UNC Health Care

Project Manager Operations

UNC Health Care$79K — $114K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  • 5 years of project management experience
  • 2 years in a supervisory or leadership role
  • Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to handle confidential information with discretion

Responsibilities

  • Manage system-wide projects ensuring alignment with UNC Health's goals
  • Create and maintain a customer-focused work environment
  • Analyze and resolve complex scheduling issues
  • Develop and implement policies for operational efficiency
  • Drive process improvements with minimal disruption to patient care

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility
  • Inclusivity in the workplace
  • Commitment to community health improvement
  • Support for applicants with disabilities
  • Focus on employee performance and development
Full Job Description
Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

Summary:
UNC Health's Care Access and Service Integration team is seeking an Operational Project Man-ager to support the Guided Scheduling initiative, focused on improving access to care for pa-tients. The HCS Operational Project Manager will lead system-wide projects focused on specialty scheduling optimization, including facilitating cross-entity workgroups to design new scheduling features in Epic and MyChart, like decision trees and online scheduling. An ideal candidate has strong presentation and interpersonal skills, navigating conversations with physicians, operation-al leaders and schedulers and can synthesize technical details to be shared and discussed with a wider audience.

Responsibilities:
1. Confidentiality - Handles confidential information with sensitivity and discretion in accordance with Privacy & Health Care System requirements.
2. Customer Focus - Creates and maintains a customer focused work environment that attracts and retains high caliber employees. Coaches and mentors employees in such a way as to obtain superior organizational engagement and performance. Monitors and evaluates performance and strives to ensure that all employees are treated fairly with compassion and respect.
3. HCS Operational Project Management - Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of system-wide projects ensuring consistency with UNC Health Care's strategy, commitments and goals. Develops project plans, goals, and budgets identifies resources needed, develops schedules and methods for measuring results while maintaining optimum working relationships with all UNCH facilities.
4. Problem Solving - Analyzes and resolves complex issues, develops policies & procedures that maximize efficiency necessary to carry out co-locations and integrations. Ensure all proper internal controls are in place to safeguard assets of the system and satisfy internal and external regulatory requirements. Develops and monitors operating and capital budget.
5. Process Improvement - Works with peers to identify and analyze opportunities for improvement. Implements processes to identify, implement, and ensure standardization decisions occur with minimal disruption to patient care or administrative activities and creating win-win solutions.

Other Information

Other information:
Education Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate discipline.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
• No licensure or certification required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
• Five (5) years of project management experience of which 2 years of experience must be in a supervisory, management or leadership role.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
• Accountability Ability to bring project to successful completion on time and within budget through political sensitivity.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: Care Access - Svc Integration

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $38.17 - $54.88 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Remote

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

About UNC Health Care

UNC Health Care is a not-for-profit integrated health care system owned by the state of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. Originally established November 1, 1998, by N.C.G.S. 116-37, UNC Health Care currently comprises UNC Hospitals and its provider network, the clinical programs of the UNC School of Medicine, and eleven affiliate hospitals and hospital systems across the state.
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1952

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