IT Project Manager

Job Description

Join one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic medical centers,
UChicago Medicine
, as an
IT Project Manage
r. This position will be primarily a work-from-home opportunity with the requirement to come onsite to our site locations around Chicagoland as needed. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area.

The IT Project Manager manages low to medium sized projects with low to moderate levels of complexity and risk and drives project to deliver on time, on budget, within scope and with a high degree of quality. The IT Project Manager Interacts daily with project team members, suppliers and front line and middle management as project stakeholders and understands and leverages project management processes,toolsand techniques to drive successful project completion.

Also, possesses an understanding of clinical and business operations for multiple departments and/or service lines and consistently demonstrates a proactive, heightened sense of urgency to drive projects to successful outcomes and value realization. This position manages all project risks, action items, status reporting, scope and schedule, financial and budget establishment and reporting, meeting facilitation, vendor engagement, change management, and project resources.

Also,understands the overall role of project and portfolio governance.

• Effectively and proactively participates and contributes to the IT Discovery phase of projects

• Plans, creates, and manages all components of the initiation phase including but not limited to project kickoff, stakeholder identification and analysis, risk assessment, schedule creation, budget creation, and resource identification

• Effectively initiates and plans projects

• Effectively defines project phases and milestones

• Develops detailed project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Staffs the project team with assigned resources

• Ensures that vendor and partner sourcing are well planned and executed

• Develops project budgets

• Understands and updates the project business case

• Understands the vendor contracting processes and participates in the negotiation of contracts for goods and services

• Manages the project team to complete all tasks in the Work Breakdown Structure

• Consistently demonstrates keen fiscal stewardship

• Proactively drives for results, value and outcomes

• Demonstrates a consistent heightened sense of urgency and energizes project team through example

• Leads effective project governance

• Effectively manages all project resources, including partners, suppliers and vendors

• Is a “hands on” project manager, and present on site for project cutovers to production

• Consistently builds valued relationships, enabling on-going and effective partnerships to achieve project objectives

• Manages project work to design, build, and test the solution or system

• Leads by example and effectively leverages virtual meeting tools, by actively participating in all meetings, including turning camera on during project team meetings

• Identifies the right level and intensity of organizational and people change management required for successful change adoption and engages the IT Office of Change Management as needed to execute all required OCM tasks

• Manages all components and deliverables of project execution including solution design, implementation, test planning and execution, training planning and execution, cutover and go-live

• Is onsite and provide hands‑on, proactive project management communication for all business administration, clinical and facility project go‑lives

• Diligently manages and controls project scope

• Applies the project management “triple constraint” when appropriate

• Manages all aspects of supplier contract and work

• Lead project governance formation and execution

• Clearly communicates project updates, issues, risks, mitigation plans (including “who/what/when”), decisions, milestone completion and overall project health by leveraging a single slide project dashboard

• Proactively communicates in a timely and effective manner with all project stakeholders

• Facilitates meetings to successful outcomes and understands how to gather information and conduct analysis to gain a full understanding of…