Graduate Medical Education Project Manager III

Kaiser Permanente

$91K — $118K *
Hospitals & Medical Centers
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or 6 years of project management experience.
  • 3 years of direct project management experience is also acceptable with a degree.
  • Proven ability to lead and execute complex projects.
  • Strong understanding of healthcare industry operations, especially GME.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

  • Translate research and education goals into actionable project plans.
  • Lead development of residency and fellowship programs from planning to launch.
  • Provide leadership and support for Graduate Medical Education (GME) operations.
  • Oversee project timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Establish and manage project structures, including risk management and stakeholder alignment.

Benefits

  • Flexible work location options, balancing on-site and remote work.
  • Supportive environment for professional development and mentoring.
  • Emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion in workplace culture.
  • Access to comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs.
Full Job Description
**Candidate must sit in the Southern California region as this person will go onsite occasionally
The successful candidate in this role will:
  • Translate research and education priorities into defined projects, leading execution of initiatives related to faculty development, scholarly activity infrastructure, and regional programming
  • Develop and execute projects supporting new residency and fellowship program development, including planning, application readiness, and program launch activities
  • Provide project leadership for GME operations as backup support, maintaining continuity of operational priorities, timelines, and deliverables
  • Lead and support regional GME projects across core domains(operations, accreditation, finance, HR, education, and research), driving alignment and execution across programs
  • Establish project structure and oversight, including scope, timelines, deliverables, stakeholder alignment, and risk management across all assigned initiatives
Job Summary:
Manages projects of small-to-medium size, or components of a larger project, from initiation to close-out. Leads the work of project team members by requesting and coordinating internal and/or external resources. Monitors and identifies project risks, issues, and trigger events. Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of project stakeholders. Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels, ensures service level agreements are met, and supports the contract negotiations with vendors.

Essential Responsibilities:
  • Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
  • Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
  • Manages projects of small-to-medium size, or components of a larger project from initiation to close-out. Develops, analyzes, and executes project plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast. Manages project financials for medium size projects. Monitors project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) against plan and provides input and justification for costs and budget impact. Manages project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project. Allocates resources, establishes schedules, and makes task assignments.
  • Leads the work of project team members. Requests and coordinates internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands. Promotes project vision and objectives with project team. Provides guidance and feedback to team members.
  • Monitors and identifies project risks, issues, and trigger events by executing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate.
  • Monitors adherence of project activities to policies and procedures by ensuring project plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.
  • Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse project stakeholders by building rapport with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and management; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders. Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders. Ensures all appropriate stakeholders are represented and included. Provides insight to key stakeholders and project sponsors by developing project goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for project delivery. Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering presentations, and providing reports to stakeholders.
  • Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. Supports the contract negotiation process with vendors and reviews project invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)
  • Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
  • Attention to Detail
  • Business Knowledge
  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Cross-Group Collaboration
  • Decision Making
  • Dependability
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
  • Drives Results
  • Facilitation Skills
  • Health Care Industry
  • Influencing Others
  • Integrity
  • Learning Agility
  • Organizational Savvy
  • Problem Solving
  • Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
  • Teamwork
  • Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)
  • Applied Data Analysis
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Financial Acumen
  • Product Development Life Cycle
  • Project Management Tools
  • Quality Assurance Process
  • Risk Assessment
  • Service Focus

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum three (3) years experience in project management or a directly related field OR Minimum six (6) years experience in project management or a directly related field.
Preferred Qualifications:

Primary Location: California,Pasadena,Walnut Center - Regional Offices
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: Regional Offices - Pasadena - Specialties-Medical(Admin) - 0806
Pay Range: $91700 - $118580 / year Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Travel: No
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

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