Certified Project Manager

Job description

Inova Health is looking for a dedicated Certified Project Manager to join the Performance Improvement team. This role is Full-time working Monday to Friday, HYBRID.
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits:
• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules.

Certified Project Manager Job Responsibilities:
• Communicates new ideas and challenges ongoing assumptions for program expansion or new program development opportunities.
• Monitors general healthcare trends and issues specific to assigned responsibilities and ties relevant findings to business plans.
• Coordinates and supervises the full life cycle of program and project management activities for assigned programs and projects, from initiation through closure, following best practices and PMO-defined project management methodologies.
• Coordinates with project staff to ensure completion consistent with established timetables and objectives.
• Identifies and/ makes recommendations to improve Inova's Project Management Framework.
• Supports organizational change management activities aimed at gaining buy-in, acceptance, and support of enterprise project management standards.
• Establishes, implements, and tracks performance metrics for all projects and maintains centralized accountability for project portfolio management.
• Apprises leadership of project status, issues, and concerns and provides strategic and tactical advice on program and project planning and execution.
• Supports the assessment of current organizational project management capabilities that will serve as an initial maturity benchmarking effort and develops a conceptual roadmap that identifies the areas, timing, targets, and high-level schedule for agreed-upon improvements in project management practices.
• Facilitates communication, coaching, and training of project management standards and project scope to staff while ensuring appropriate resources are assigned to project activities.
• Assists in the standardization of program and project management tools, processes, and policies, by industry best practices and organizational lessons learned.

Minimum Requirements:
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Engineering or related field or additional 4 years of equivalent work experience.
• Experience : 5 years of related experience in managing projects
• Certifications : PMP - Project Management Professional (within 6 months of hire)

Preferred Qualifications:
• PMP Certification upon start
• Healthcare management background ideally in PM, Operations, or Consulting
• Direct project management experience