Healthcare Project Manager
The Project Manager is responsible for the lifecycle of a project from initiation through execution, delivery, and close out. This includes coordination of teams and tasks for successful development and execution of project plans requiring coordination and collaboration across organizational departments and external stakeholders.
Terms: 5 month contract
Rate: $50/hour
Location: Addison, TX
Responsibilities:
• Facilitates initiatives including workflow redesigns, lean process improvement, patient experience optimization, strategic growth opportunities, and creation of structured communication and presentations.
• Works with designated project leads and project sponsors to develop project charters including scope, budget, resources, participants, timelines, milestones, metrics, and approval pathways.
• Establish clear decision making and communication processes for project launch. Provides ongoing communication and stakeholder management.
• Works with project lead and other participants to identify resources needed for a project.
• Supports the project lead to manage the scope, schedule, costs while planning for quality, resources, procurements, risk, stakeholder engagement and communication during the project life cycle to facilitate a successful project launch and delivery.
• Prioritizes and delegates tasks to members of the project team providing clear deliverables and deadlines. Provides reminders of assignments coming due and escalates items at risk of shifting the overall project target date.
• Demonstrates proficiency in organizational systems and analytic tools to provide ad hoc support for projects including spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and basic analysis engaging assistance from departments including IT, FPA, Business Development, and others for more advanced analytic needs and report builds.
• Leads the go live preparation and on-site implementation phases of simultaneous new center openings. Includes coordinating, assigning, and tracking tasks for multiple departments including Revenue Cycle, Operations, IT, Facilities, Credentialing, Marketing and Sales.
• Coordinates ready state for staff to see patients on the first day of go-live and provides on-site assistance during go live period when needed. Works with departments across the organization to mitigate challenges managing to targeted dates.
• Creates content and materials such as analytic slides, executive summaries, PowerPoints, etc. for presentation by leadership in various forums.
Experience:
• 5+ years project management experience required or a four-year degree.
• Experience with new facility openings highly preferred.
• Healthcare experience preferred.
• Strong analytical skills are required.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred.
• Smartsheet experience preferred.
• Experience with hospital joint ventures preferred.
• Direct experience with radiology systems, including functionality, performance, requirements, interoperability, and user roles preferred.
• Knowledge of applications, technology, and processes used in a healthcare setting, ability to quickly understand new applications.
***This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm your work authorization in the U.S.***