Sr. IT Project Manager

Ergonomic Group, Inc.; Danbury (CT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health seeks a Senior IT&S Project Manager to direct and coordinate large IT integration projects within the IT Facilities Mergers & Acquisitions team. Some travel is required as healthcare entities are onboarded into the Northwell Enterprise infrastructure.

The role requires 5–7 years of IT project management experience, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and strong leadership across clinical, financial, and quality teams. PMP certification is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent.
• 5-7 years of project management for IT projects, required.
• Experience in assigned technical area, required.
• PMP Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directs, plans and coordinates multiple IT projects to meet goals and timelines.
• Establishes timelines and ensures project deadlines are met.
• Manages project delivery teams and coordinates with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Assists in developing and maintaining project policies and procedures.
• Provides SME support for clinical and business information systems.

Skills

Project management

IT knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PMP Certification (preferred)

Job description

Senior IT&S Project Manager Job Description

Required

This position is part of the IT Facilities Mergers & Acquisitions team. Project work is related to strategic onboarding and integrating various healthcare-related entities of different sizes and complexity into the Northwell Enterprise infrastructure. Some travel is required.

Job Description

Directs, plans and coordinates project activities to ensure goals and objectives of multiple and large projects are accomplished within prescribed time-frames and funding parameters. Manages all aspects of assigned projects including managing activities of various teams. Establishes timelines and ensures project deadlines are met. Maintains integrity and cost containment of projects.

Job Responsibility

• Plans, manages, and coordinates multiple projects and ensures project initiatives and timelines are met.
• Develops project initiation process by defining project scope, determining action items, assigning ownership, creating project timetables, and tracking execution and workflow; prepares, presents, and distributes project status reports.
• Evaluates, plans, and monitors project implementation for clinical systems; manages project and project delivery teams, ensures deadlines are met, escalates issues for appropriate, timely resolution, and adheres to standardized project management methodologies.
• Develops interdisciplinary project teams in coordination with clinical user community to ensure deployment of systems; serves as liaison to project sponsors, project teams, and stakeholders.
• Works with internal and external groups to optimize success of project deployment; communicates with user departments and project teams on project activities; confers with project staff and vendors to provide support and resolve problems.
• Collaborates with clinical, financial and quality teams to define and develop metric goals; partners with management to develop tools and metrics to evaluate performance of target initiatives.
• Assists with planning monitoring criteria and methodology; ensures availability of performance measurement data for review and analysis.
• Evaluates and drives risk management process improvements, efficiencies and workflow enhancements.
• Partners with management, identifies end user education, training program and services; assists in the development and maintains department policies and procedures.
• Provides subject matter expert support in the development of clinical and business information systems and integration to improve the timely completion of projects. Operates under limited guidance and work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 5-7 years of project management for Information Technology projects, required.
• Experience in assigned technical area, required.
• PMP Certification, preferred.