Project Manager

IT Project Manager

This position is within the IT PMO department and may work on IT projects across the IT organization associated with Telehealth, Data analytics, Digital Health Infrastructure, Informatics and other functions. This position is responsible for project planning and management, systems analysis, project budgeting, risk and issue management, status reporting and other project management activities.

The role will interact with all levels of IT management and staff and will work with a high degree of independence and decision-making. You will lead the implementation of projects working with cross functional teams, and subject matter experts throughout the delivery process. This includes all aspects of business systems implementation from requirements gathering, analysis and design, configuration and test, through deployment and support of various applications and systems. Highly effective leadership and communication skills to diverse audiences are essential. May be required to occasionally, with notice, work outside traditional business hours to meet critical needs of the Information Technology division.

Experienced technical project manager with a high degree of knowledge in the field of IT and ideally in a healthcare provider setting. Ability to effectively analyze unique issues/problems without precedent and/or structure and problem solve collaboratively. This position will manage projects and programs that will require the ability to plan, analyze, implement, and oversee multiple projects simultaneously. The position requires formulating processes, and functions with a high degree of autonomy.

Applies advanced technical project management frameworks and methods for IT functional teams and organizations to resolve highly complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. The project manager will assess methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to obtain results; and manages projects of broad and diverse scope, size, impact, budget and/or project team size, with considerable impact to the organization.

Essential Functions

• Applies advanced technical project management concepts with a full understanding of project management practices and IT policies and procedures to manage complex projects.
• Has overall project management responsibility of assigned Programs and Projects.
• Directs project activities with the goal of completing the project on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Oversees the project from initiation through delivery including system integration, interaction with vendors and risk management.
• Independently builds project plans, timeline, and milestones/deliverables. Creates and maintains up-to-date project timelines and schedules.
• Independently schedule, lead, and document project meetings with IT staff, end users/stakeholders and vendors. Document meeting minutes, follow up tasks, issues, and key decisions
• Manages action items, issue logs, and deliverables from internal team and vendor. Identifies barriers and unforeseen risks. Escalates issues and decisions as appropriate to IT manager and others.
• Ensures work assignments are clear to all staff. Communicates and interacts with executive management to establish and monitor project objectives and milestones.
• Be aware, knowledgeable, and actively enforce all relevant UCDH technical and privacy policies.
• Applies technical expertise and business analysis concepts to identify, evaluate and define complex systems scope and objectives with an understanding of applicable business practices, processes, systems and industry standards to meet end-user needs.
• Analyzes current documentation and data flows, and documents requirements to reflect appropriate work flows.
• Conduct analysis to define requirements, tasks, dependencies, costs, risks, timelines and staffing needs.
• Develop system functionality and tools to meet organizational and department needs, in collaboration with end users.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Required:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
• Mastery of best practices in project management discipline required, including extensive understanding of multiple project management methodologies (e.g., SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, etc.).
• Extensive project planning, leadership and analysis experience with significant advanced experience as a Project Manager leading large scale IT projects independently is required.
• Ability to manage and lead diverse groups, peers, vendors and a wide variety of technical and non-technical staff at all levels in a highly matrix environment to meet project milestones and schedules.
• Understands how projects relate to other business strategies and initiatives.
• Understands the cost impact of projects, project tracking tools and metrics.
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, organizes work, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to create and manage time schedules, manages multiple activities and priorities, and maintains productivity.
• Demonstrated capacity to anticipate obstacles and plan for contingencies.
• Skills to analyze complex information or problems in an objective manner and derives logical conclusions to provide a sound basis for establishing priorities, selecting appropriate courses of action for pursuit or recommendations to others, and to resolve.
• Excellent communicator; comfortable and effective in opening channels of communication, listening to others, and cultivating a healthy, productive, and ongoing dialogue.
• Ability to communicate with all levels within and outside of IT, include application and technology vendors.
• Demonstrated effective writing skills including the ability to analyze data from multiple sources, conduct research, perform analysis of diverse information, and prepare and present meaningful reports and briefs.
• Sound understanding of typical vendor provided application agreements for on-going support, maintenance updates, application upgrades, and end-of-product support.
• Ability to recognize the need for and maintain security of confidential information; exercise judgment, tact, and discretion in handling sensitive or confidential information or situations.

Preferred:

• Relevant PM Certification or education (PMP or equivalent) preferred.
• 5 - 15 years of Project Management experience preferred.
• Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Project, ServiceNow (PPM) or other project management tools.
• Broad foundational knowledge of business applications and hardware technologies (servers, databases, etc).
• Experience with large integrated health systems (provider) experience preferred.
• Experience with integrated multi-vendor applications preferred.
• Experience leading projects with contractors/consultants preferred.
• Experience with system interfaces is preferred.
• Working knowledge of technology-related initiatives and an understanding of impact to the organization of such initiatives. Knowledge and understanding of University policies and procedures is preferred.

Role Specific:

• Informatics, Data Analytics including analytical tools
• Telehealth, digital health

Required Skills: - Strong Sr PMs, ideally in healthcare (hospital / clinical provider setting will be the winner) - Specifically, competency in telehealth/digital health, clinical operations or informatics would be ideal - All of this relates to clinical applications, so we need Apps PMs: - Data management - Informatics or data analytics - Clinical ops - Telehealth / digital health - Understanding that what you do directly impacts patient's lives high level of customer service - Broad IT knowledge and experience is ideal because they can pivot to other roles Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: 100% remote Background Check: Yes Drug Screen: Yes Notes: Prefer W2 candidates but C2C should work. Selling points for candidate: 100% remote Project Verification Info: Exclusive to Apex: No Face to face interview required: No Candidate must be local: No Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship: No Interview times set: :No Type of project: Project Management Office Master Job Title: Proj.