Job Summary

Assemble project team, establish authority as project manager, gain consensus, and develop and effectively communicate a clear understanding of the project scope, objectives, mandates, timeframe, budget, and other project requirements. Actively participates in and champions the establishment, continual improvement, and adoption of project management and other best practices through the IT PMO. Create and support an environment of collaboration and mutual support between the functional IT teams and the IT PMO.

Job Duties

• Assemble project team, establish authority as project manager, gain consensus, and develop and effectively communicate a clear understanding of the project scope, objectives, mandates, timeframe, budget and other project requirements.
• Ensure project requirements, constraints, and assumptions are defined, documented, and effectively communicated in order to establish the project deliverables using requirements gathering techniques.
• Ensure realistic labor and cost estimates are applied to project activities and tasks in support of project plan and schedule development.
• Collects status information regularly from the project team and maintains visibility to overall project status for stakeholders and IT leadership.
• Establishes and executes on a communications plan meeting the needs of the project, including status meetings, status reports, change management, and issue escalation.
• Creates agendas, ensures the capture of minutes, and conducts meetings in an effective and efficient manner.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques so as to keep the project plan accurate and reflective of authorized project changes Maintains, documents, and communicates scope and schedule variances to plan to leadership as appropriate and per the communications plan.
• Manage project risks through facilitating pro-active risk identification and management and ensuring appropriate contingency plans are developed and implemented to minimize the probability of and impact to the project.
• Organize, manage, and direct project team tasks to assure proper application of project management standards, best practices, tools, and methodologies in project work.
• Engages and effectively communicates in a timely fashion with stakeholders, including project sponsors, project team members, IT functional management, and IT leadership on all project tasks and deliverables, including requirements, scope, plans, staffing, budget, risks, issues, schedules, and status.
• Ensures timely and accurate collection of labor hours related to the project.
• Participate in and provide guidance related to vendor management associated to assigned projects including but is not limited to, contract negotiations, invoicing issues lists and new product evaluations.

Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

*Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and degree obtained (Associate’s Degree = 2 years; Bachelor’s Degree = 4 years).

Position Details

• Work Hours: 8:00AM - 4:30PM
• Must be a commutable same day drive as travel will be required within the Geisinger footprint for on-site go lives and/or mandatory on-site meetings.
• PMP certification preferred

Employee Value Proposition: Opportunity to be involved with managing transformational projects at Geisinger within a great team environment.

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 3 years-Managing people, processes, or projects (Required), Minimum of 5 years-Relevant experience* (Required)

Skills

Information Technology Project Management; IT Project Planning And Organization; IT Project Control And Reporting; Critical Thinking; Working Independently; Interpersonal Communication

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Geisinger values who you are, where you are from, and where you are going. We seek out people of various backgrounds and cultures with unique abilities, non-traditional career paths and ambitious aspirations. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status. Read more about Our Commitment to Inclusive Recruiting.

Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.

EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.

LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.

INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.