Senior Project Manager

UW MEDICINE IT SERVICES has an outstanding job opportunity for a SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER 3 position.

WORK SCHEDULE

100% FTE - 40 hours per week

Day Shift

• UW MEDICINE ITS SERVICES CORE HOURS ARE 07:00 - 16:00 (PST), Monday-Friday

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS

Responsible for leading teams to deliver programs or projects that span across one or more business units. This includes managing resources, schedules, financials, and approach throughout the full project life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.

Serves as a coach and mentor to assigned PMs to ensure on-time, on-budget, delivery of active projects within the assigned portfolio and compliance with PMO standards. This position also contributes to further development of these standards.

Assigned to projects which will likely be within the respective portfolio for which the Sr. PM is responsible.

Work closely with user representatives, other ITS teams, operations staff, and other project team members to initiate projects.

Analyzes business processes and data.

Facilitates user requirements.

Plans and directs configuration and functional testing.

Develops and maintains project plans, schedules, and other project management documents.

Plans and directs project implementation work.

Supports the operational departments to improve associated systems.

Communicates responsibilities and expectations to team members.

Manages schedule, scope, and budget.

Identifies and manages project issues, risks, and decisions.

Ensures quality project deliverables and outcomes.

Manages integration and consistency of all components of projects.

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION

UW Medicine IT Services (ITS) is a shared services organization that supports all of UW Medicine. UW Medicine is comprised of Harborview Medical Center (HMC), UW Medical Center-Montlake Campus (UWMC-Montlake), UW Medical Center-Northwest Campus (UWMC-NW), Valley Medical Center (VMC), UW Medicine Primary Care (UWMPC), UW Physicians (UWP), UW School of Medicine (SOM), and Airlift Northwest (ALNW). ITS is responsible for the ongoing support and maintenance of the infrastructure and applications which support all these institutions, along with the implementation of new services and applications that are used to support and further the UW Medicine mission.

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

You manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.

You handle full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously.

You manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.

You report on project success criteria results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities.

You prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project.

You procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes.

You manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings.

You develop with stakeholders KPIs for projects, programs, and/or portfolios.

You understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs in order to help team(s) achieve organizational goals/objectives.

You provide onsite leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in a healthcare oriented profession, a technology field, a business-related field, or other discipline that demonstrates analytical or communications abilities, or related field or equivalent education and/or experience.

5+ years of overall experience to include the below.

5+ years of experience serving in a project leadership role with responsibility for managing progressively more complicated vendor-packaged system deployment and/or process improvement projects.

3+ years of recent experience utilizing MS Project to manage projects.

Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding all teams accountable for performance.

Demonstrated leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organizations/business units.

Demonstrated experience effectively working with multiple, diverse stakeholders in a complex project environment within a cross-functional matrix environment.

Demonstrated experience managing project work and/or work of others within an established standard project lifecycle framework.

Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated communication skills; both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff, all levels of management.

Strong experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule and within budget close.

Strong experience in SDLC, Waterfall, and Agile Project Methodologies.

Experience negotiating vendor contracts.

Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.

Experience maintaining relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives.

Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executives sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers.

Experience researching best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and using continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

This is an Information Technology deadline-driven work environment.

The individual in this position is expected to work normal daytime hours. The work may be performed in either an office environment or by telecommuting with manager approval, during normal business hours; however, significant off-hours and weekends may be needed to resolve problems and respond to emergencies. This individual is expected to be available for emergencies (business continuity/disaster recovery efforts) on a 24x7 basis as needed.

Must coordinate projects without direct supervisory authority.

Must work within the constraints of multiple technical environments.

The individual in this position must learn many organizational structures and cultures and continually foster collaboration.

Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.

ABOUT UW MEDICINE - A HIGHER DEGREE OF HEALTHCARE

UW Medicine is Washington's only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine's mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow's physicians, scientists, and other health professionals.

All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student, and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center

• Montlake, UW Medical Center

• Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.

Become part of our team. Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community. #monster