Job Description

Community Health Systems is one of the nation's leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 40 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 71 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.

Summary:

Under the general direction of the Information Services Manager, the PM Specialist compiles and distributes project information, status reports, and project budget expenditures. Creates project schedules and scheduling components for all phases of a project. Creates, organizes, and maintains detailed project cost estimates to model a project's final cost. They lead and guide the work of technical staff and serve as a point of contact for the client or customer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

* PM Specialist are change management experts: They make project goals their own and use their skills and expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team. They enjoy the organized adrenaline of new challenges and the responsibility of driving business efforts.

* Responsibility and Accountability for the Project: Responsible for using best practice PMO methodology to create project plans that fit the stakeholders/business partners needs and deliver within budget on agreed upon deliverables. Fully accountable for the results of the project and is the driver that holds the project together. The PM Specialist leads the project with passion and an entrepreneurial spirit as if it is his/her own business.

* Defines Project Roles and Responsibilities: Working closely with the SBO (Shared Business Office), VMO (Vendor Management Office) and PMO team to ensure that the project transition to the PMO meets all standards. The PM Specialist is also accountable for confirming the project scope and objectives to ensure that the project steering committee's expectations are aligned with the project scope. The PM Specialist is responsible in ensuring all roles and responsibilities are clearly defined between all project team members.

* Performs Project Tracking: Prepares, maintains and submits clear & concise activity/progress and management reports. The No 1 reason for tracking a project is to discover potential problems before they occur. The PM Specialist applies a proactive / critical thinking approach to routinely track the project deliverables against their project commitments.

* Maintains Project Management Best Practices: The PM is responsible for defining, teaching and enforcing the use of good project management practices and processes along with an entrepreneurial spirit.

* Oversees staff development and training in assigned areas; may develop and/or present Domain wide training programs on IS project execution issues.

* Complete RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and lessons learned on risk and issues that have been realized. Ability to "tell the story", based on quantifiable validated data and create a go to green plan.

Minimum Qualifications:

Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or other related technology major

Preferred Education: Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or other related technology major

Required Experience: Minimum 7 years experience within implementation of IS healthcare technology

Preferred Experience: Minimum 7 years experience in Project/Program and Portfolio Management to include track project results based on quantified KPIs.

Required License/Registration/Certification: PMP Certification

Computer Skills Required: Google Drive products, MS products including MS Project or similar tool.

Physical Demands:

In order to successfully perform this job, with or without a reasonable accommodation, the following are outlined below:

* The Employee is required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a PC or similar, and should possess visual acuity.

* The Employee may be required to occasionally climb, push, stand, walk, reach, grasp, kneel, stoop, and/or perform repetitive motions.

* The Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and; therefore, job functions are typically performed under conditions such as those found within general office or administrative work.