Project Manager I OIM PM1

Project Manager I OIM PM1 - 001

Responsible for providing leadership to a team committed to achieving specified goals of a project. Provides high quality and cost effective project management, analytic support services and technical expertise for a broad array of issues. This is the first job in a three (3) level Project Manager Ladder. At the entry level, a Project Manager may lead projects that impact a single functional area or service area. It is responsible for working on problems of moderate scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Position will exercise judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Essential Functions: - Leads and provides technical leadership to projects. - Sets strategic direction of projects. - Develops project plans which identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics and resources required. - Designs processes to address identified problems. - Establishes team membership and negotiates time commitments and resource allocation. - Provides staff leadership to multi-disciplinary teams. - Motivates team members and facilitates team meetings. - Acts as liaison, problem solver, and facilitator. - Cultivates and reinforces appropriate group values, norms, and behaviors. - Provides guidance to team on performance and productivity issues. - Designs research plans for data gathering and analysis. - Actively participates or may lead in analyzing data and developing recommendations and action plans. - Accountable for the development of project documentation for senior executives and other key clients to facilitate sharing of project outcomes and best practices. - Plans and facilitates meetings. - Makes formal presentations to various senior level audiences. - Assesses project impact on the workforce. - May include developing training program for different levels of audiences. - May develop and manage a department, including recruiting, coaching, performance evaluation of staff. - Performs other related duties as assigned by management. Secondary Functions: - Serve as primary contact and resource for multiple clinical projects, which primarily relate to clinical systems implementation and workflow redesign. - Understand standard workflows for assigned departments - Partner with department leaders to identify and prioritize potential projects, work with business partners to lay out a frame work for the project, and propose well thought-out business cases to department leadership. - Partner with department leaders to identify workflows and utilization of electronic clinical systems that may have potential issues or be inherently difficult. Work with business partners to lay out frame work for a solution, and propose well thought-out business cases to department leadership - Serve as resource for counterpart Project Managers for implementation or integration of projects they own, into assigned departments - Manages several projects. - Knowledge of Kaiser Permanente's systems and operations, including KP HealthConnect(EPIC). - Assists with all aspects of the implementation of clinical systems and workflow redesign projects involving department or cross-functional teams from the design process through a finished state for internal customers. - Takes projects from original concept through final implementation and provides a single point of contact for projects. -Assists with defining project scope and objectives. - Coordinates all aspects of project and serves as primary project manager between clients, line management and other internal resources. - Monitors the project from initiation through delivery, interfacing with customer on all matters. -Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals. Qualifications: Basic Qualifications: - Three (3) plus years of experience in specified technical area. - Project management experience in health care preferred. - Bachelors degree in business administration, health care administration, operations research, public health administration or other related field or equivalent work experience. - Master's degree or clinical licenses (RN, MD, etc.) preferred. - Ability to determine key business issues and develop appropriate action plans from multi-disciplinary perspectives. - Demonstrated ability to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses. - Good project management and consulting skills. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.