IT Project Manager II - University of Maryland Medical System

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Under general supervision, manage specific aspects of one or more medium to large projects or programs for clinical or business applications in the healthcare environment. This includes organizing and managing teams, developing project plans and schedules, managing issues, risks, costs, managing to schedule and scope and communicating at all levels of the organization.

Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. These are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

1. Deploys and organizes resources, develops timetables and targets and checks progress. Creates a clear, logical and realistic plan of activities, for medium to large size projects.

2. Manage medium to large projects using best-practice project management approaches to deliver against approved estimates for quality on-time and on-budget projects.

3. Communicates the project business value and seeks to ensure supported metrics for medium to large projects.

4. Supports and executes improvements in existing quality assurance tools and processes.

5. Develops and analyze project interdependencies to effectively structure schedules and resources and understand potential impacts.

6. Anticipates and identify issues, monitor the project and measure risk factors. Implement continuous quality control of process and deliverables.

7. Translates business requirements into practical IT solutions, which can be implemented.

8. Build effective networks of internal and external subject matter expert contacts including directors.

9. Meet with key players to test ideas, identify issues and gain commitment on recommendations.

10. Use commonalities/differences within the team members’ goals, values and problem-solving styles to generate multiple alternatives in leading group to achieve a result.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business administration or related field from which comparable knowledge and abilities have been acquired.
• Five years program and/or project management experience is required.
• Experience with SCRUM or other agile methodology is required
• Specialized certification preferred e.g. Change Management, Process Improvement, Project Management).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to manage medium to large scale project teams. Ability to set up, plan, manage, report and communicate medium size projects and direct the completion of projects within proper scope, budget and schedule.
• Demonstrate ability to think strategically. Demonstrate sufficient understanding of some functions to structure and manage project work. Generate innovative and practical solutions to complex or unusual problems.
• Support client relationship management and oversees IT project execution and reporting. Possesses excellent customer service skills.
• Act as lead resource for dealing with project issues, ability to lead projects. Understands appropriate escalation process. Work with the team to make decisions considering the degree of impact on areas involved. Demonstrated ability to reach agreement and potential solutions through flexibility and compromise with peers, customer/client, and managers.
• Proficiency in the use of personal computers and related peripheral equipment is required. Familiarity with Microsoft Office products and Microsoft Project is preferred.
• Structure and manage projects to meet client expectations, deliver value and minimize potential obstacles and risks. Understand and manage stakeholder needs and build commitment to project solutions that deliver target business value.
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills are necessary in order to work with all levels within the organization, and produce clear and concise reports of relatively complicated issues.

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