IT - Project Manager III

Overview

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Description

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic IT Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of non-clinical application projects across our organization.  This role focuses on enterprise systems such as HR, Finance, Supply Chain, Facilities, and other administrative applications that support the business side of healthcare operations. The IT Project Manager will ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with organizational goals.  This individual will be leading IT application integrations, implementations, and/or upgrades for a large complex Healthcare IT organization, and ideally will have similar experience.  Examples of some of the technology streams this IT PM will support include but may not be limited to:  UKG Time Tracking and Scheduling, OnBase Document Management Solution, Supply Chain and Accounts Payable, Archive and Decommissions, Public Safety (Duress, Badging/Access Control, Video Surveillance, Weapons Detection, Facial Recognition, Visitor Management), and RTLS.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinates, plans, supports, and executes enterprise-wide IT projects.
• Provides strategic input for project plan development, budget, and scope.
• Manages the Project Management Life Cycle from beginning to end and establishes cohesion for achieving multi-disciplinary stakeholder and project team buy-in.
• Applies industry-accepted methodologies (i.e., Project Management Institute [PMI]) to ensure adherence to project management standards and requirements and to provide stakeholders with continual reports on project progress and performance. Assists and supports Project Management Office (PMO) employees.
• Performs project management research to improve and refine skills and to identify trends and best practices for improving PMO performance.
• Meets with stakeholders to validate business cases and to gather facts for establishing and gaining agreement on project charters.
• Creates project charters and analyzes business cases to validate and clarify issues, justify use of project resources and to anticipate risks.
• Consults with project sponsors to clarify project directives, scopes, deliverables, and timelines and to analyze risk.
• Conducts bid sessions and/or vendor RFP efforts to select and manage suppliers and supplier payments.
• Applies PM tools and methodologies to ensure project milestones are achieved and scope is maintained.
• Observes project team dynamics to ensure effective team member synergies and to resolve issues.
• Creates progressive project milestones for facilitating smaller-scale achievements and to motivate the project team.
• Gathers and analyzes project metrics to evaluate project performance and to manage issues, risk and changes of scope.
• Utilizes PM tools to manage project timelines and accuracy, ensure project resource commitments are met, and to track activities and variances.
• Performs assessments throughout projects to identify risks and potential impact and to develop response strategies for managing and mitigating risk factors.
• Closes project contracts to validate supplier statements of work (SOWs) and verify deliverables.
• Conducts project management research and studies trends and developments under the direction of the PMO Director to support PMO team members and industry colleagues.
• Determine project goals and priorities in consultation with Governance committees, CIO, EHCIS Directors and Managers, LITS Directors, Vendors or other key stakeholders.
• Assist in selecting project team members.
• Review quality of work and manage the integration of team members work.
• Provide performance input to the team members functional manager.
• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the projects objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them.
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