IT Project Manager

Job Description

HYBRID POSITION - ONSITE A COUPLE DAYS A WEEK. Must reside in Columbus, Ohio or surrounding area. Contract runs 9/23/2024 - 6/26/2025.

Scope of IT Project Manager Position

Responsible for leading the initiation, planning, execution and closure phases of the project life cycle for healthcare IT projects involving multiple technologies, multiple systems, business unit functions and stakeholders. Projects range in size from medium to large complex efforts in support of strategic business goals and objectives for the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC). Applies project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project and program activities in order to meet IT related delivery requirements against a baseline of cost, schedule, and scope.

IT Project Manager Position Summary

As a member of the OSUWMC IT Portfolio Management Office, the Project Manager is a leader of healthcare IT projects covering clinical patient care, research, education and shared services (e.g. Finance, Human Resources, Marketing and IT components of Facility new construction and office moves and renovations). The Project Manager leads these projects through initiation, planning, execution and closure phases as they move from design, to build, to installation, go‑live, training and ultimately into the customer’s operational state.

Project initiatives at the OSU Wexner Medical Center involve multiple technologies, integrated systems, business unit functions and customers. The Project Manager performs the essential functions required to ensure consistent, quality, successful delivery of assigned projects, while managing competing demands of scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and stakeholder expectations. The Project Manager will have a solid core skill set as well as the ability to interact with all levels of staff, executives and possibly even patients.

The Project Manager will need to have the ability to balance and coordinate numerous priorities and demonstrate qualities of trust, teamwork and transparency while ensuring that every project is managed to maximize customer satisfaction.

Scope Development (15%)

• Formulates/defines project scope objectives in a collaborative manner with medical center business customers, IT technical staff and the PMO through independent research and fact-finding in order to understand the needs of the project and estimate the effort in terms of time and money.
• Assess hardware, software, and licensing needs, and directs customers on developing fiscal budgets for project spending; discusses ROI where appropriate to understand and capture stated benefits.
• Ensures formal acceptance of the project scope; ensures that the scope and stated goals include all the required work to complete the project.

Requirements Elicitation (15%)

• Works closely with the user community in validating that the technology solution discovered in scoping will meet their needs.
• Elicits formal requirements using interviews, requirements workshops, site visits, surveys, business process descriptions, use case scenarios, as well as business, task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstracts up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyze needs and functional requirements and delivers the following artifacts as needed: functional requirements, business requirements document, use cases, GUI, screen, and interface designs.
• Utilizes experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
• Drives and challenges business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.

Project Life Cycle Management (30%)

• Manages the initiation, planning, execution, controlling and closure processes of the project life cycle.
• Prepares project charters to formally initiate the project and secures sign‑off by the…