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Job Description

The Project Manager is responsible for managing projects and acting as the project leader/facilitator, encouraging inter-departmental teamwork, provides education, evaluates optional solutions, ensures follow-through and adherence to timelines, and effectively achieves agreed upon project goals.

Duties and Responsibilities:

+ Manages and takes ownership for the full scope of the implementation of assigned projects throughout the project life cycle using accepted project management principles.

+ Assists in defining, developing and implementing plans for improving efficiency and effectiveness.

+ Participates in the best standard methodology development, testing and training as needed.

+ Conducts meetings with staff, other departments and key collaborators to ensure consensus for the project.

+ Ensures smooth transition from project and solution definition to project delivery.

+ Documents and Analyzes business flows and recommends change.

+ Works with interdisciplinary departments on process change activities and to implement strategies to resolve system issues.

+ Assumes ownership of customer relationships and follows issues through to closure.

+ Manages documents for implementation, project schedule, weekly status reports.

+ Completes focused reviews and special reports as requested.

+ Prepares agendas for meetings, facilitates meeting and communicates next steps clearly and accurately to collaborators. Documents items to completion.

+ Leads proactive change management initiatives to facilitate and support the efficacy of projects, providing clear messaging for the change benefit and helping to improve the coalition for change.

+ Presents information in group forums to leadership and collaborators on project status, progress, plan for completion.

+ Gathers and analyzes data for accuracy and draws meaningful conclusions relevant to the project. Creates clear visuals that communicate and engage team in the data.

Qualifications

Education:

High school diploma required. Associate degree/College diploma or Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Business or Technical field preferred.

Experience:

Three (3) years of Project Management experience or completion of Cedar-Sinai recognized project management course within first year of employment required.

Two (2) years of experience in Healthcare Management or supervisory leadership experience required.

About Us

Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.

About the Team

With a growing number of primary urgent and specialty care locations across Southern California, Cedars-Sinai’s medical network serves people near where they live. Delivering coordinated, compassionate healthcare you can join our network of clinicians and physicians to improve the healthcare people throughout Los Angeles and beyond.

**Req ID** : 13424

**Working Title** : Project Manager - Practice Transformation

**Department** : Practice Transformation

**Business Entity** : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

**Job Category** : Administrative

**Job Specialty** : Administrative

**Overtime Status** : EXEMPT

**Primary Shift** : Day

**Shift Duration** : 8 hour

**Base Pay** : $42.16 - $65.35

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.