Project Manager III - People and Culture

The Project Manager III provides strategic leadership for multifaceted, cross-functional, high-impact projects that advance organizational priorities. This role oversees comprehensive project planning, execution, interdepartmental coordination, and stakeholder engagement to ensure deliverables are achieved within approved scope, timelines, and funding parameters.

Beyond project delivery, the Project Manager III identifies strategic opportunities to enhance or scale initiatives, providing high-level budget tracking and managing risk to make informed trade-off decisions, developing complex proposals and presenting data-driven recommendations to ensure alignment. This role leads matrixed project teams, mobilizes stakeholders in support of continuous improvement initiatives, and advises leaders on project direction, risks, and investment decisions.

The Project Manager III exercises wide latitude for independent judgment and decision-making and plays a key role in shaping project impact and value realization across the organization.

SERIES CONCEPT: A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources. And a project is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed to accomplish a singular goal. So, a project team often includes people who don't usually work together – sometimes from different functional areas and across multiple geographies. Required Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in business, healthcare or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience gained through project coordination, operations, or administrative roles that demonstrate readiness for project management work. Minimum of seven (7) years related experience to include at least five (5) years managing multifaceted projects. Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, multifaceted, or enterprise-impacting projects from initiation through close, managing significant operational, financial, and organizational impacts. Proven ability to manage project scope, schedules, resources, risks, and budgets for multiple projects simultaneously while navigating competing and moving priorities. Proven success managing consultants and purchased services to ensure project delivery. Experience leading, coaching, and mentoring project teams, project coordinators, and junior project managers.

Required Credentials
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required within 6 months of hire.

Preferred
Demonstrated use of formal project management methodologies, governance frameworks, or portfolio management practices. Experience building and managing vendor relations. Master's degree in health administration, business, or related field or Master's Certificate in Project Management Experience identifying opportunities and leading continuous improvement or quality improvement practices within projects. Experience contributing to strategic planning, investment decisions, or enterprise initiatives. Experience contributing to strategic planning, investment decisions, or enterprise initiatives. Experience leading projects that span multiple departments, service lines, or organizations.

Compensation Range

$118,174.00 - $177,262.00 per year

Salary Information

This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.

Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants

This compensation range is specific to Seattle, positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors .

Benefits Information

Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website

About Us

Hope. Care. Cure. These three simple words capture what we do at Seattle Children’s – to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Are you ready to engage with a mission-driven organization that is life-changing to many, and touches the hearts of all? #HOPECARECURE

Our founding promise to the community is as valid today as it was over a century ago: we will care for all children in our region, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric and adolescent, academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.




U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Seattle Children’s among the nation’s best children’s hospitals. For more than a decade, Seattle Children’s has been nationally recognized in key specialty areas. We are honored to be one of the nation’s very best places to care for children and the top-ranked pediatric hospital in Washington and the Pacific Northwest.

As a Magnet designated institution, we recognize the importance of hiring and developing great talent to provide best-in-class care to the patients and families we serve. Our organizational DNA takes form in our core values: Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Equity and Innovation. Whether it’s delivering frontline care to our patients in a kind and caring manner, practicing the highest standards of quality and safety, or being relentlessly curious as we work towards eradicating childhood diseases, these values are the fabric of our culture and community. The future starts here.

Our Commitment

Seattle Children’s welcomes people of all experiences, backgrounds, and thoughts as this is what drives our spirit of inquiry and allows us to better connect with our patients and families. Our organization recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes based on merit without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

The people who work at Seattle Children’s are members of a community that seeks to respect and celebrate all the qualities that make each of us unique. Each of us is empowered to be ourselves.

Seattle Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Workplace and Affirmative Action Employer.