Position: Project Manager
Client: Healthcare Client
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Duration: 10 month contract
Overview:
- As a member of the IT Portfolio Management Office, the Project Manager is a leader of healthcare IT projects covering clinical patient care, research, education and shared services (e.g. Finance, Human Resources, Marketing and IT components of Facility new construction and office moves and renovations).
- The Project Manager leads these projects through initiation, planning, execution and closure phases as they move from design, to build, to installation, go-live, training and ultimately into the customer’s operational state.
- Project initiatives with our customer involve multiple technologies, integrated systems, business unit functions and customers. The Project Manager performs the essential functions required to ensure consistent, quality, successful delivery of assigned projects, while managing competing demands of scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and stakeholder expectations.
Responsibilities:
Scope Development:
- Formulates/defines project scope objectives in a collaborative manner with business customers, IT technical staff and the PMO through independent research and fact-finding in order to understand the needs of the project and estimate the effort in terms of time and money.
- Assess hardware, software, and licensing needs, and directs customers on developing fiscal budgets for project spending; discusses ROI where appropriate to understand and capture stated benefits.
- Ensures formal acceptance of the project scope; ensures that the scope and stated goals include all the required work to complete the project.
Requirements Elicitation
- Works closely with the user community in validating that the technology solution discovered in scoping will meet their needs.
- Elicits formal requirements using interviews, requirements workshops, site visits, surveys, business process descriptions, Use Case scenarios, as well as business, task and workflow analysis.
- Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Proactively communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyze needs and functional requirements and delivers the following artifacts as needed: Functional requirements, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs.
Project Lifecycle Management:
- Manages the initiation, planning, execution, controlling and closure processes of the project life cycle.
- Prepares project charters to formally initiate the project and secures sign-off by the sponsor.
- Leads business and technical teams through solution validation, installation and implementation plans, etc. Teams may be augmented with consultants and suppliers determined within the boundaries of the project and product solution. In most cases, the extended set of consultants and suppliers will be considered part of the project team and must be managed by the Project Manager.
- Performs all aspects of schedule management to determine planned start and finished dates and baselines the project activities.
- Tracks and manages project schedules to ensure delivery of critical path milestones agreed to and approved by the customer and IT; integrates schedule dependencies with other initiatives.
- Tracks and report project progress and project team performance, risk and issues to project stakeholders.
- Coordinates vendor implementation activities which are external in nature but must be seamlessly factored into the program timelines.
- Assures Project Quality Management throughout the project through progress and reviews of deliverables against established requirements baselines.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology or relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Five (5+) years experience of formal project leadership with various project lifecycle methodologies (waterfall, agile, iterative, etc.).
- Minimum of three (3+) years experience in role where responsible for specific technologies, specialties and/or disciplines (e.g. applications development, networking, telephony, data base administration, etc.).
- Strong political and people skills to effectively communicate and manage change.
- Proven track record of customer relationship management with suppliers, IT technical managers/directors, etc.
- Demonstrated experience as a Project Manager producing and managing project delivery documentation with an emphasis on formal project lifecycle and SDLC documents.
- Familiarity with healthcare IT delivery and preferably experience in a small or critical access hospitals.
- Proficiency in the utilization of project management scheduling tools (e.g. MS project, CA Clarity, PlanView, etc.) is required.
- Analytical skills to identify problems and offer solutions.
- PMP certification preferred, but not required