Manager Project Management

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Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation's brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist's outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we're making new strides every day.

We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300 outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That's why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

The Manager of Project Management is responsible managing operational projects, ensuring that projects contained adhere to organizational objectives and internal best practices and are prioritized and resourced appropriately. The Manager also provides leadership and management to project management team members.

Department Name: Planning Design Construction
Job Status: Full time, 40 hours per week
Shift: Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm

• EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
• EXPERIENCE: Seven years of experience in project management or management consulting.
• EQUIVALENCY: In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, one year of professional experience will serve as an equivalency to one year of education.

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

No direct patient care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

1. Manages a portfolio of projects, which may include information technology, construction or operational projects, ensuring that projects contained in portfolio adhere to organizational objectives and internal best practices and are prioritized and resourced appropriately. Ensures appropriate guidance, documentation, governance, and metrics are delivered on each project within the portfolio.
2. Leads team members in the management and execution of highly complex or controversial projects and in the development and implementation of internal processes that govern service delivery.
3. Develops and implements communications to client groups on strategy, projects and hot topics.
4. Builds and maintains effective working relationship with peers across the organization.
5. Participates in leadership activities, contributing to the achievement of goals and objectives; evaluates team performance. Serves as a champion of organizational culture, influencing culture change to support strategic and operational objectives.
6. Provides recommendations and updates methodologies that serves as the basis for project leadership best practices for the department, that is also shared with other project leaders
7. May manage org-wide, annual training program for operational project leaders using the best practices.
8. Establishes performance metrics for team members. Assists team members in achieving performance standards and identifies opportunities for continual improvement to performance standards.
9. Establishes customer service standards for team members; resolves operational and customer service issues, makes decisions that are inclusive of multiple perspectives and solves underlying problems.
10. Selects, trains, develops, and evaluates project management leaders and team members. Makes decisions on hiring, terminations, promotions, and disciplinary actions as required.
11. Ensures staff and financial resources are utilized appropriately and shifts resources based on business needs within budget restraints. Develops budget recommendations for operating expenditures and monitors budget for department.

SCOPE AND LEVEL

GUIDELINES: Guidelines are in the form of stated goals and objectives for function.

COMPLEXITY: Work assignment is unstructured and leader is responsible for implementing and managing a variety of objectives, resources, and initiatives to achieve the goals of the function. Duties performed include operational planning; developing standards, priorities, guidelines, processes, measurement (evaluation) systems; implementation of production and performance management standards; and allocating resources. Work is tactical and operational in nature.

DECISION MAKING: Employee is responsible for planning, organizing, allocating resources, ensuring compliance with procedures, and achieving the objectives of the function.

COMMUNICATIONS: Communication at this level is primarily internally focused and involves establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with team members, peers, directors, and executives. Provides guidance and interpretation of the organization's policies, procedures, and standards. Provides information to higher-level directors and executives.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Responsible for achieving the objectives of function within the scope of established guidelines. Employee is expected to resolve problems that arise in the normal course of the work. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and feasibility of decisions.

Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS

Audio-Visual: Color Discrimination: Fair

Audio-Visual: Depth Perception: Fair

Audio-Visual: Far Vision: Good

Audio-Visual: Hearing: Good

Audio-Visual: Near Vision: Good

Use of Hands/Feet: Both Hands: Precise Motor Function (Or Fine Manipulation)

Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: Up to 50 pounds: Up to 1/3 of time

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Independent discretion/decision making.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Makes decisions under pressure.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works with others effectively.

Mental Stress: multi-tasking, meeting deadlines, prioritizing.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.