- Develops Self & Others: Practices self-development; adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; seeks, listens, and responds to performance feedback; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; adapts to and learns from change, difficulties, and constructive evaluations. Is accountable for actions and strives for self-improvement.Invests in team members and managers; proactively provides information, resources, advice, and expertise; promotes learning; provides constructive feedback; supports team collaboration; influences others through technical explanations and examples.
- Autonomy/Authority/Decision Making/Influence: Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying project management experience and teaming with project sponsors/leaders; supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensures team follows all procedures and policies; coordinates and assigns resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborates to make effective business decisions; solves complex problems; escalates high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities. Understands the impact of personal contribution to KPNW’s success through project results. Able to operate in an environment with some levels of ambiguity.
- Project Management: Manages large-scale projects from initiation to close-out. Develops, analyzes, and manages complex project plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast. Identifies leverage points for greatest impact. Manages and monitors project financials for large projects. Monitors overall project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, while meeting quality expectations) against plan, ensuring measurement of business benefits and outcomes, and makes adjustments, as needed. Identifies project needs related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) and secures team resources to provide project support. Drives allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure established project management practices are in place including thorough documentation of work. Practices active listening and asks effective clarifying questions. Presents findings in a clear, concise and usable format.
- Leading Others: Promotes project vision and objectives with project team. Leads the work of project team members; successfully brings others along to desired outcomes. Provides clear direction for team members; holds team members accountable for completing goals. Requests and coordinates internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands. Delivers performance feedback to team members’ supervisors.
- Project Risk & Issue Mitigation: Identifies, understands, accounts for, and proactively monitors project risks and issues; Develops mitigation plans and strategies; resolves or escalates risks or issues, as appropriate.
- Compliance: 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.
- Stakeholder Management: Seeks to understand stakeholder business, role, environment and sensitivities. Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse project stakeholders by building rapport with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and senior management; and clarifies accountability and authority across stakeholders. Identifies and works closely with stakeholders, ensuring all appropriate stakeholders are represented and included. Partners with key stakeholders and project sponsors and jointly develops project goals, sets the prioritization of deliverables, discusses 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 various senior audiences.
THIS POSTING REPRESENTS TWO POSITIONS
Demonstrates Project Management competency through managing and co-leading large, complex, cross functional, strategic projects for KPNW. Guides highly visible, sensitive and multi-faceted projects including planning, analytics, communication, risk analysis, quality assurance, team and vendor management, and cost efficiency. Is committed to project success and accountable for solving problems. Leads implementation project solutions partnering with department teams. Identifies and resolves issues proactively. Ensures assigned projects are delivered within scope, schedule, budget and achieves project quality expectations.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in project management or a directly related field
- Minimum one (1) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
- Bachelor’s degree OR four (4) years of experience in a directly related field.
- High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.
- N/A
- Advanced relationship management and collaboration skills and ability to adapt to differing leadership styles
- Advanced meeting facilitation, conflict management and negotiation skills
- Assertive, objective and be able to confront clients/stakeholders with difficult issues
- A degree of creativity and latitude is expected to add value to job accomplishments
- One (1) year of healthcare experience
- Four (4) years of project management experience
- Two (2) years of experience implementing large or complex projects
- Two (2) years of data analytics experience
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
Education
License, Certification, Registration
Additional Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Completion of a project management educational training, certification program or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree from an accredited college or university
- Familiarity with working in a unionized environment
PrimaryLocation : Oregon,Portland,Kaiser Permanente Building 500 NE Multnomah St.
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 8:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 5:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : Salaried, Non-Union, Exempt
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Consulting Services / Project/Program Management (Non IT)
Department : Strategic Implementation Office
Travel : Yes, 50 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, including but not limited to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.
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