Quality Project Manager

Join one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers, UChicago Medicine, as a Quality Project Manager. This position is based on-site at Hyde Park, with remote flexibility. Some travel to alternate site locations around Chicagoland will be required. 

In this role, the Quality Project Manager – is responsible for facilitating successful project delivery including the planning, scheduling, execution, and closing of all assigned projects within established budget and schedule. Utilizing Project Management (PM) methodologies, while managing all project team members (organizational resources and engaged third party vendors/consultants) to deliver solutions according to project scope and goals. 

Essential Job Functions   

• Oversees the planning, design, implementation, and completion of small to medium projects with support from supervisor.

• Executes project plan and provides daily support for moving the project forward on large strategic initiatives with support from supervisor.

• Uses PDSA framework to guide projects.

• In partnership with team members, facilitates the use of standard QI and PI tools.

• Identifies areas where there is a need to distinguish between quality improvement and research, and the potential intersections

• Collaborate with clinical leads and team members to develop meeting agendas

• Accurately capture and document key discussions, decisions, and action items

• Lead and facilitate project meetings, employing basic facilitation skills (e.g. encouraging participation, using process checks).

• Collaborate with data teams within UCM to ensure data and analytics needs of assigned projects are satisfied and garner the most effective clinical monitors and insight to drive improvement, while allowing for efficient analytics processes.

• Identify data collection and analysis needs as appropriate when relevant data does not exist electronically.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in health care, engineering, or performance improvement field or equivalent.

• Possess a minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in healthcare, performance improvement, project management, or equivalent.  

• Experience facilitating groups with many different stakeholders 

• Knowledge of performance improvement techniques and methodologies. 

• must be able to work autonomously in a sometimes ambiguous and changing environment

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in public health, health care administration, business administration, nursing, or another health care-related field preferred.

• Minimum of 1-2 years’ Performance Improvement experience in Hospital, or large Health System preferred.

• Experience with clinical terminology preferred.

   

Position Details:

• Job Type/FTE: Full Time 
• Shift: Days
• Job Location: Hyde Park 
• Unit/Department: Project Management Office  
• CBA Code: Non-Union