Project Manager - Health Initiatives

Summary

Remote positions with our team are currently available for candidates located in CO, TX, WI, MN, AZ, CA, IL, FL, VA, HI, OK and NY.

Position Summary
Join Health Initiatives at National Jewish Health to be part of a team that makes a difference in the lives of thousands of people across the country! The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring successful and timely completion of projects related to core products and services for Health Initiatives (HI) programs. Having significant expertise in technology-based solutions, the project manager oversees all business and technical development projects, establishes technology requirements and timelines for implementing solutions, working closely with IST and coordinating other product development resources.

Essential Duties

1. Project manages the development of products, programs and services, providing effective project communication, documentation, and timelines with internal and external stakeholders. Ensures projects meet functional requirements and are completed on time and within budget.
2. Maintains the master list of projects and product roadmap for future development. Facilitates visioning meetings and discussions within HI and with IST to ensure technology solutions evolve and respond to client needs. Coordinates and integrates multiple high priority activities, including conflict resolution related to multiple projects with competing needs.
3. Develops technical requirements for new development and existing product enhancements to meet the needs of clients, participants, and HI staff. Seeks stakeholder input as to need, functionality, and user interface design.
4. Manages standard scope of work documents related to product development and implementation, including determination of schedules and freeze dates for obtaining required input from stakeholders.
5. Guides software team in their design process, including ensuring that user experience and user interface elements are carefully designed, quality assurance tested, and refined based on user acceptance testing.  
6. Documents and drives continuous improvement of all HI systems. Identifies opportunities for improvement and usability, working with stakeholders to implement changes.  Develops business case to solve technical issues facing HI, including comparisons with best practices in industry.
7. Implements changes to software products with administrative privileges to meet business needs and client requests, including setting up new clients and refining services for existing clients.
8. Manages onboarding of eReferral systems in coordination with IST and stakeholders.

Other Duties
None

Competencies

1. Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health. 
2. Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
3. Creativity and Innovation: Applies creative problem-solving skills to develop solutions to problems; recognizes and demonstrates the value in taking “smart” risks and learning from mistakes; develops multiple alternatives and understands the feasibility of each; effectively shares and implements his/her ideas. Generates innovative solutions in work situations; tries different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.
4. Collaboration/Teamwork: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees within and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treats others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others. 
5. Drive for Results: Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement. 
6. Impact and Influence: Using appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved. Taking advantage of opportunities to make a difference and have an impact. When used well, the intended outcome of this competency is the creation of goodwill, trust, and respect while motivating people to want to follow you even when they don’t have to.
7. Informing and Communicating: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
8. Project Management: Effectively managing one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently. Effectively manages project(s) by appropriately focusing attention on the critical few priorities; effectively creates and executes against project timelines based on priorities, resource availability, and other project requirements (i.e., budget); effectively evaluates planned approaches, determines feasibility, and makes adjustments when needed.

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility
None

Travel
None

Core Values

1. Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
2. Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
3. Be well groomed, appropriately for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.
4. Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes NetLearning by due date annually.
5. Fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the institution.
6. Adheres to safe working practices and at all times follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures. 
7. Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.
8. Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Education: Bachelor’s degree in a business management, project management, software design or related degree required.
2. Work Experience: A minimum of four (4) years recent and related work experience in a service delivery field required. Health care experience preferred.
3. Special Training, Certification or Licensure: PMP certification preferred.

Salary Range: $73,000 - $90,000

Benefits
At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset.

With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

• Medical Plans, Dental Plans and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plan
• FSA and HSA
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Voluntary Benefits, like Accident Insurance, Critical Care and Hospital Indemnity
• Sick and Vacation Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program
• Legal Plan