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The Senior Project Manager is accountable for one or more moderate to large, diverse and complex projects in the area of information technology. Manages all aspects of projects with direct accountability to the Executive Sponsor. Ensures projects are planned and executed in a manner that supports the Information Systems department and Providence Health Plan objectives. MAJOR CHALLENGES - Adapt and respond effectively to a constantly changing business and technology environment. - Manage multiple conflicting priorities. - Coordinating efforts across initiatives, committees and work teams, using lessons learned to effect broad and lasting changes. - Oversee/manage multiple initiatives while maintaining the ability to handle urgent needs as they arise. - Ability to successfully manage risk and issues in a collaborative, highly matrixed environment. In this position you will: Strategic:- Develop projects within a program in alignment with the organization’s strategic plans and objectives.
- Build support to influence decisions in order to ensure work toward common objectives.
- Proactively inform and influence others in order to maintain the balance required between business needs; project partner strategy and standards; and financial requirements and budgets.
- Facilitate strategic planning with internal customers for deployment of information technologies and/or major services and products.
- Manage client expectations from initial project identification and through the project lifecycle.
- Develop and gain sponsor approval and signoff of the project charter / scope and / or work breakdown schedule.
- Manage portfolio programs with increased complexity, strategic priority and / or visibility, system and/or regional priority.
- Develops and leads the project team to the delivery of successful project outcomes.
- Engage and organize the assignment of activities of multi-functional teams, as well as the project estimates, task dependencies and schedule.
- Builds and manages multiple, multi-functional collaborative project and / or work teams.
- Coordinates the activities of multi-functional teams, as well as the project budget, task dependencies and schedule.
- Scope, risk and issue management, including documenting, communicating and facilitating resolutions or mitigation plans.
- Develops, initiates and manages a communication plan, including regular project status reports.
- Delivers appropriate integration, training and implementation plans and activities.
- Manages stakeholders and multiple project teams in the context of a single project.
- Acts as a coach and mentor.
- Proven hands-on project management skills.
- Strong facilitation, planning and management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience managing projects with multiple project teams, product development life-cycle, or quality life-cycle.
- Experience with PM methodologies and software.
- Experience making formal and informal presentations to senior and executive management and key stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience developing and modifying process standards and objectives to a project as appropriate.
- Strong financial management skills in budgeting, forecasting, and cost control.
- Must have strong organizational skills and multi-tasking capabilities and excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Highly self-motivated and self-directed. Keen attention to detail. Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
- Exceptional customer service orientation.
- 6 years of experience with project or program management.
- 3 years working in the field of Information Services
- 3 years of Working in the healthcare industry
- Coursework/Training: Project management.
- Certifications in process optimization such as Six Sigma, Lean, CQIA or other nationally recognized program
- Project Management (PMI) Certification
Why Join Providence?
Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.
Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
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