Health Systems Project Manager — Remote

Medical Centers Only - 4 Days Remote per Week

Seattle, WA

Full time

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Job Description

UW Medicine’s Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) has an outstanding opportunity for a Health System Project Manager

WORK SCHEDULE

100% FTE

Days

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS

The Health System Project Manager (HSPM) serves as a critical resource supporting, managing, and driving high-visibility strategic and operational projects and initiatives across UW Medicine’s Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management Office (EPMO). This position supports senior leadership in executing business and operational initiatives that may span multiple departments, entities, or lines of business.

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide project management for the development and implementation of key initiatives and enterprise-critical projects across strategic, operational, financial, or School of Medicine portfolios

• Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business or service lines.
  
  - Interact closely with leaders and work directly with stakeholders across the system to drive successful completion of tactical and strategic initiatives

• Interact closely with leaders and work directly with stakeholders across the system to drive successful completion of tactical and strategic initiatives

• Adapt project management approach to the specific project type assigned

• Monitor and manage key deliverables of initiatives to ensure consistency with EPMO standards and approaches

• Build and utilize common EPMO project management tools and standard approaches while managing multiple stakeholder groups

• Report on project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating clearly to project stakeholders and leadership

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in the areas of information systems, business administration, health care administration or related field

• 5–7 years of demonstrated success/results in project management, including having overseen and managed multiple projects

• Demonstrated ability to adapt project management approach across different project types (operational, strategic, financial/regulatory, School of Medicine), applying the right approach under the direction of a Senior PM or the Senior Director

• Demonstrated ability to influence leaders, employees, and teams to work toward deploying a different future state

• Strong executive presence, including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort presenting to large and small audiences

• Proven experience motivating high-performing individuals; creates an inclusive and collaborative team environment

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently; demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities

• Ability to prioritize, plan, and organize work deliverables; strong written and verbal communication in all settings

• Builds mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among team members

• Proficiency with Smartsheet, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint, with experience presenting to stakeholders

• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous, matrixed, multi-entity health system environment and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve a common business objective.
  
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• Comfort working within a matrixed team structure, including being directed by a Senior PM on complex, multi-PM initiatives without a change in reporting line

• Requires minimal supervision; models effective leadership skills; communicates effectively with project team members and stakeholders

• An equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute for stated requirements

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