Senior Project Manager 3

University of Washington•Seattle, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

UW Medicine IT Services has an outstanding job opportunity for a Senior Project Manager 3. This position is 100% FTE – 40 hours per week, Day Shift. The core hours are 08:00 – 17:00 (PST), Monday-Friday. UW Medicine ITS is a shared services organization that supports all of UW Medicine's institutions. ITS is responsible for the ongoing support and maintenance of the infrastructure and applications, along with the implementation of new services and applications. This role offers a HYBRID work opportunity, being primarily remote but requiring onsite work for projects. Current UW IT Services employees can continue to work 100% remote if they are currently doing so.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a healthcare-oriented profession, a technology field, a business-related field, or other discipline that demonstrates analytical or communications abilities, or related field or equivalent education and/or experience.
5+ years of overall experience to include the below:
5+ years of experience serving in a project leadership role with responsibility for managing progressively more complicated vendor-packaged system deployment and/or process improvement projects.
3+ years of recent experience utilizing MS Project to manage projects.
Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding all teams accountable for performance.
Demonstrated leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organizations/business units.
Demonstrated experience effectively working with multiple, diverse stakeholders in a complex project environment within a cross-functional matrix environment.
Demonstrated experience managing project work and/or work of others within an established standard project lifecycle framework.
Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated communication skills; both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff, all levels of management.
Strong experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule and within budget close.
Strong experience in SDLC, Waterfall, and Agile Project Methodologies.
Experience negotiating vendor contracts.
Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.
Experience maintaining relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives.
Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executive sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers.
Experience researching best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and using continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.

Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
Handle full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.
Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities.
Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project.
Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes.
Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings.
Develop with stakeholders KPIs for projects, programs, and/or portfolios.
Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs in order to help team(s) achieve organizational goals/objectives.
Provide onsite leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.