Director of Project Management

Jupiter Medical Center•Lexington, MA

About The Position

The Director of Project Management will play a critical role in transforming the project management function at Jupiter Medical Center (JMC) to drive project management activities to support key strategic initiatives. The leader will develop a centralized and directive Project Management Office (PMO) to manage a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to: Strategic Oversight: Providing vision and strategic direction to project management teams, aligning processes with organizational goals, and developing strategies to improve delivery timelines, cost efficiency, and project outcomes. Project Delivery and Ownership: Overseeing the execution of a diverse portfolio of projects, potentially including directly managing complex or high-impact projects, and ensuring successful delivery. Leadership and Mentorship: Leading and managing a team of project managers, fostering a high-performance culture, providing coaching, mentorship, and support for professional development. Stakeholder Communication: Ensuring projects meet or exceed stakeholder expectations, serving as an escalation point for issues, strengthening interdepartmental relationships, and managing stakeholder expectations. Resource Allocation and Management: Assessing project requirements, allocating resources (human, equipment, materials), optimizing resource utilization, and tracking project budgets and schedules. Risk Management: Identifying potential project risks, developing mitigation strategies, and monitoring risks throughout the project lifecycle. Process Optimization: Continuously evaluating and improving project management processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency, quality, and project outcomes. This may involve introducing and refining methodologies based on Project Management Institute (PMI) best practices. Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Establishing project performance metrics, tracking progress, analyzing data, and providing reports to senior leadership. Cross-functional Collaboration: Acting as a strategic liaison between various departments and executive leadership, championing collaboration and communication. Contract Compliance and Safety: Ensuring projects comply with contract requirements, internal policies, industry regulations, and safety guidelines. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, healthcare administration or other related field.
Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) required.
Minimum of 5-7 years direct project management experience in a healthcare setting.
Minimum of 3 years of experience working in a project management leadership role with a significant focus on planning, project oversight and execution.
Proven depth of understanding and demonstratable results for effective management of intermediate to large-scale projects, using best practice approaches.
Ability to work autonomously, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Strong organizational skills.
Ability to interact with executives and hospital/clinic operations required.
Ability to maintain confidential and company proprietary information.
Annual Joint Commission mandatory education requirements, in-service and health requirements including attendance at new employee orientation.
TB/PPD Surveillance Program.
Maintenance of required professional licensing and/or certification(s).

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Foundational understanding of process improvement is preferred.

Responsibilities

Strategic Oversight: Providing vision and strategic direction to project management teams, aligning processes with organizational goals, and developing strategies to improve delivery timelines, cost efficiency, and project outcomes.
Project Delivery and Ownership: Overseeing the execution of a diverse portfolio of projects, potentially including directly managing complex or high-impact projects, and ensuring successful delivery.
Leadership and Mentorship: Leading and managing a team of project managers, fostering a high-performance culture, providing coaching, mentorship, and support for professional development.
Stakeholder Communication: Ensuring projects meet or exceed stakeholder expectations, serving as an escalation point for issues, strengthening interdepartmental relationships, and managing stakeholder expectations.
Resource Allocation and Management: Assessing project requirements, allocating resources (human, equipment, materials), optimizing resource utilization, and tracking project budgets and schedules.
Risk Management: Identifying potential project risks, developing mitigation strategies, and monitoring risks throughout the project lifecycle.
Process Optimization: Continuously evaluating and improving project management processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency, quality, and project outcomes. This may involve introducing and refining methodologies based on Project Management Institute (PMI) best practices.
Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Establishing project performance metrics, tracking progress, analyzing data, and providing reports to senior leadership.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Acting as a strategic liaison between various departments and executive leadership, championing collaboration and communication.
Contract Compliance and Safety: Ensuring projects comply with contract requirements, internal policies, industry regulations, and safety guidelines.
Performs other duties as assigned.