University of Michigan

Project Senior Manager - Community Practice Operations

University of Michigan$90K — $120K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in healthcare or business administration or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of clinical operations experience.
  • Experience collaborating with multiple healthcare stakeholders.
  • Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Experience in budget monitoring and financial coordination.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage complex operational projects across Radiation Oncology practices.
  • Develop project charters and manage timelines, milestones, and communication plans.
  • Drive initiatives for clinical workflow optimization and operational efficiency.
  • Collaborate with finance and coding teams on revenue cycle improvement projects.
  • Coordinate technology implementation and equipment replacement with clinical teams and vendors.
  • Engage stakeholders to build consensus among physicians and operational leaders.
  • Track project progress, mitigating risks to achieve timely objectives.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work mode flexibility is available.
  • Support for budget planning and financial stewardship activities.
  • Collaboration with interdisciplinary teams including finance and clinical operations.
  • Opportunity to influence and shape operational strategies across the network.
  • Access to ongoing professional development and change management initiatives.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

The Project Manager Senior provides project management and operational leadership for the University of Michigan Radiation Oncology Community Practice Network. This role is responsible for leading strategic and operational initiatives that improve clinical operations, optimize revenue cycle performance, support technology and equipment implementation, and enhance the patient and provider experience across a geographically distributed network of practices.

Approximately 60% of this role is dedicated to project management activities, including the planning, execution, implementation, and monitoring of complex operational projects. Projects include clinical workflow redesign, billing and revenue cycle optimization, equipment replacement and upgrades, Radiation Oncology specific system upgrades, clinical workflow standardization across sites, process improvement initiatives, clinical program implementation and other strategic departmental priorities.

The remaining 40% of effort is dedicated to administrative management and operational support of the community practice network, including coordination with clinical and administrative leaders, physician coverage planning, performance monitoring, and operational issue resolution.

This role serves as a key liaison between academic leadership, community site leaders, joint venture partners, and cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, high-quality clinical operations across the network.

Responsibilities*

Primary Project Management Responsibilities
  • Lead complex operational projects across multiple Radiation Oncology practice sites, ensuring alignment with departmental and organizational priorities.
  • Develop project charters, timelines, milestones, communication plans, risk assessments, and implementation strategies.
  • Manage initiatives related to clinical workflow optimization, patient access, operational efficiency, and quality improvement.
  • Partner in billing and revenue cycle improvement projects in collaboration with finance, coding, compliance, and operational stakeholders.
  • Coordinate equipment replacement, technology implementation, and system upgrade projects, including collaboration with vendors, IT, physics, faculty, facilities, and clinical teams.
  • Facilitate stakeholder engagement and consensus-building among physicians, administrators, and operational leaders.
  • Monitor project progress, identify barriers, mitigate risks, and ensure timely achievement of project objectives.
  • Develop and maintain project dashboards, metrics, and executive-level reporting.
  • Lead change management efforts including communication planning, training coordination, and adoption monitoring.
  • Identify opportunities for operational improvement and proactively develop solutions to address inefficiencies.

Administrative and Operational Leadership Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with site based clinical and administrative leaders; remain informed of local practice activities, needs, and challenges.
  • Manage physician coverage requests and coordinate clinical practice coverage across community sites to ensure continuity of care and operational stability.
  • Partner with community practice leaders to identify operational risks and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Establish, monitor, and report on operational performance metrics and key performance indicators.
  • Collaborate with clinical leadership to ensure programs align with evidence-based care standards and operational best practices.
  • Partner with finance teams to support budget planning, monitoring, and financial stewardship activities.
  • Support faculty credentialing, payer enrollment, and other operational initiatives as needed.
  • Serve as a liaison among physicians, administrators, operational teams, and external partners regarding community practice priorities and initiatives.
  • Collaborate with cross functional partners including clinical operations, IT, finance, physics, revenue cycle, compliance, and administrative teams.

Required Qualifications*
  • Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 4 + years of clinical operations experience.
  • Demonstrated experience working across multiple stakeholders and departments in complex healthcare environments.
  • Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with budget monitoring and financial coordination in a healthcare setting.

Desired Qualifications*
  • Radiation Oncology clinical operations experience strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with performance metrics, quality improvement, and change management methodologies.
  • Experience working with joint venture or partner organizations.

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes .

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.

Job Detail

Job Opening ID

279020

Working Title

Project Senior Manager - Community Practice Operations

Job Title

Project Senior Manager

Work Location

Ann Arbor Campus

Ann Arbor, MI

Modes of Work

Hybrid

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

FLSA Status

Exempt

Organizational Group

Medical School

Department

MM Radiation Oncology - AA

Posting Begin/End Date

6/17/2026 - 6/24/2026

Career Interest

Administration

About University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan system. The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 in Detroit, as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, 20 years before the territory became a state. The school moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres (16 ha) of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university campus has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 34 million gross square feet (781 acres or 3.16 km²), and has two satellite campuses located in Flint and Dearborn. The University of Michigan is a founding member of the Association of American Universities.
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