Project Manager - Epic - Military Veterans

Location:

Rosedale Office Building

Department:

Technology Services

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Standard Weekly Hours:

40

Summary:

As a Project Manager at Cook Childrens, you will be an independent contributing IT professional within the Project Management family. The Project Manager plays a critical role in the coordination and completion of a variety of IT projects within the Cook Childrens Health Care System. The Project Manager will work closely with other IT teams and operational stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered completely within scope and on time. The Project Manager supports new and existing hospitals, hospital services, new and existing clinics and inpatient and outpatient department implementations, Epic Upgrades and Epic Modules, as well as optimization projects for the Epic teams (Patient Access, Revenue Cycle, Inpatient, Ambulatory, Anesthesia/OR, Ancillary, Training, Data Integration, Database/ETL, Digital Experience, Business Intelligence, Security and Technical Teams). The Project Manager must have excellent organization and communication skills and have experience in working with team members of different groups to achieve quality results in a timely manner. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Collaborate interdepartmentally to understand project scope, requirements, and success criteria
Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Project Plan, in order to align the stakeholders and team members.
Utilizing PMO Playbook and PMBOK best practices and process/knowledge areas to effectively manage and complete projects
Managing the development or direct creation of standard project artifacts and their updates as necessary (Project Charter, Project Resourcing/Staffing, WBS/Project Schedule, Requirements documentation, status reporting, presentations, communication plan, risk/issue registry, lessons learned, close out documentation, and others as required)
Scope management and project change management
PPM/Project Management tool updates for assigned projects
Managing risks/issues and escalating as necessary
Guide and direct project team members to ensure compliance with set standards, procedures, and guidelines
Evaluate the progress of a project to detect limitations or faults to seek solutions
Successfully manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
Stakeholder management
Project portfolio management
Assist in internal PMO process improvement initiatives
Assist in annual budgeting and portfolio planning activities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree Required.

• Position requires 5 years or more of direct experience

• Position requires 3 years of more of experience with EHR systems

• Position requires 2 years or more of experience working with Epic Application Modules

• 3 or more years working within a PMO

• Experience with software systems implementation lifecycle

• Experience in Waterfall project management methodology, Agile methodology experience is a plus

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification

• PMP Certification required

• CSM Certification a plus

About Us:

Cook Children's Health Care System

Cook Children's Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the country's leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Children's to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.

Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.