Hospital Construction Project Director

Essential Responsibilities

• Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others.
• Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement.
• Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs.
• Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams.
• Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives.
• Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and / or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies.
• Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues.
• Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources.
• Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.
• Directs the delivery of large-scale projects with responsibility and accountability for project outcomes from initiation to close-out.
• Reviews project plans and determines project demands in order to identify and manage scope, and supply appropriate staffing to complete project plans within scope, budget and schedule.
• Oversees management of the project financials of assigned projects and ensures they are managed within budget allocations.
• Reviews performance across a portfolio of projects and makes changes as appropriate.
• Develops processes and procedures for the development and execution of organizational change management (e.g., user adoption, implementation, and training plans).
• Oversees proper project management practices in regard to allocation of resources, schedules and task assignments.
• Directs project teams and holds teams accountable for results.
• Oversees the decisions of others in reference to internal and/or external resource requests based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands.
• Leverages expertise to create a clear vision of overall project goals and objectives. Delivers performance feedback to teams.
• Proactively monitors, identifies, and mitigates project risks, issues, and trigger events across multiple inter-dependent projects by leveraging expertise and recommending changes to project processes based on the analyses and identification of trigger events.
• Directs adherence of project activities to policies and procedures by ensuring project plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.
• Directs the alignment, buy-in, engagement and support of diverse project stakeholders to set long-term project goals by building and maintaining relationships as well as communicating appropriately with internal customers, third party vendors, executive management, and business leaders; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders.
• Buils close relationships with key stakeholders across multiple functions based on their level of influence and decision making and guides teams in identifying the right stakeholders for their projects.
• Directs project goals, influences the prioritization of deliverables, coordinates all business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitates decisions necessary for project delivery by partnering with project sponsors and/or review boards.
• Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering formal presentations, and providing reports to executive audiences.
• Oversees vendor performance and provides direction for service improvements or revisions to strategy. Partners with Procurement and/or Legal to develop service level and/or scope of work agreements as appropriate. Directs partnerships and contract negotiations with vendors.

Qualifications

• Minimum six (6) years experience in construction and/or design project management.
• Minimum four (4) years experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Minimum four (4) years experience implementing large, complex projects in a corporate, non-profit, or government environment.
• Minimum three (3) years experience managing operational or project budgets.
• Bachelor's degree or certification in Architecture, Engineering, Construction or a directly related field.
• Five (5) years of experience working in an integrated healthcare delivery system.
• Five (5) years of experience working with healthcare operations.
• Completion of a project management educational training or certification program.
• Eight (8) years experience in design and construction activities for hospitals and/or medical office buildings.
• Eight (8) years experience negotiating contracts for design consultants and contractors.