Project Management Office; PMO) Manager

• Pay or shift range: $125,000 USD to $150,000 USD
  The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

Humboldt Park Healthis a safety-net hospital located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago. We are dedicated to delivering high-quality, affordable, and compassionate healthcare services to the communities we serve.

As a primary community healthcare provider, Humboldt Park Health focuses on treating and curing disease while promoting wellness through health education, prevention, and early intervention. Our 200-bed hospital provides inpatient acute care, emergency services, diagnostic services, and primary care. We also support the community through a full-service professional building, neighborhood clinics, and two mobile health units.

We are currently seeking a PMO Manager
to join our team!

Position Summary:

The Project Management Office (PMO) Manager is a quality professional responsible for establishing, operationalizing, and managing Humboldt Park Health's enterprise-wide Performance Improvement Management Office within the Quality Department. This position serves as the central project management and performance improvement resource for hospital-wide initiatives that require structured project governance, cross-functional coordination, Lean Six Sigma methodology, performance measurement, accountability, risk management, and sustained change.

The PMO Manager will drive the operational change that converts the organization’s regulatory, safety, clinical, compliance, and analytics priorities into disciplined, measurable, enterprise-wide improvement work. The PMO Manager will serve as the central governance mechanism for enterprise performance improvement while preserving the subject-matter authority of Regulatory, Quality, Patient Safety, Compliance, Infection Prevention, Risk, Nursing, Analytics, and clinical leaders.

The PMO Manager will lead the organization's standardized approach for identifying, prioritizing, chartering, executing, monitoring, escalating, closing, and sustaining enterprise-wide performance improvement initiatives. The position serves as the primary project management lead for the Quality Department, partnering closely with the Vice President of Quality, departmental leadership, medical staff, nursing, clinical departments, operational departments, and other organizational leaders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides the methodology, structure, discipline, project governance, facilitation, measurement, and accountability infrastructure necessary to ensure that enterprise initiatives produce measurable and sustainable results.
• Create a standardized PMO governance model that can be used consistently across clinical, operational, financial, regulatory, compliance, patient safety, and administrative initiatives.
• Serve as the organization's central mechanism for enterprise performance improvement project management, lean six sigma deployment, quality improvement methodology, cross-functional project coordination, project prioritization and portfolio management.
• Create and administer a formal process through which departments request PMO support.
• Develop standardized processes for: project intake, project screening, project prioritization, project approval, project chartering, project planning, project team formation, stakeholder identification, baseline measurement, risk assessment, lean six sigma methodology selection, project execution, milestone tracking, escalation, executive, reporting, project closure, and sustainability monitoring.
• Ensure that projects are appropriately mapped to applicable…