SR DHT PROJECT MANAGER

Premier Health; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Dayton, Ohio is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead high complexity projects within their Digital Health & Technology division. The successful candidate will manage project execution while ensuring adherence to project management methods. Candidates should have a background in IT Project Management with at least 5-7 years of experience. This role offers a full-time schedule from 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of job-related experience in project management.
• Must independently lead projects with limited scope related to complexity.
• Experience in digital health, healthcare, or clinical operations is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Interact with stakeholders to implement solutions effectively.
• Establish team member accountabilities and foster collaboration.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead projects from initiation through execution to closing.

Skills

Project management concepts

Agile methodologies

Waterfall methodologies

Communication skills

Organization skills

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a Technology Discipline

Associate's Degree with 6 years of Project Management

Job description

DEPT: Digital Health & Technology ANALYTICS

Full-Time / 8:00am-5:00pm

The Premier Health Digital Health & Technology (DH&T) division is charged with creating, advocating, and ensuring adherence to Premier Health’s Project Management methods. This structure is in place to provide an intake for project requests, and to provide prioritization, leadership oversight, resource assignment, and project execution management.

The DH&T Project Manager is the senior-level position within the DH&T Project Manager Career Ladder. The Project Manager is responsible for leading projects to completion in accordance with the expressed scope, budget and timeline. Scope for the DH&T Project Manager includes leading projects that are of high complexity, multi-department and multi-division-focused. The Project Manager may manage projects following Agile and/or traditional Waterfall approaches. Projects may come from numerous areas including but not limited to technical operations, infrastructure, applications and operations.

The Project manager will manage multiple to large projects with high complexity simultaneously. The Project Manager will be responsible for establishing and tracking expenditures associated to project budgets if applicable. The project manager will interact and establish constructive relationships with vendors but will not own nor manage vendor relationships or contracts. Managing interactions and building positive relationships with customers is also expected consistent with the scope and complexity of the assigned project work.

The position allows for the continued development of the employee’s information system knowledge, skills, and business process understanding. The position requires frequent direct interaction with any/all applicable customer bases. The ability to effectively provide leadership and accountability within the peer group, and influence and communicate throughout the customer base, DHT and operational leadership, is required.

Knowledge/Skills

• Possesses an advanced understanding of project management concepts and methods Agile and Waterfall.
• Possesses the communication skills necessary to collaborate effectively with users, colleagues, developers, and organizational administration.
• Advanced organization and documentation skills – consistent with the expectations of managing multiple projects of wide-ranging scope and complexity simultaneously.
• Possesses an advanced level of critical thinking.
• Demonstrates the ability to collaborate with and manage the activities of cross-functional work teams without supervision.
• Ability to lead their assigned project portfolio, establishing project team members’ accountability and holding them to these accountabilities.
• Able to adjust to changing project requirements and ambiguity while translating these into measurable timelines and deliverables.
• Ability to interact with stakeholders within all areas of the organization to understand and document technical and operational processes and workflows to establish project requirements.

Essential Duties & Functions:

1. Primarily accountable to interact with project stakeholders to manage the implementation of solutions that are cost-effective, secure, and produce high levels of customer satisfaction. Internal interaction is frequent with all project stakeholders. Internal interaction is frequent with both operational end users of information technology and with all levels of leadership, physicians, and customers.

2. Establish project team member accountabilities and drive results through the execution of these accountabilities, while fostering a collaborative environment that allows for team members to be their best.

3. Anticipate project problems and adjust plans as needed and/or in collaboration with other leaders. Effectively escalate to DH&T leadership when scope, delivery, or budget is at risk.

4. Develop detailed project plans and maintain these throughout the project life cycle.

5. Assist with facilitating/documenting in project provisioning meetings.

6. Lead projects through all stages of the project life cycle, from initiation through execution to closing.

7. Serve as a mentor to other staff, particularly DH&T Project Managers

8. Work as a liaison among stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems. Understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

9. Collaborate with Architects to understand and execute the project design and scope.

10. When required, lead the project as part architect and part manager to identify issues and establishing potential resolutions.

11. Adjust to changing requirements and areas of project ambiguity maintaining the ability to reset project goals and timelines.

12. Maintain/control project scope and adhere to project budget.

Minimum Level of Education Required: No requirement

Additional requirements:

§ Type of degree: A Bachelor’s Degree in a Technology Discipline with 2 years of IT Project Management experience or a related Bachelor’s Degree with 4 years of Project Management experience or an Associate’s Degree with 6 years of Project Management experience or No Degree with 8 years of experience.

§ Area of study or major : In formation Technology, Computer Science, Project Management, other clinical healthcare disciplines (nursing, X-Ray, etc.)

§ Preferred educational qualifications : N/A

§ Position specific testing requirement: N/A

Experience

Minimum Level of Experience Required: 5 - 7 years of job related experience

Prior job title or occupational experience: Information Technology

Prior specific functional responsibilities: Minimum of 5 years of project management. Performs supportive duties related to projects in support of or coordination with a Project Manager Intermediate or Project Manager Senior. Independently leads projects with limited scope related to complexity, budget, number of resources, departments and timeframe. Project management scope could include Digital Health, construction, and/or clinical/operations projects.

Preferred experience: Operations and technical requirements gathering, knowledge of health care systems, technical applications/infrastructure support, clinical, and project management.

Other experience requirements: N/A