Project Manager - Office of Strategy Management

Location

Newmarket, ON | Canada

Job description

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Director of Strategy, in the Office of Strategy Management (OSM), the Project Manager will be responsible for leading, coordinating and supporting a variety of strategic projects and planning activities to advance Southlake’s Strategy. The Project Manager will use project management best practices to drive key corporate initiatives in collaboration with organizational leadership. The Project Manager will interact with the Senior Leadership Team, Clinical, Operational and Physician Leaders across the organization.

Skills/Abilities/Responsibilities:

• Liaise with leadership to provide project management and process improvement for corporate initiatives aligned with Southlake’s Strategic Plan and corporate priorities
• Lead and facilitate project-related meetings, develop project reports, presentations, statistics and other related documents, as required
• Utilize and promote tools and templates to support project management best practices to support strategic projects
• Utilize and promote frameworks for project evaluation and monitoring, including indicator development
• Liaise with managers who are responsible for projects, and other hospital staff to effectively completed assignments
• Ensure project deliverables are met on time, within budget and within scope.
• Initiate and maintain communication with all project stakeholders
• Proactively identify any project risks and recommend solutions and mitigation strategies
• Evaluate and assess each project closely to identify lessons learned and best practices for implementation in future projects
• Demonstrates conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated excellence in communication, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated problem assessment skills
• Demonstrated commitment to customer service and teamwork
• Demonstrated individual leadership skills
• Ability to work off-hours and/or non-business hours, during critical times of any project implementation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Health, Public Administration or related discipline
• PMP certification required
• 5 years’ experience in Project Management required
• 5 years’ experience in Healthcare/Hospital environment required
• Demonstrated knowledge of Project Management principles and processes
• Lean certification with demonstrated ability to lead quality improvement projects and achieve results, preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge developing and implementing change management plans in the health care environment
• Systems thinker, with experience leading projects and initiatives aligned with strategic directions
• Outstanding interpersonal, influencing and communication skills to build strong relationships, gain credibility and network effectively with all levels of the organization and with external clients and partners
• Experience leading, organizing and facilitating project-related meetings, develop project reports, presentations, statistics and other related documents, as required
• Proven experience in needs assessment, analytical, problem solving and documentation skills
• Demonstrated understanding of inter-professional collaboration and education
• Proven organizational skills, and ability to handle multiple assignments and priorities
• Ability to evaluate and assess each project closely to identify lessons learned and best practices for implementation in future projects
• Ability to perform duties in a professional and courteous manner and produce high quality work while meeting deadlines and budget in accordance to Southlake Regional Health Centre standards
• Excellent analytical skills

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