APPLICATION(S) PROJECT MANAGER

Company: South Central Health System
Location: Laurel
Posted on: October 31, 2024

Job Description:

Job Description: Application(s) Project Manager

Department: EPIC

Summary

The Application(s) Project Manager provides additional coordination and communication, overseeing implementation and maintenance for assigned applications, application areas, or specialized teams.

Professional Responsibilities:

• Maintaining scope, schedule, and quality in their specific application area or team.
• Setting clear expectations for team members, including defining what they should do at each phase of a given project.
• Working closely with the project director and other project managers to coordinate activities.
• Ensuring that non-Epic stakeholders are engaged in the project.
• Advising and coaching team members by providing guidance on issues, key success factors, and lessons learned.
• Sharing with team members the positive effects of innovation and system capabilities.
• Reinforcing the importance of department initiatives and together with executives and the project director, provide consistent communication to the team.
• Organizing resources within the organization.
• Motivating and showing appreciation for the team.
• Appropriately matching team member skills to team responsibilities.
• Managing from an organizational perspective while attending to detailed tasks.
• Assisting as a support contact for their area Identifying and troubleshooting issues.
• Guiding workflow design, building and testing the system, and analyzing other technical issues associated with Epic (Wisconsin) software.
• Serving as a liaison between organizational needs and Epic (Wisconsin) staff.
• Maintaining regular communication with Epic (Wisconsin) representatives.
• Working with Epic (Wisconsin) representatives and organization stakeholders to ensure the system meets the organization's business needs including deliverables and timelines.
• Developing an understanding of operational needs to set the direction for the organization's workflows.
• Participating in training and working with end users.
• Reviewing the status of projects and issues on an ongoing basis with leadership.
• Holding weekly communications with team members to discuss the status of deliverables, shared issues, end user concerns, budget, and upcoming milestones.
• Owning integrated efforts that span multiple applications such as BCA, Cutover, HODs, etc. Required Skills/Abilities:
  • Demonstrating flexibility with respect to changing end user business needs.
    • The ability and willingness to see things in an open minded way and examine an idea or concept from as many angles as possible.
    • The ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are completed in an accurate, efficient, and timely manner.
    • The ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks, and to help others.
    • The ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with project leadership and subject matter experts.
    • The ability and willingness to learn new software and systems.
    • Listening attentively to ensure that the intended message has been accurately received, holding responses until the person has finished making his/her point, and repeating information to ensure accuracy.
    • Seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence.
    • The ability to gain trust and establish effective relationships with counterparts.
    • The ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures.
      
      Education and Experience:
      • Degree/certification in operational or clinical area of origin.
      • Prior project management experience, preferred.
      • Attain assigned EPIC (WISCONSIN) Certification(s) within 90 days of employment.

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