IT Project Manager

Overview

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

The project management roles are key contributors in the development of the organization's transformation strategy and are responsible and accountable for delivering the best-practice approach designed to successfully plan and prepare for all aspects of project engagement, delivery and adoption within the assigned portfolio. They are accountable for the project objectives that drive transformation, customer experience, and other activities as assigned by the Director.

The Project Managers are responsible to define areas including resource allocations, influencing sponsors and managing work prioritization. They play an active role in making decisions involving human resources, technical and financial resources necessary to implement change for high impact environments. They design processes and structures to support CommonSpirit Health enterprise wide change.

The project manager is a contributor of early engagement, project gap analysis and operational change management. Will include innovation project lifecycle delivery, promoting successful relationship management and customer adoption. They are expected to contribute to the continuous improvement of the project management lifecycle methodology. They are assigned to medium or large projects. Will be assigned to multiple projects, with rare exceptions and can be assigned as a contributor project manager on programs.

Responsibilities

• Primary Responsibilities on medium to large scale projects include, but are not limited to:

• Key resource for the project encompassing the development of relationships between IT and the organizations multiple customer constituencies including: business stakeholders, functional business leaders, subject matter experts, vendors, IT staff, and employees across CommonSpirit Health.

• Responsible for the vital efficient operation of the organizations well-managed systems that will ensure the financial success and ability to cope with the pressures of shrinking revenues, and our market strategy to grow and expand into the future.

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining channels of communication between business, IT and other relevant stakeholders.

• Responsible for developing medium scale project plans which identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics, communication plan, resources required and ensuring deliverables of the IT initiatives.

• Responsible for the supervision of the project resources required to deliver each task (i.e. key areas could include: Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Design Engineers, CyberSecurity, Quality, etc.)

• Responsible for managing all aspects of the project from planning, design, development/implementation, testing, training, deployment, customer adoption and operation turnover of the IT initiatives.

• Tracks assigned budget and resources for each project. Prepares cost estimates and cost recommendations. Monitors expenditures.

• Ensure compliance with all policies, financial stewardship by being accountable for the financial integrity around development and maintenance of project budget.

• Proactively prepare reports and/ or documentation providing business details to staff and management identifying business and patient trends, defining metrics, and recommending solutions.

• Remote eligible.

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a Related Field or Equivalent Professional Experience preferred

• 2-3 years of Project Management experience.

• Project Management experience in a Health care environment preferred.

• Understanding of Finance and Accounting principles in relation to project budgets, purchasing and analysis of financial results.

• Negotiation skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• In depth knowledge of Information Systems (software, hardware, network).

• Experience in process improvement; Lean Six Sigma principles and/or business process management preferred.

• Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification preferred

• Scrum/Agile certification preferred

• Possess thorough understanding of Healthcare Business and business processes strongly desired.

• Possess strong understanding of digital technology, clinical information systems, and how clinical information is integrated into the patient, consumer, and provider digital experience.

• Experience in Project Management methodologies and tool sets - waterfall/agile/scrum, planning, issue escalation, problem resolution, conflict and collision management, metrics and reporting, communications, etc. strongly desired.

• Ability to manage business relationships and vendors.

• Decisiveness/Ability to make a quick assessment of the scope of an issue and provide options for its closure.

• Ability to develop strategic business cases for departmental or project specific initiatives.

• Strong knowledge of the architectural system components, business processes and applications to minimize the impact of changes in software, hardware or network.

• Strong interpersonal skills; builds rapport and relates well with all kinds of people at a variety of levels.

• Strong background in delivery of large to medium enterprise business solutions.

• Background in ERP applications preferred. (Lawson, Infor, Workday, Oracle)

Pay Range

$40.75 - $59.09 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.