IT Project Manager - Laboratory Information Systems

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

13h

About The Position

The IT Project Manager coordinates project team activities under occasional guidance, identifies the resources needed, and develops schedules to support timely project completion. The role requires familiarity with project scope, objectives, and team members’ roles, and implements small development projects or components of larger projects. The position solves medium to complex problems and provides project management support to customers and leadership. The manager coordinates and oversees all project phases, monitors tasks against project objectives, and helps ensure work is completed on time. The role includes project tracking and reporting, planning resources and schedules, managing scope changes and acceptance procedures, communicating technical and business information to varied audiences, and identifying and resolving project issues. The position may also provide training on project templates and tools and gather customer feedback at project milestones and completion. This position is part of Vanderbilt Health’s HealthIT organization, which develops and supports health information technology tools for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The department’s work supports patient care, education, research, and clinical and operational needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
At least 2 years of relevant work experience.
Ability to analyze moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
Ability to coordinate project work and provide informal guidance and support to team members.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing multiple clinical laboratory projects involving application builds, foreign system and instrument interfaces, validation, training, communication, and related activities.
Experience leading projects affecting numerous stakeholder organizations.
Experience using both Planview and Jira for project management.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate vendors and project members across different home teams.
PMI-PMP certification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Coordinate and oversee all phases of projects.
Ensure tasks are completed on time and in line with project objectives.
Provide project management support to customers and leadership.
Identify appropriate project resources and develop schedules.
Coordinate project team activities and clarify project scope, objectives, and team-member roles.
Implement small development projects or components of larger projects.
Track and report task completion, dependencies, potential problems, schedule conflicts, and assignments for resolution.
Manage prioritization and change-control procedures for changing scope and project acceptance.
Measure progress toward goals and revise project objectives and documents using change-control procedures.
Resolve project issues and follow work through to completion.
Forecast resource needs, break work into measurable tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, and prepare acceptance criteria.
Communicate technical and business information effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.
Identify project issues early, assign them to appropriate people, and resolve unplanned issues.
Provide training to project managers and others on project templates and toolsets.
Develop ways to measure customer satisfaction and obtain feedback at project milestones and completion.