Project Manager

Req Number 192527

Job Description

Plans, manages, and coordinates project activities to ensure goals and objectives of multiple and large projects are accomplished within prescribed time-frame and funding parameters. Establishes timelines and ensures project deadlines are met. Maintains integrity and cost containment of projects.

The Project Manager will be responsible for supporting and driving quality improvement initiatives, system implementations, and MIPS-related projects across Northwell's ambulatory network. This role operates within a matrixed environment, with stakeholders across multiple departments, service lines, and facilities. The Project Manager will coordinate meetings, manage timelines, track deliverables, escalate roadblocks, and present progress to leadership and stakeholders.

• Plans, manages, and coordinates projects and ensures project initiatives and timelines are met. Develops project initiation process by defining project scope, determining action items, assigning ownership, creating project timetables, and tracking execution and workflow; prepares, presents and distributes project status reports.

• Evaluates, plans, and monitors project implementation for clinical systems; manages project and project delivery teams, ensures deadlines are met, escalates issues for appropriate, timely resolution and adheres to standardized project management methodologies.

• Develops interdisciplinary project teams in coordination with clinical community to ensure deployment of systems; serves as liaison to project sponsors, project teams and stakeholders; works with internal, external groups to optimize success of project deployment.

• Communicates with user departments and project teams on project activities; confers with project staff and vendors to provide support and resolve problems; collaborates with clinical, financial and quality teams to define and develop metric goals. Partners with management to develop tools and metrics to evaluate performance of target initiatives; assists with planning monitoring criteria and methodology.

• Ensures availability of performance measurement data for review and analysis; evaluates and drives risk management process improvements, efficiencies and workflow enhancements.

• Partners with management, identifies end user education, training program and services; assists in the development and maintains department policies and procedures.

• Provides subject matter expert support in the development of clinical information systems and integration to improve the timely completion of projects.

• Operates under general guidance and work assignments are varied and require interpretation and independent decisions on course of action.

• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.

• 1-3 years of relevant experience, required.

• Master's degree (or current enrollment in a master's program), highly preferred.

• Healthcare industry experience.

• Familiarity with MIPS (Merit-Based Incentive Payment System)

• Experience with project management software (Smartsheet, Monday.com, or similar)

• Experience working in a matrixed organization.

• PMP certification, preferred.

• Experience with quality improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, PDSA, etc)

• Experience presenting to senior leadership.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

The salary range for this position is $70470.00-$116870.00/year

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