What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager – Healthcare PMO position at uic?
About UI Health
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health)
provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the people of Illinois
and beyond. A part of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), UI Health
comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a 495-bed tertiary care hospital,
22 outpatient clinics, and 13 Mile Square Health Center facilities, which are
Federally Qualified Health Centers. It also includes the seven UIC health
science colleges: the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of
Dentistry; the School of Public Health; the Jane Addams College of Social Work;
and the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, including regional
campuses in Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford, Springfield, and Urbana. UI Health
is dedicated to the pursuit of health equity.
Position Summary
The Senior Project Manager, Healthcare PMO provides project management and direction for medium, enterprise, complex projects, and/or large-scale implementations for UI Health activities which benefit all or significant parts of the Hospital & Clinics. Manage all aspects of project life cycle to facilitate the successful and timely delivery of key multi-faceted business processes, such as site transitions, centralization, or process improvements that involve multiple located business partners. Influence the work of others outside of direct authority to ensure project milestones and deliverables are met.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Identify, analyze and recommend business systems/process solutions and future opportunities to Information Services (IS) management that have broad business impact.
- Manage the definition, design, and implementation of medium, enterprise, and/or complex projects for improved healthcare business services and products.
- Develop, plan and track detailed project plans, including schedules, cost estimates, resource needs, funding requirements, communication plans, RIDAC, and implementation strategies.
- Identify project stakeholders, Steering Committee and other participants; manage two-way communications with participants and engage stakeholders in key decisions
- Ability to identify and build strong project teams and effective relationships, and provide leadership to a variety of stakeholder groups, without having direct authority
- Assemble cross-functional integration teams and assign individual responsibilities. Provide project leadership, work direction, and feedback to ensure project milestones and deliverables are met. Coach and train project team members on project management processes and best practices. Mentor other project managers. Oversee work output of project team members; collaborate with the resource managers directly managing team members as needed.
- Communicate and report status to executives, business partners and other stakeholders. Deliver formal presentations to senior management on recommendations and project status updates.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including C-suite executives
- Capability to be an independent and critical thinker who can translate abstract concepts into actions that move the business forward
- Excellent troubleshooting and escalation skills, with the ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
- Ability to adapt to frequent changes in duties and volume of work
- Train, mentor, and oversee work of newly hired IS PMO Project Managers, IS non-PMO Project Managers, contracted project managers, and ensure their awareness to adhere to the IS PM methodology, standards, and expectations
- Work closely with the PMO Director to understand the PAPP (Project Appraisal and Prioritization Process) process. Lead the discovery efforts for IS PAPP Demands. Develop metrics for reporting the business case. Assist with defining the cost benefit analysis for a proforma related to health care/business processes.
- Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
- Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
