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Project Manager - DUHS Nursing and Patient Care ServicesDuke Clinical Research Institute • Durham, NC, United States
Project Manager - DUHS Nursing and Patient Care Services

Project Manager - DUHS Nursing and Patient Care Services

Duke Clinical Research Institute • Durham, NC, United States
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At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

Join Duke University Health System as a Project Manager for Nursing and Patient Care Services and be at the forefront of driving innovation and transformational change across the system. In this pivotal role, you'll lead high-impact initiatives from planning through execution, ensuring measurable outcomes that advance patient care and operational excellence.

What You'll Do :

  • Align projects at the program level with organizational goals.
  • Build integrated project schedules from detailed work plans.
  • Guide and inspire cross-functional teams to achieve milestones.
  • Communicate progress and results to stakeholders with clarity and confidence.

What It Takes :

  • Proven project management expertise.
  • A collaborative mindset and ability to influence across diverse teams.
  • Passion for innovation and improving healthcare delivery.
  • DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :

    NOTE : The following are the duties performed by employees in this classification. However, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual in the classification.

  • Manages multiple projects throughout project life cycle (initiation "discovery" through closing)
  • Develops and manages project schedules; analyzes schedule to identify critical path and measure project progress.
  • Collaborate with executive sponsors to develop weekly team meeting agendas.
  • Facilitate project meetings to drive deliverables.
  • Document meeting notes and decisions to ensure clear communication and accountability.
  • Manages risk, identifies potential risks, and communicates with project leadership to establish mitigation plans to eliminate or reduce risk factors.
  • Monitors and measures the health of the project indicator to facilitate escalations or competing interests to assist in driving resolutions.
  • Drive the project team members to meet milestones and high quality, on time deliverables.
  • Support analysis of time study and pre- and post-implementation data as it relates to care model decision support.
  • Ensure workflows are documented using another project management appropriate tools.
  • Emphasize key touchpoints and communication channels within workflows.
  • Partner with the co-chairs to design a change management strategy for piloting the new care models or innovations.
  • Collaborate with communications teams, nursing teams, and nursing leadership to keep staff informed and engaged throughout the pilots, facilitating regular updates and success stories.
  • Develop and drive comprehensive communications plans to ensure alignment and transparency across all stakeholders.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Education

    Work requires communications, analytical and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program.

    Experience

  • Work requires the ability to plan and deliver on project objectives and to direct team activities towards strategic goals, generally acquired through four years of related experience or any other equivalent combination of relevant education and / or experience.
  • Five or more years of professional experience managing complex deliverables and coordinating the activities of diverse stakeholder groups.
  • Project management experience.
  • Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred.
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Stakeholder management - ability to communicate clearly and to build bridges across diverse stakeholder groups from the executive to the front-line level.
  • Communications skills and excellence in delivering oral and written presentations.
  • Able to set priorities, organize and manage multiple tasks independently.
  • Anticipates needs; takes a proactive approach to work.
  • Ability to meet deadlines and to hold team members accountable for meeting deadlines.
  • Extremely strong attention to details; focus on quality of deliverables and project outcomes.
  • Ability to coordinate and organize efficient meetings and events.
  • Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.

    Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas-an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

    Essential Physical Job Functions :

    Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and / or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

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