Sr. Project Manager - Project Implementation Team, Ambulatory Operational Excellence

UCLA Outpatient Clinics; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 70,900 - 145,200; Full time

Job summary

UCLA Outpatient Clinics is looking for a Senior Project Manager to drive enterprise ambulatory transformation and manage complex projects that support clinical and administrative services. The role involves coordinating operational initiatives, monitoring progress, and ensuring effective collaboration between departments. Candidates should possess strong project management skills and experience in managing large-scale initiatives. The salary range is $70,900 - $145,200 annually, with a responsibility to travel between Health System locations.

Qualifications

• Experience managing large-scale projects is essential.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to lead and mentor project teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement and coordinate enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Manage timelines and ensure goals are met.
• Facilitate collaboration between departments.

Skills

Project management skills

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Critical thinking

Job description

Description

At UCLA Health, our vision is to heal humankind, one patient at a time, by improving health, alleviating suffering and delivering acts of kindness. With over 280+ practices across Southern California, UCLA Health Clinics are uniquely positioned to provide care for patients through a comprehensive array of health services delivered where our patients live and work. The Ambulatory Operational Excellence Team supports UCLA Health Clinics’ mission to deliver leading-edge patient care by providing reporting and analytics, promoting operational excellence, and helping to ensure that patients receive timely and efficient care.

This role is a key driver of enterprise ambulatory transformation, supporting large-scale operational initiatives, clinic expansion, and system-wide standardization efforts across UCLA Health. As the Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for implementation, coordination, monitoring, and maintaining a variety of enterprise-wide efforts and multi-faceted projects to support clinical and administrative services, community practice expansion initiatives, and process improvement initiatives. You will manage these complex projects by using critical project management thinking skills, including, but not limited to, establishing scope of work and project plans, facilitating collaboration and communication between functional groups across departments, managing timelines for project tasks, reporting, ensuring goals are tracked and met, and effectively coordinating activities with the project team. In addition, you will assist in streamlining existing projects and management processes, procedures and guidelines by incorporating applicable best practices. In this role, you will demonstrate managerial and leadership skills to support administrative and professional staff in project activities. You will also organize project specific and advisory group meetings and ensure that minutes and action items are generated and distributed.

This role also requires travel between all Health System practice locations as assigned.

Salary Range: $70,900 - $145,200 Annual