Project Manager (Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative)

The James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence was established in 2010 to promote improvement efforts aimed at providing the best outcomes and safest care for the children and families we serve. The Anderson Center guides health services research at Cincinnati Children’s and works to spread its impact into clinical practice and policy. On a national scale, the Center helps build and support sustainable collaborative Learning Networks that measurably improve health by bringing patients, families, clinicians and scientists together, and that use data for clinical care, improvement and research to achieve population outcomes at scale.

We invite you to consider joining our team to reduce preterm births and equitably improve maternal and birth outcomes across Ohio. Launched in 2008, the Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative (OPQC) is a statewide consortium of perinatal clinicians, hospitals, and policy makers and governmental entities that aims, through the use of improvement science, to reduce preterm births and improve maternal and birth outcomes across Ohio. OPQC involves subject matter experts, uses successful evidence-informed strategies, and employs data-driven quality improvement methods and well-accepted project management processes. Success comes from a collaborative approach that builds upon an established network of OPQC-member hospitals with a history of executing successful statewide quality improvement initiatives.

This role will require application of advanced project management methodologies, including ongoing strategic planning, design and development of core infrastructure, and setting priorities and establishing and executing plans for multiple, concurrent projects under the Network’s umbrella.  You will be responsible for developing a nimble, multi-disciplinary team of individuals across collaborating organizations. A propensity to learn and adapt to the needs and pace of the project is expected, as well as the desire to coach and mentor other project management team members

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Project Management Consultation & Process/Quality Improvement - Collaborates with others to connect, implement and evaluate other project plans organization-wide. Identify, develop, and implement new methods, processes, and systems to improve and facilitate the team's work. Identify ways to improve data quality and usability and to streamline and enhance reporting processes and/or deliverables. Identify and recommend procedures to enhance or maintain a high level of effectiveness in projects. Work with functional leads to monitor and document information related to the projects. Assist in defining measurements and outcomes. May assist with both facilitation of teams assigned to the project and direct management of project management resources. Coach and mentor project team members. Understand and successfully perform the role of Supervisor (as appropriate). .

• Project Management Leadership - Engage clients and stakeholders, negotiate project scope as needed, and communicate with client throughout the project. Identify resources needed, such as information, expertise, personnel, and instruments and problem-solve gaps. Lead project teams and direct work of others while assuming final responsibility for the result.

• Data Analysis/Reporting - Conduct/ support complex qualitative and quantitative analysis of project data, summarize findings, draw appropriate conclusions, and effectively communicate results to team. Manage and direct regulatory/ reporting activities related to projects (e.g., IRB, updates/ reports to funding agencies, etc.)

• Communication & Relationship Management - Manage communication to and relationships with key project stakeholders. Compose, edit, and deliver written and verbal communications. Facilitate small group discussions. Keep team members appropriately informed.

• Strategic Planning - Strategize with project, program and department leadership to develop plans to advance objectives. Foster critical thinking on top issues and opportunities. Work in collaboration to establish goals and objectives, prioritize key objectives and work with the team to meet the goals and objectives. Strategize and recommend infrastructure necessary to execute selected projects & processes.

Direct Reports (TBD) Large volume and/or Complexity of Projects. Complexity defined as a combinati