Healthcare IT Project Manager (Local / Hybrid)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

This IT Project Manager position is essential to supporting the expansion of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program across all surgical service lines. The IT Project Manager will lead and coordinate all HealthIT activities for the VUH ERAS initiative, spanning service lines currently in build as well as those in ongoing maintenance. Serving as the primary point of contact for all IT-related ERAS matters, this role will represent HealthIT at the ERAS steering committee and provide centralized coordination across every ERAS service line. The IT Project Manager will attend all service line meetings, develop and maintain the project schedule with clearly defined milestones, and ensure accurate documentation of project status, risks, and key deliverables within the enterprise project management tool.

Requirements

2+ years of project management experience
Project Coordination (Intermediate): Performs project tracking and reporting relative to task completion dates, dependency effects, problem anticipation, schedule conflicts, and assignment to appropriate staff for resolution. Manages prioritization procedures for changing scope [i.e., change management] and project acceptance procedures. Measures progress toward goals and revises project objectives and documents applying change control procedures. Assumes responsibility [as appropriate] for resolving issues and seeing work through to successful completion. Provides training to project managers and others on project related templates and toolsets. Develops methods to measure customer satisfaction and obtains feedback at critical milestones and at project completion to ensure project efforts meet customer expectations.
Project Planning (Intermediate): Demonstrates ability to forecast complex resource needs, identify and break work down into discrete and measurable tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, prepare acceptance criteria and organize work for one or more large projects. Plans for and anticipates events outside of immediate responsibility. Anticipates problems and obstacles before they arise. Sets priorities with a proper sense of urgency and importance. Develops creative ideas and takes innovative action to achieve planned goals and objectives. Is proficient in the use of project management tools.
Project Communications (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery of project communications in practical applications of a difficult nature. Effectively transmits technical and business ideas and information to others, including non-technical audiences. Shares knowledge, ideas and information openly, and effectively sells new ideas and influences others. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering project communications without requiring support and instruction from others.
Project Issues Management (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery of Issues Management in practical applications of a difficult nature. Adept at identifying issues before they become problems and assigning those issues to the right people at the right time. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully managing internal project issues without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to anticipate and resolve unplanned project issues as they arise.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree
PMP certification

Responsibilities

Coordinates and oversees all phases of the project.
Ensure timely completion of tasks in line with project objectives.
Provide customers and leadership support through project management.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.