Location:
- Avera Health
Worker Type:
- Regular
Work Shift:
- Primarily days with possible weekends/evenings/holidays (United States of America)
- Position Highlights
- You Belong at Avera
- Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.
- A Brief Overview
- Leads a team of project management professionals to ensure the delivery of Avera wide programs and projects.
The Portfolio Manager is responsible to work with senior leaders, management and staff in all departments across the system to oversee project commencement, prioritization, and execution. This includes project resource planning; continuous monitoring and reporting on project, program and portfolio status; manage cross project dependencies; alignment of projects to organizational priorities and strategic roadmap, including the assessment and understanding of the budget and resource impacts. The role of Manager provides leadership, oversight, decision-support for programs and projects within the portfolio. A successful leader partners with stakeholders to analyze, redefine, and monitor activities to ensure maximum efficiency in formulating and implementing projects that deliver on the intended business outcomes and meet Avera's strategy and goals, as well as obtaining feedback to ensure the project efforts meet customer expectations for time, cost and performance.
- What you will do
- + Develops efficiencies across all Organizational Excellence functions through creation of reporting practices, capacity management framework, and other cross-functional department needs.
Partners with leaders across all Avera business units to work through high level project issues and escalations. + Partners with high project volume stakeholder groups to develop and manage efficiencies and communications within their programs. + Collaborates with Organizational Excellence teams, primarily Intake & Prioritization, Project Delivery, and other senior leaders or executives on the priorities and performance of the portfolio. + Provides leadership, oversight, and technical direction to Project Consultants and Program Managers of the Organizational Excellence team. + Collaborates with Organizational Excellence leadership team to develop and implement department strategy. Oversees and is accountable for the successful completion of team's projects and initiatives. + Develops and manages metrics and other key performance indicators for department programs and portfolios. + Demonstrate excellent communication skills and experience with the ability to influence all levels of the organization including, senior and executive level leaders, operational and IT leaders, vendors and project team members through verbal, written, formal presentations, reports, and ability to adapt communications, style, and meetings as appropriate for each stakeholder level. + Ability to lead multiple team members in complex and large-scale system wide projects with complex scope or impact while also successfully managing concurrent medium complex projects with minimal oversight or disruption to stakeholders. + Manage and mentor others in the project management methodology including: project scope, developing work breakdown structures, managing project schedules, resources, and risk, complex communication and stakeholder management. + Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, developing, training, and retaining employees; planning, assigning, and leading work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
- Essential Qualifications
- The individual must be able to work the hours specified.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.
Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:
- + 4-6 years experience as a Senior or Lead Project Manager, Program Manager or Senior Principal Project Manager.
+ 10+ years OR experience directing work and overseeing project managers, or multiple complex scale projects/programs requiring interaction and involvement of senior leaders in the organization. + 1-3 years Experience leading multiple teams and incorporating value to the organization through the application of the PMBOK® framework.
Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:
- + Bachelor's + Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI) Upon Hire + Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI) Upon Hire
- Expectations and Standards
- + Commitment to the daily application of Avera's mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
+ Promote Avera's values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship. + Uphold Avera's standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity. + Maintain confidentiality. + Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment. + Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.
- Benefits You Need & Then Some
- Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees.
We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future. + PTO available day 1 for eligible hires. + Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement + Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship _Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to_ _talent@avera.org_ _._ At Avera, the way you are treated as an employee translates into the compassionate care you deliver to patients and team members. Because we consider health care a ministry, you can live out your faith, uphold the dignity and respect of all persons while not compromising high-quality services. Join us in making a positive impact on moving health forward.
The policy of Avera to provide opportunities for all qualified employees or applicants without regard to disability and to provide reasonable accommodations for all employees or applicants who may be disabled. Avera is committed to ensuring compliance in accordance with the Americans with Disability Act. For assistance, please contact HR Now at 605-504-4444.
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