deliverables.
Your qualifications should include:
Bachelors in Arts/Science or related discipline
- 2+ years of recent related industry experience
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $43.18 - $66.92 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
