Project Manager, Compliance - University of Maryland Medical System

This position requires being onsite two days per week with Monday's being mandatory. 

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.

General Summary

Under limited supervision, facilitates and manages departmental and organizational projects.  Provides support and expertise in the planning, development and coordination of projects within the organization. Including operationalizing project plans by gathering appropriate information, identifying and collaborating with key stakeholders, and synthesizing highly complex information. Develops systematic, sustainable processes and establishes their structural foundations. Serves as key resource for communication, project planning, data management, and process improvement initiatives.

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.

• Autonomously facilitates and operationalizes projects to achieve established departmental and organizational goals, while considering all appropriate stakeholders.
• Independently standardizes processes, communications, and tracking methods for use in ongoing project planning, sustainability, and improvement. Creates structure from ambiguous and numerous sources of information.
• Develops and leads in project activities including but not limited to scope identification, budget planning and fiscal onus, and ongoing communication and collaboration with team members. Independently prepares written documents, delegates tasks as necessary, and monitors and analyzes progress of project tasks.
• Interfaces and collaborates with key stakeholders throughout the hospital in the development, planning and execution of project activities.  Autonomously assesses the need for disseminating and retrieving pertinent information and communicates with all organizational levels as necessary.  Coordinates stakeholder and user group meetings to accomplish informatics goals.
• Compiles and synthesizes highly complex data, analyzes outcomes, and prepares reports for ongoing process and outcome review. Responsible for the research and data compilation from a variety of internal and external resources to provide support for project plans, reporting and regulatory compliance. Reports include but are not limited to graphical representations of data, oral presentations, written reports, and visual presentations.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, Healthcare Administration, or a related field required or equivalent experience.
• Two (2) years of professional experience in communications, project management, etc., required. Healthcare setting preferred.
• Must possess project management certification from PMI or other accrediting agency or must obtain certification within 2 years.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Highly effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills to effectively relate with all levels of hospital staff and stakeholders.
• Proficiency in standard computer applications including MS Office suite applications.
• Understanding and familiarity with quantitative and qualitative data and is able to present information to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to understand, analyze, synthesize and manage highly complex information.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated skills in project management, communications, budget management.
• Ability to work collegially within complex systems, take initiative to appropriately identify resources, and maintain a mature and professional working environment.
• Ability to work effectively and improvise when approached with immediate deadlines and unprompted changes to project plan.
• Ability to effectively manage activity timelines and comprehend overall project goals.
• Ability to identify pertinent details and ensure project goals and needs are communicated appropriately.

The University of Maryland Medical System Corporate Compliance and Business Ethics Department operates in a hybrid work environment. Team members are required to be on-site two days a week, with the option to work remotely for the remaining days.