Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Full-Time, Salary, Exempt, Benefits Eligible
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Supports the implementation of the PFK Strategic Plan by managing medium to large, collaborative, and complex projects focused on transforming outcomes of children through innovative disease management and achieving equity for health care services across PFK’s geographic region. Manages all aspects of their assigned service line’s projects, ensuring projects proceed as planned throughout the PFK project lifecycle.
Essential Functions:
- Leads medium and large projects through all phases of the PFK project life cycle development. Develops and ensures scope, timelines, deliverables, budgets, and quality are meeting and exceeding expectations. Other responsibilities include developing the communication plan, identifying, and escalating barriers or issues when needed, and asking clarifying questions.
- Provides core project deliverables based on project size, effective management of resources, standard project management methodologies and approaches, knowledge sharing, and feedback.
- Maintains the expectations and accuracy of the project plan in conjunction with project team members, senior leaders, and key stakeholders. Creates and maintains project documentation as appropriate for every project assigned.
- Contributes to the definition of project goals, alignment of those goals with PFK’s goals and strategic plan and ensures success criteria are defined during project initiation.
- Plans meeting agendas and documents meeting conclusions such as key drivers and interventions, project timelines, resource needs, and data plans.
- Ensures project teams have the resources (e.g., data, SME) available at each meeting to carry out their agendas. Completes strategic analyses for tracking each team’s progress toward its goal.
- Partners with community engagement staff to assess potential community partners and identify opportunities for collaboration, while ensuring timely and transparent communication with community stakeholders.
Education Requirement:
Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, healthcare, management, engineering, or a related field, required.
Certifications:
Project Management Professional Certification or Certified Associate in Project Management, preferred.
Skills:
- Ability to work independently, implement decisions, and display ability to recognize and navigate through inter-organization dynamics.
- Skilled in using structured facilitation techniques to guide discussions, promote understanding, and achieve consensus among team members and stakeholders.
- Strong skills in the use of PC desktop applications and online tools such as Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Stormboard, Mural.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate effectively with all levels of management and stakeholders.
- Proven track record in successful project completion (on-time, on-budget, goals met).
- Demonstrated ability to lead multiple medium to large sized projects ranging in complexity simultaneously.
- Demonstrated strong decision-making skills and ability to provide recommendations on policy and process improvement opportunities.
Experience:
- Three years of relevant program or project support, required.
- Project management experience in healthcare, supporting population health efforts, or Medicaid reimbursement, preferred.
- Experience in large organization or multi-organization system, preferred.
Physical Requirements:
OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Climb stairs/ladder, Depth perception, Flexing/extending of neck, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Hearing acuity, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Peripheral vision, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Repetitive hand/arm use, Seeing – Far/near, Squat/kneel, Walking
FREQUENTLY: Sitting, Standing
CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Computer skills, Decision Making, Interpreting Data, Problem solving
"The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individuals so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet"
