PROJECT MANAGER (CA)

Description

MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT OCHIN
OCHIN is a rapidly growing national nonprofit health IT organization with over two decades of experience transforming health care delivery to drive health equity. We are hiring for a number of positions to meet increasing demand. When you choose to join OCHIN, you have the opportunity to continuously grow your skills and do meaningful work to help fulfill our mission.

About the role

OCHIN provides leading-edge technology, data analytics, research, and support services to nearly 1,000 community health care sites, reaching nearly 6 million patients nationally. We believe that every individual, no matter their race, ethnicity, background, or zip code, should have fair opportunity to achieve their full health potential. Our work addresses differences in health that are systemic, avoidable, and unjust. We partner, learn, innovate, and advocate, in order to close the gap in health for individuals and communities negatively impacted by racism or other structural inequities.

Responsibilities

• Scoping and requirements gathering for assigned projects
• Build, manage, and organize appropriate project plans for any assigned projects
• Develop, maintain, and revise all project materials
• Track progress of projects and ensure all milestones and timelines are met, quickly identifying and escalating any risks to meeting these milestones and timelines
• Collaborate and negotiate with project sponsors and other stakeholders on project management strategy, timeframes, and specific outcomes to be achieved
• Identify relevant stakeholders and build communication strategies to ensure project deliverables are on time, within budget, and meet desired outcome metrics
• Employ change management strategies and tactics
• Work closely with project sponsors, OCHIN management, and other stakeholders to ensure that projects and project tactics align with OCHIN’s strategic goals
• Provide excellent customer service to members and to other external and internal project stakeholders
• Build strong customer relationship with OCHIN members and serve as a trusted partner
• Afford efficient and effective run of internal and member facing meetings, assuring follow-ups are captured and deliverables completed, to drive progress toward project completion

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (Business, Healthcare, Health Informatics preferred) or a combination of college education and 5-7 years of relevant experience
• Minimum 2 years of experience in complex project coordination or management, preferably in a healthcare and/or IT setting, including 2,000+ hours leading and managing projects
• Proven success in internal and external communication and relationship management with all levels from administrative to executive
• Technical aptitude to fully understand and gain the necessary system knowledge required to effectively collaborate with members and team members on any project assigned
• Proficiency in Smartsheet, Microsoft Project or similar system preferred
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and analytical thinking skills
• Strong potential for self-direction/self-management skills with the ability to work independently and effectively as a sole contributor and as part of a team
• Innovation & Improvement Project Manager: Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification required. Certification in agile, scrum, waterfall, lean or other methodologies preferred
• Install Project Manager / Data Conversion: PMP/CAPM certification, or equivalent experience leading EHR implementations, preferred. Epic implementation, certification, or training experience preferred

Qualifications

• Constant interpersonal skills, teamwork, and customer service
• Frequent creativity, mentoring, presentations/teaching
• Occasional decision making and independent judgment or action
• Reading, speaking, writing, and understanding English
• Ability to work independently and efficiently from a home office environment
• High Speed Internet Service

Benefits

Base Pay Overview
OCHIN uses broadened pay ranges to support equitable and market-aligned compensation practices. Pay information by position level is listed below. The final offer will be based on a variety of factors, including relevant skills, certifications, education, experience, training, responsibilities, internal equity, and market data.

Salary Description
$98,552 - $157,683