Clinical IT Project Manager - Associate

Responsibilities

• Reinforce project management methodologies and tools across multi-functional IT teams, internal stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Aids in strategic plan oversight, monitoring, and adaptation based on institutional portfolio, program, or project needs.
• Reviews project proposals, defines business cases, scopes, and level of effort, identifies goals and objectives, determines capital and support costs, outlines risks, assumptions, and constraints, verifies priorities, identifies deliverables, creates project plans, and sets timelines.
• Adheres to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio standard operating policies & procedures such as Information Security vendor Person of Interest (POI) process, Request for Proposal (RFPs) processes, and other processes.
• Uses off-the-shelf project management tools to track project performance and schedule adherence.
• Organizes and leads project meetings with assigned resources, stakeholders, and vendors to discuss project goals and track progress throughout the project lifecycle.
• Documents current and future technical workflows as well as end-user workflows with the objective of capturing a summary overview, listing all relevant steps, and identifying potential gaps while offering recommendations to support institutional improvements.
• Provides hands-on assistance with ancillary system configurations and validation rounds when necessary.
• Applies change control management techniques as part of project work or when necessary to meet project scope variations.
• Sums up and presents clear and concise progress updates, findings, or recommendations using verbal and written communication techniques.
• Documents, analyzes, and applies lessons learned from one project to next, improving and refining each iteration as a repeatable process.
• Supports cross-functional teams including technical & application teams, training team, and vendor resources.
• Stays informed about Healthcare-IT and Project Management Institute industry trends, technologies, and best practices applicable to UTH's organizational objectives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with project management off-the-shelf tools (Microsoft - Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and other tools).
• Aptitude for applying analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to predict clinical, business, or technical challenges and looks to proactively head-off obstacles.
• Clear understanding of time management and organizational skills.
• General ability to communicate under pressure, speak publicly, prepare, deliver presentations, and escalate priority issues.
• Friendly, approachable, and open-minded to exploring different options and solutions for any given challenge.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific, technical, healthcare informatics, or mathematics field or four (4) years of comparable healthcare experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Minimum of one to three (1 to 3) years of experience in project management in a Healthcare or related setting working with Epic, leading industry Electronic Health Records (I.e., Cerner, McKesson, Meditech) or ancillary clinical systems.