Position Title:
Project Manager
Location:
Remote
Pay Rate:
$75-$84/hr (+benefits)
Assignment Length:
3-month W2 Contract
Schedule:
Mon-Fri
Industry:
Healthcare
Position Overview/Project Details
The Project Manager is responsible for managing for moderate to large-scale, strategic, IT initiatives at the program/project level. This individual will create and implement project charters, schedules, budgets, and objectives for projects of strategic importance and of moderate to high complexity. S/He will be responsible for holding project teams accountable to specific deliverables and reporting progress and results regularly to leadership. The project manager prepares materials and/or facilitates program/project steering group meetings and ensures the steering group is prepared to make informed decisions about a program or project.
- Leads and manages IT projects and programs including scope/definition, identification of appropriate resources, organization of project team members, ensuring communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives, managing vendor project relationships, measurement, and results analysis.
- Track, analyze and trend project results to provide effective solutions to issues and problems. Performs ongoing review of project status; identifies project risks. Develop, recommend, and implement risk mitigation solutions as approved and as appropriate.
- Communicate project status to all stakeholders including project team, steering committee, and senior IT and business management. Compile and report defined project metrics.
- Manage issues, mitigate risks, and enforce the change management process for all assigned projects. Escalate issues when appropriate. Monitors dependent projects and processes to manage and reduce project management risks. Establishes a Plan B for high impact/high probability risks.
- Obtains resources for the project working with the resource managers and vendors. Monitors and/or manages the project financial budget and leverages opportunities to bring fiscal efficiencies where possible.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
- Experience providing management in most aspects of project management/multi-domain program coordination in a Healthcare Information Technology environment.
- Must have 3-5 years of program/project management
- Four-year university degree or college diploma in the field of computer science, information systems, business, engineering or extensive related experience is required.
- PMP, CSM/ACP, PMgP or equivalent certification a plus
Any other information you'd like suppliers to know:
Given 3-month contract duration - other skills and experiences sought in potential candidates to enable he/she/them to hit the ground running:
- Ability to function in a self-directed manner, organize work tasks and information efficiently, monitor quality/effectiveness, collaborate within and across teams, and execute timely and accurate follow-through.
- Go-getter attitude; resourceful.
- Demonstrated ability to attend to multiple, sometimes competing demands without distraction (e.g., working on multiple projects, communicating through multiple media, monitoring call/chat cue, and executing follow-up activities, assisting team members)
- Competency in active listening and relationship building, and ability to convey project value and business case.
- Strong interpersonal skills, communication skills, and rapport building
- Well versed and experienced in multiple project management methodologies and techniques.
- Very skilled and experienced in using Microsoft project and collaboration tools: Project, Project for the Web, Project Planner; Teams and SharePoint; Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience/knowledge of Service Now SPM is a plus.
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