Leads and provides expert technical leadership to highly visible, sensitive and multi-faceted projects. Responsible for setting strategic direction of projects and developing project plans. Provides high quality and cost effective project management, analytic support services and technical expertise for a broad array of issues. This is the second job in a three level Project Manager Ladder. At the second level, the Project Manager is responsible for leading projects of complex scope where analysis of data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Projects assigned are broad in scope and may involve multiple functional areas and/or span across service areas. Position will exercise judgment within generally defined practices/policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining results.
Essential Functions:
- Leads and provides expert technical leadership to highly visible, sensitive and multi-faceted projects.
- Sets strategic direction of projects.
- Develops project plans which identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics and resources required.
- Designs processes to address identified problems.
- Establishes team membership and negotiates time commitments and resource allocation.
- Provides staff leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, as well as manages work of outside consultants.
- Motivates team members and facilitates team meetings.
- Acts as liaison, problem solver, and facilitator.
- Cultivates and reinforces appropriate group values, norms, and behaviors.
- Provides guidance to team on performance and productivity issues.
- Designs research plans for data gathering and analysis.
- Actively participates or may lead in analyzing data and developing recommendations and action plans.
- Accountable for the development of project documentation for senior executives and other key clients to facilitate sharing of project outcomes and best practices
- Plans and facilitates meetings.
- Makes formal presentations to various senior level audiences.
- Establishes procedures regarding implementation of project outcome.
- Assesses project impact on workforce.
- May include developing training program for different levels of audiences.
- Establishes effective professional business relationships with all levels of management.
- Instructs and educates on all aspects of project.
- May develop and manage a department, including recruiting, coaching, performance evaluation of staff.
Secondary Functions:
- Primary project work will be in the areas of Environmental Health & Safety and Occupational Safety & Health work as related to the Medical Center Rebuild.
- Emphasis on complex Project Management skills for coordination of regulatory and accredidation services for opening of new medical office building and hospital.
- Communications planning (internal/external) supporting a successful transition to a new facility.
- Partner with Accredidation Regulations and Licensing, Patient Care Services, Support Services.
- Position will be assigned other Project Management work as required by the project.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Five (5) plus years of progressive experience in specified technical area.
- Project management experience in health care preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, health care administration, operations research, public health administration or other related field or equivalent work experience.
- Master's degree or clinical licenses (RN, MD, etc.) preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to determine key business issues and develop appropriate action plans from multi-disciplinary perspectives.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses.
- Effective leadership, project management and consulting skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Regulatory, Environmental Health & Safety and Occupational Safety & Health strongly.
- Experience writing Policies and Procedures.
- Communications or Public Affairs experience.
- Strong organizational skills.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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