Process Improvement Project Manager

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is seeking a Performance Improvement Lead to facilitate multidisciplinary projects and drive rigorous evaluation of improvement initiatives. You will manage a portfolio of quality improvement efforts and design data collection tools, reports, and analyses to inform decision making.

The role requires strong interpersonal and leadership skills to mentor teams, lead committees, and partner with stakeholders across the organization to align goals and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a related field.
• 3–5 years healthcare quality improvement experience.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Office; data reporting experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance improvement projects and evaluate activities.
• Design data collection tools and reports; query data from repositories.
• Provide guidance, mentoring and team facilitation across units.
• Coordinate with sponsors, team leaders and committees.

Skills

Project management

Data analysis

Microsoft Office

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (Healthcare/Business)

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. This position is responsible for facilitating the work of performance improvement activities and the rigorous evaluation of those activities. The position will manage a portfolio of a variety of projects supporting division and department quality and quality improvement initiatives. They will also draw upon technical skills to determine data needs, design collection tools and reports, query data from data repositories, validate, analyze, and summarize trends. Incumbent must have exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills, ability to facilitate interdisciplinary teams, and provide expert performance improvement guidance and mentoring to individuals and teams. The incumbent may manage the life cycle of grants and contract opportunities supporting this work.

Job Description:

Hybrid position based in Boston with a Monday-Friday schedule, requiring two onsite days (including one day starting at 6:30 AM) and three remote days per week.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develops project scope, goals and objectives, success criteria, assumptions, and team membership through rigorous analytical processes in collaboration with project sponsor(s).
• Advocates interdisciplinary participation in all improvement efforts.
• Negotiate and define scope of services provided to teams.
• Ensures effective project planning.
• Design communication strategies for project progress.
• Provides project guidance to operational project leaders and sponsors.
• Analyzes projects by vice presidents or department leaders to assess organizational potential and strategic alignment.
• Participates in organizational Committees and Councils as assigned (member or support staff).
• Collaborates with others to develop and execute redesign and performance improvement models.
• Identify strengths and weakness of teams and learning opportunities for individuals and teams.
• Develops approaches to quantify and report on key performance measures in all improvement work.
• Provides training in project management and performance improvement, Mentors team leaders and teams.
• Partners with sponsors and team leaders to strategize team project plans.
• Ensures equal participation by team members, providing feedback to all levels of the team.
• Facilitates alignment of goals across the organization.
• Actively seek information from all customers.
• Identifies sources of data for teams, including internal and external benchmarking information.
• Facilitates the documentation of process flows (current/future state).
• Designs data collection methods and data analyses to support team efforts.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
• business, healthcare management or related field preferred; Master's degree in Business or Healthcare Management preferred
• 3-5 years related work experience in a healthcare setting required
• Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications; May produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of QI/PS experience in a healthcare setting.
• Excellent skills in client management team building, and motivating large groups.

Competencies:

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
• Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
• Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Physical Nature of the Job:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally in carrying, lifting, pushing, pulling objects. Sitting most of the time, with walking and standing required only occasionally.

Pay Range:

$72,987.00 USD - $108,992.00 USD The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment. More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled At Beth Israel Lahey Health, we are driving the change in health care that Massachusetts wants and needs. Our culture promotes continuous learning, growth, innovation and a sense of belonging. We make it a priority to offer comprehensive compensation and benefits and help you achieve a healthy and balanced life. While you're busy caring for and supporting our patients, we take care of you.