Project Manager Information Technology Lead - IM Project Management Office

Direct Jobs; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Texas is looking for a Project Manager IT Lead to oversee project management processes. This role requires leading multiple enterprise-level projects, ensuring adherence to PMO methodologies, managing budgets, and facilitating training and documentation for users. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in project management within large healthcare systems. PMI Certification is strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience working on IT project teams.
• Experience in clinical project implementation and management.
• Prior experience managing projects of small to medium scope.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage projects end to end following PMO methodology.
• Create and manage project scope, resources, and budget.
• Identify dependencies and risks, creating mitigation plans.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Budget Management

Risk Management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field or relevant experience

Tools

Epic

Meditech

Job description

Summary

Under the direction of the Director of PPMO, the Project Manager Information Technology Lead works with Project management staff to identify priorities and resource availabilities for assignment. The Project Manager IT Lead ensures all projects follow PMO processes and methodologies set forth. The Project Manager IT Lead is responsible for ensuring that technical and data flow diagrams for all projects are developed and signed off by stakeholders and vendors as applicable. Supports Information System related business planning requirements including, but not limited to, budgeting, scheduling, and workload planning. Maintains project issues and reports to Information System management and local steering teams on progress of critical path items. Reports project status and accomplishments. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. The Project Manager IT Lead will gather and evaluate information concerning a user’s conceptual needs, estimate and schedule project activities and associated costs, coordinate and participate in analysis/design/coding activities, ensure that system changes are fully tested, ensure users are fully trained and prepared, ensure guidelines and procedure requirements are met, and coordinate implementation of the changes.

Responsibilities

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Follow PMO methodology and processes to lead and manage projects end to end.
• Responsible for creating and managing project scope, resources, and budget.
• Responsible for analyzing and understanding business requirements, vendor statements of work and other forms of requirement documents to clearly outline project artifacts.
• Expected to manage multiple projects by maintaining a high level of quality in terms of deliverables, implementation, and customer experience.
• Responsible for managing multiple enterprise level projects. In addition, the PM Lead is expected to mentor and provide oversight to the projects managed by the team.
• Accountable for ensuring project artifacts created and utilized by all projects.
• Assist Managers in creating and refining project artifacts and training materials.
• Project Manager is responsible for bringing in the right leadership, resources, vendors, and all stakeholders together to organize and facilitate project kick-off.
• Responsible for creating Charter, Project Plan, Budget Tracker, RACI, Weekly Status Reports, Project Steering Committee, and presentation materials, GLRA and Change Management processes.
• Responsible for establishing critical path milestones and reporting the status to the executive leadership on a regular basis.
• Must develop a concrete project plan before moving a project to implementation. Lead and track the project progress by the project plan. Not acceptable to manage projects without a project plan.
• Responsible for identifying dependencies and risks ahead of time, working with respective stakeholders to create mitigation plans and actively monitor and report progress.
• Adhere to PMO department policies, procedures, and documentation requirements. All projects and documentation are subject to internal/external audits; meticulous documentation is required.
• Responsible for facilitating planning and design sessions to define in-scope and out-of-scope items and project designs.
• Training: Works with IS Training and Vendors on the following:
• Planning for and ensuring preparation and maintenance of documentation pertaining to programming, systems operation and user documentation.
• Translating business specifications into user documentation.
• Planning, writing, and overseeing user support documentation efforts, including online help screens.
• Insuring training of users in the operation and functionality of computer applications and related business processes.
• Validating competency of users in utilization of information systems prior to system go-live or major changes.
• Ensuring super-users or other support personnel are in place at go-live, and succession planning is documented to ensure ongoing competency support in facilities and departments affected by new systems being implemented or upgraded.

Job Requirements

Education/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or relevant experience in an Information Systems environment required.

Experience

• Working experience in large multi-hospital system is preferred.
• Clinical project implementation and management is required; Epic or Meditech specific experience is preferred.
• Previous experience managing projects of small to medium scope and complexity.
• Must have six to eight years of previous experience working on information technology project teams and in obtaining customer requirements and other analysis activities.
• Clinical education background is preferred.

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

• PMI Certification strongly preferred.

Work Schedule

8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday

Work Type

Full Time