Project Manager-Children’s Hospital-Salaried

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Company: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Location: Nashville, TN

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Project Manager-Salaried

Children’s Hospital

Performance Management and Improvement


Your Role:
Performs project management support and analysis under occasional guidance. Works with customers to understand and analyze operational procedures, requirements, processes and/or other needs to bring about successful completion of the project.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Plans, develops, leads and executes the project in order to meet established goals, objectives and timelines.
  • Provides professional and/or technical leadership in the execution of day to day project activities.
  • Communicates within and across area(s) to maximize information sharing around progress, needs, interdependencies and/or accomplishments.
  • Facilitates the identification of gaps in service level/processes to identify potential areas for improvement.
  • The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.


Position Qualifications:

Required:
  • Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) and 3 years relevant experience

Preferred:
  • Project Management experience in hospital environment
  • Project Management and/or Quality certification

Position Shift:
  • Salaried, 40 hrs minimum weekly
  • Business hours with some flexibility with schedule based on dept needs

Click Here To View The VUMC Promise of Discovery

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity — of culture, thinking, learning and leading — is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.


VUMC Recent Accomplishments

Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:

  • US News & World Report:     #1 Hospital in Tennessee, #1 Health Care Provider in Nashville, #1 Audiology (Bill Wilkerson Center), 9 adult and 9 pediatric clinical specialties ranked among the nation’s best, #15 Education and Training

  • Truven Health Analytics:     among the top 100 hospitals in the US

  • Becker’s Hospital Review:     one of the “100 Greatest Hospitals in America”

  • The Leapfrog Group:     grade “A” in Hospital Safety Score

  • National Institutes of Health:     among the top 10 grant awardees for medical research in the US

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science:     12 faculty members elected fellows in 2014

  • Magnet Recognition Program:     Vanderbilt nurses are the only group honored in Middle Tennessee

  • Nashville Business Journal:     Middle Tennessee’s healthiest employer

  • American Hospital Association:     among the 100 “Most Wired” medical systems in the US
  • CA

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) and 3 years relevant experience

Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration (LCR):


Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:

  • Sedentary category requiring exertion up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and uses negligible amounts of force to move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.


Movement

  • Occasional: Standing: Remaining on one’s feet without moving.
  • Occasional: Walking: Moving about on foot.
  • Occasional: Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another
  • Occasional: Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
  • Occasional: Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or toward.
  • Occasional: Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
  • Frequent: Sitting: Remaining in seated position
  • Frequent: Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.
  • Frequent: Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.
  • Frequent: Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.


Sensory

  • Continuous: Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.
  • Continuous: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information
  • Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.
  • Continuous: Smell: Ability to detect and identify odors.


Environmental Conditions

  • Occasional: Chemicals and Gasses: Medications, cleaning chemicals, oxygen, other medical gases used in work area.