Project Management Associate

What You Can Expect:

Our employees love Grand Itasca and Fairview Range for the stability, meaningful work, and our great team. Our organization is in the business of selecting employees that make the real difference, who go above and beyond to make our hospital/clinic run and work effectively. Are you someone looking to make a difference in the everyday functions? If so, Grand Itasca is where you belong!

We're glad you are thinking about joining us.

We're a non-profit organization with a clear vision of being the leader in transforming rural health care by achieving the highest levels of quality, access, and value. Our strength stems from teamwork and collaboration among a talented and diverse group of professionals. With over 700 employees in hundreds of different roles, our organization can offer a variety of career opportunities.

About the Position

• Regional Project Management Associate
• Full time, 1.0 FTE (80 hours/pay period)
• On-site at Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital (Grand Rapids, MN) and Fairview Range (Hibbing, MN)

Job Summary:

The Project Management Associate is responsible for independently initiating and leading strategic projects and programs in accordance with the healthcare and industry standards and best practices. The Project Management Associate will be tasked with engaging partners to resolve delivery challenges and reduce project impacts. They will be expected to identify, prioritize, and monitor resolution of cross-portfolio delivery risks, issues, and dependencies. Responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, and clear communication is provided to our customers and members.

Here's what you'll do when you join us:

• Effectively lead a project management team in a manner that ensures timely execution of project or program deliverables. Provide governance oversight to ensure project/program adherence to standards, policies, tools, and procedures. Guide project team members to consistently apply appropriate analysis principles during project analysis, design, and implementation phases.
• Creates a consultative partnership with executive sponsors and key stakeholders. Responsible for defining and managing overall project or program dashboard and roadmap. Responsible for identifying enterprise process impacts to ensure business readiness.
• Define the overall vision, objectives, and key deliverables for the project or program; identify and track key measures of success. Direct the development of comprehensive project plans that incorporate deliverables, accountabilities and timelines, communication plans and that utilize the project management tools for maintaining/tracking project plan and status (cost, scope, schedule, quality and value).
• Work effectively with business partners, vendors, and staff to develop the project or program agenda and ensure agreement/adoption of objectives/deliverables by affected constituencies. Provide proactive communication to project/program owners. Work to identify cross-organizational interdependencies and ensure appropriate integration to project plan. Effectively manage client expectations and resource requirements to ensure ownership and success.
• Provide day-to-day leadership for all project or program activities related to delivery of initiatives to ensure the project/program meets defined success criteria. Effectively manage risks and issues ensuring they are resolved in a timely manner. Work with business and technology leaders to recommend scope changes and integrate into the project structure.
• Coach and mentor leaders on project management for workforce development opportunities.

If you have these qualifications, we'd love to chat:

Required

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Experience

1. Strong executive presence and communication skills
2. Successful track record of delivering projects/programs/releases
3. Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of tools
4. Ability to formally present project related information in a clear, concise and persuasive manner
5. Excellent facilitation skills and ability to drive resolution to issues
6. Expert skills in project management methodologies, processes and industry standard