Quality Project Manager

UChicago Medicine; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

UChicago Medicine is looking for a Quality Project Manager to join their team in Hyde Park. This role involves overseeing projects through planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring they meet established budgets and schedules.

Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 1–2 years of experience in healthcare and project management. This full-time position provides opportunities for collaboration and offers remote flexibility with some travel required.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years’ experience in healthcare, performance improvement, or project management.
• Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments.
• Experience facilitating groups with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the planning, design, implementation, and completion of projects.
• Executes project plans and provides daily support.
• Collaborates with data teams to fulfill data and analytics needs.

Skills

Project Management

Performance Improvement Techniques

Facilitation Skills

Clinical Terminology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in healthcare, engineering, or performance improvement

Master’s degree in public health or related field

Job description

Join one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers, UChicago Medicine, as a Quality Project Manager. This position is based on-site at Hyde Park, with remote flexibility. Some travel to alternate site locations around Chicagoland will be required. In this role, the Quality Project Manager is responsible for facilitating successful project delivery including the planning, scheduling, execution, and closing of all assigned projects within established budget and schedule. Utilizing Project Management (PM) methodologies, while managing all project team members (organizational resources and engaged third‑party vendors/consultants) to deliver solutions according to project scope and goals.

Essential Job Functions

• Oversees the planning, design, implementation, and completion of small to medium projects with support from supervisor.
• Executes project plan and provides daily support for moving the project forward on large strategic initiatives with support from supervisor.
• Uses PDSA framework to guide projects.
• In partnership with team members, facilitates the use of standard QI and PI tools.
• Identifies areas where there is a need to distinguish between quality improvement and research, and the potential intersections.
• Collaborate with clinical leads and team members to develop meeting agendas.
• Accurately capture and document key discussions, decisions, and action items.
• Lead and facilitate project meetings, employing basic facilitation skills (e.g., encouraging participation, using process checks).
• Collaborate with data teams within UCM to ensure data and analytics needs of assigned projects are satisfied and garner the most effective clinical monitors and insight to drive improvement, while allowing for efficient analytics processes.
• Identify data collection and analysis needs as appropriate when relevant data does not exist electronically.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health care, engineering, or performance improvement field or equivalent.
• Possess a minimum of 1–2 years’ experience in healthcare, performance improvement, project management, or equivalent.
• Experience facilitating groups with many different stakeholders.
• Knowledge of performance improvement techniques and methodologies.
• Must be able to work autonomously in a sometimes ambiguous and changing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public health, health care administration, business administration, nursing, or another health care‑related field preferred.
• Minimum of 1–2 years’ Performance Improvement experience in a hospital or large health system preferred.
• Experience with clinical terminology preferred.

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Full Time
• Shift: Days
• Job Location: Hyde Park
• Unit/Department: Project Management Office
• CBA Code: Non‑Union

Compensation & Benefits Overview

UChicago Medicine is committed to transparency in compensation and benefits. The pay range provided reflects the anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. The pay range is based on a full‑time equivalent (1.0 FTE) and is reflective of current market data, reviewed on an annual basis. Compensation offered at the time of hire will vary based on candidate qualifications and experience and organizational considerations, such as internal equity. Pay ranges for employees subject to Collective Bargaining Agreements are negotiated by the medical center and their respective union. Review the full complement of benefit options for eligible roles at Benefits – UChicago Medicine.

EEO Statement

UChicago Medicine is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

As a condition of employment, all employees are required to complete a pre‑employment physical, background check, drug screening, and comply with the flu vaccination requirements prior to hire. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered for flu vaccination consistent with applicable law.