DAR Project Manager
About The Position
The DAR Project Manager is responsible for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing complex projects across multiple teams. The role works closely with project stakeholders, including executive and operational sponsors, frontline staff, hospital departments, and vendors, and keeps projects on track while maintaining an end-to-end view of each project. The position also contributes to organizational development and problem solving related to DAR, Information Management, the Center for Excellence, and the Enterprise Project Management Office. Using knowledge of analytics and knowledge-development strategies, the Project Manager recommends and supports solutions to analytic challenges, coordinating hospital resources to develop and implement sustainable solutions. The role oversees projects involving analytics, reporting, data governance, and data development. It develops and manages project plans, estimates resource needs, manages milestones, schedules, budgets, scope, risks, and quality reviews, and may use Agile/Scrum methods. The Project Manager consults with hospital leaders on analytic needs; facilitates multidisciplinary teams and supports operational owners in setting goals and priorities; coordinates project-management procedures and resources for sustaining outcomes; resolves issues and conflicts; communicates progress and barriers; builds partnerships across the hospital; and ensures compliance with data governance practices, including data-sharing agreements and Institutional Review Board restrictions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, healthcare administration, nursing, social sciences, or a related analytics field.
- At least 3 years of demonstrated experience working with complex projects in a hospital environment in quality improvement, financial management, or other key hospital operations.
- Excellent project-management and organizational skills, including the ability to manage a project from scoping through implementation and sustainability.
- Interpersonal and interdisciplinary communication, group process, negotiation, change-management, conflict-resolution, and facilitation skills; ability to present to groups at all levels.
- Effective listening skills and the ability to understand differing perspectives and synthesize findings to achieve results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Interpersonal and business-analysis skills, including the ability to understand and articulate customer needs and help customers make decisions to accomplish their objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to earn credibility with healthcare organization leaders, including clinicians.
- Excellent analytical, process-thinking, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree.
- PMI or Agile/Scrum certification.
- Experience managing technical system implementations, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and/or Electronic Health Record application projects.
- Knowledge of analytic and reporting solutions such as Business Objects, SQL, SAS, SPSS, Microsoft Power BI, Epic Cogito Suite, or similar software.
- Experience in an Academic Medical Center.
Responsibilities
- Provide oversight and coordination for analytics, reporting, data governance, and data development projects.
- Develop and manage project plans that mitigate risks and achieve outcomes, incorporating input from project requestors and DAR staff.
- Review project resource needs and escalate resource requests to appropriate leaders.
- Manage project milestones, schedules, budgets, and risk-mitigation plans; use Agile/Scrum methodologies when needed.
- Lead quality-control reviews of deliverables during analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation to ensure conformance with industry standards, best practices, and accreditation requirements.
- Determine resource requirements, develop budgets, manage project scope, and assist with budget monitoring and scheduling.
- Consult with hospital leaders on efficient and accurate ways to meet analytic needs.
- Work with staff at all organizational levels; facilitate and manage multidisciplinary teams and help operational owners set project goals and priorities.
- Coordinate and manage assigned projects.
- Coordinate development and documentation of project-management procedures and resources to sustain project outcomes.
- Resolve issues and manage conflict to keep teams moving forward.
- Communicate project progress, issues, barriers, and possible solutions to project teams and department leadership while reinforcing a team-focused project-management culture.
- Build and maintain partnerships and cohesive support across the hospital community.
- Ensure compliance with applicable data-governance practices, including data-sharing agreements and Institutional Review Board restrictions on data use.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Employer-paid group term life and disability insurance.
- Employer contribution toward a Health Savings Account.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Paid Time Off (PTO), paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
- 403(b) with a 5% employer match.
- Supplemental life, AD&D, and disability coverage.
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity coverage.
- Tuition assistance.
- Student loan servicing and support.
- Adoption benefits.
- Backup childcare and eldercare.
- Employee Assistance Program and specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members.
- Discounts on services at Lurie Children’s facilities.
- Discount purchasing program.
- Wellbeing programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
