IT Project Manager III - Epic

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

 

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

 

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. These values are grounded in and expressed through the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an anti-racist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, anti-racism and inclusion.

 

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple projects concurrently, helping coordinate IT Intake, project resourcing, and facilitating cross-functional work efforts within the IT department. In addition to implementation focused project management, this role will also be responsible for overseeing the IT portfolio of work and communicating resource needs between IT and the business. This role will work closely with leadership across IT, Enterprise Project Management, and organizational leaders.

The Technical Project Manager is a senior level position and will require demonstrated skills in project management, agile methodology, portfolio management, and business analysis. This position will participate in the continued evolution and maturity of the IT Intake process and will act as the bridge between IT and organizational strategy and planning.

Responsibilities

Project Planning/Implementation:

• Plan, coordinate, and implement projects as assigned by the manager.
• Develop the Project Charter.
• Define project goals, deliverables, and scope.
• Define project requirements.
• Define technical resource requirements.
• Identify project risks, and developing mitigation plans.
• Track and creatively resolve issues that relate to the project.
• Maintain project documentation.
• Project governance.

Portfolio Management:

• Track the volume of requests of the IT department.
• Develop a method and tool to maintain visibility of the IT portfolio of projects in all phases.
• Develop a process to track and report out on capacity across IT teams.
• Promote awareness of time spent on keep the lights on work, internal work, and externally requested work.

Collaboration:

• Work successfully with multidisciplinary project teams. This involves interacting with many different levels of staff, alliance partners and affiliated organizations and working with resource managers to obtain resource assignments
• Work successfully with deeply technical resources
• Work with team members to obtain quality project deliverables
• Exhibit objectivity and openness to others' views; give and welcome feedback

Communication:

• Effectively use written and oral communication skills. This includes meeting facilitation; the efficient use of e-mail; creation of clear, concise project documents and presentations.
• Provide appropriate status updates to sponsors and stakeholders.

Flexibility:

• Successfully manage multiple projects in varied environments and adapt to different project needs, constraints, and barriers
• Perform other/additional duties in support of Information Technology as needed.

Technology and Methodology Skills:

• Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills in Technical Project Management/Portfolio Management Methodologies.
• Stays knowledgeable in applicable areas of expertise i.e., Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile/Lean/Scrum management, Business Process Improvement Methodo