Revenue Cycle

Revenue Cycle - Project Manager III

THIS JOB IS UNDER REVIEW BY TOTAL COMPENSATION AND AS A RESULT THE FLSA STATUS MAY CHANGE. Under general direction, provides leadership to two or more Project Managers. Ensures strategic direction of projects are in line with organizational business plan. Ensures various project teams provide high quality and cost effective project management, analytic support services and technical expertise. May also manage a team committed to achieving specified goals of a highly visible, complex and multi-faceted project. This is the third job in a three level Project Manager Ladder. At this level, the Project Manager is responsible for providing leadership to lower level Project Managers. This position works on problems of complex and diverse scope where analysis of data requires in-depth evaluation of various factors. Projects assigned are broad in scope and may involve multiple functional areas and/or span across service areas. Position will exercise judgment within broadly defined policies in developing methods and techniques for obtaining results. Essential Functions: - Provides leadership to two or more Project Managers. - Facilitates resolution of major problems encountered by Project Managers. - Works with senior management to negotiate major revisions in time commitment and resource allocation. - Ensures strategic directions of projects are in line with organizational business plan. - Provides general oversight, leadership and technical direction. - Provides leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, as well as manages work of outside consultants. - Motivates team members and facilitates team meetings. - Acts as liaison, problem solver, and facilitator. - 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. - Establishes procedures regarding implementation of project outcome. - Assesses project impact on workforce. - May include developing training program for different levels of audiences. - Establishes effective professional business relationships with all levels of management. - Instructs and educates on all aspects of projects. - Coaches and mentors Project Managers; motivates them to maintain a consistent level of excellence in project management and outcomes. - May develop and manage a department, including recruiting, coaching, performance evaluation of staff. Qualifications: Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Operations Research, Public Health Administration, or other related field. - Master's Degree or Clinical Licenses (RN, MD, etc.) strongly preferred. - Eight (8)+ years of progressive experience in specified technical area. - Project management experience in health care preferred. - Proven ability to determine key business issues and develop effective action plans from multi-disciplinary perspectives. - Demonstrated ability to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses. - Excellent leadership, project management, and consulting skills. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills. - Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment. Preferred Qualifications: - Knowledge of Revenue Cycle business processes, including registration, coding, charge entry, billing, and collections. - Knowledge of provider-based financial and system data requirements within each of the Revenue Cycle business processes. - Operations experience in one or more Revenue Cycle business processes (consulting experience can substitute for operations experience). -Ability to facilitate stakeholder meetings, including agenda development, discussion documentation, action item follow-up, and presentation development. - Experience in developing and maintaining MS Project work plans, including summary data extract for milestones, major deliverables, deliverable due dates, resource leveling, dependencies, and efforts driven timeline. - Experience in working with business and IT owners to translate strategic objectives/initiatives into detail tactical tasks. - Experience in identifying, documenting, tracking, and managing project issues, including repository/template development, report generation, and summary communication development. - Experience in working with issue owners to identify remediation details, document current progress, and develop alternative/contingency plan to resolve issue in a timely manner. - Experience in budget development, maintenance, and financial accruals, including linkages to project work plan. - Experience in managing department budget linking multiple cost centers. - Revenue Cycle operations. - Project Management of small, large initiatives. - Experience in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Project.