Project Manager - Ambulatory Services

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

7h

About The Position

The Project Manager Ambulatory Services is responsible for leading and executing a portfolio of operational, clinical, and administrative projects across the ambulatory enterprise. This role manages initiatives from design through implementation, applying strong decision making, analytical, and problem solving skills to drive performance improvement and ensure alignment with institutional standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in business administration, Public Health, Management Science, Engineering, Nursing, Social Sciences, or similar degree
• 4 years of relevant experience
• Advanced degree may be used in lieu of years of experience

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in a related field

Responsibilities

• Serves as a primary point of contact for receiving, coordinating, and preparing project information for projects commissioned by ambulatory leadership.
• Manages project intake, establishing workflows, and supporting process development across ambulatory, clinical, and administrative areas.
• Develops and maintains comprehensive project plans, including scope, budgets, timelines, goals, deliverables, and communication strategies.
• In collaboration with senior ambulatory leaders and stakeholders within ambulatory services and other departments, define project scope, goals and deliverables that support ambulatory operations and Health System performance improvement goals.
• Develop full scale project plans and associated communications documents; effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Identifies risks, manages dependencies, and resolves issues in collaboration with respective leaders.
• Prepares standard and ad hoc reports, auditing departmental processes and recommending improvements, and ensuring compliance with applicable policies, and institutional requirements.
• Provides guidance to other project teams, conducts post project evaluations, and develops best practices and tools to support successful project execution.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with ambulatory partners as well as collaborators from other health system departments, serving as a liaison to leadership, clinical directors, staff, and administrative offices.
• Embodies high reliability and accountability and provides proactive and accountable project support and leadership in all aspects of project management.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level