Project Manager - The Health Plan - Remote

About Texas Children's Hospital

Founded in 1996, Texas Children’s Health Plan is the nation's first health maintenance organization (HMO) created just for children. We provide STAR/Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to pregnant women, teens, children and adults in Houston and surrounding areas. Currently, the Health Plan has more than 375,000 members who receive care from our network of more than 1,100 primary care physicians, 3,200 specialists, and 70 hospitals. Texas Children's Health Plan is also the largest combined STAR/CHIP Managed Care Organization in the Harris County service area.   To join our community of 14,000 dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities. You can also learn more about our amazing culture at infinitepassion.org. At Texas Children’s Hospital, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values and mission for the women and children that we serve. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment for all faculty, staff and learners throughout our organization. We believe that each member of our one amazing team provides enrichment that allows us to create a lasting legacy for future employees of this great organization. Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

Summary:

We are searching for a Project Manager -- someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will lead multiple integrated, complex project(s) with impact across TCHP. This is a position that will focus on business operations projects.

 

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Responsibilities :

• Responsible for adherence to the Project Governance guidelines, including the approvals processes and project and reporting structures. Establishes project specific governance and conducts Steering and Work team meetings
• Determines staff resource needs for analysts, programmers, vendors, user personnel, consultants, and equipment by assessing the size, duration, scope, and complexity of the project
• Formulates, administers, and maintains the detailed Project Plan, using the Project Management tool, which will include all required activities, tasks, risks, issues, and resources requirements, leading to a successful and timely implementation. Provides regular project status reports as required
• Facilitates, communicates, listens, and works with project team members and other Project Managers to continuously update the detailed project plan in addition to the risk and issues plan
• Ensures documentation (i.e., change control, project plans, test plans, policies and procedures, disaster recovery) is complete, accurate, acceptable, and in accordance with organizational standards and policies
• Plans and executes smooth transition of responsibilities to support staff at the completion of the project
• Manages three important variables pertaining to projects: Cost, scope, and time
• Provides leadership to staff or team member(s) to help achieve the goals of the project
• Interacts with staff and leadership to understand the business need
• Develops and reports appropriate project metrics
• Analyzes project standards, methodologies, and impacts
• Determines, analyzes, and formulates current practices, user needs, workflow processes, issues, and potential solutions on projects
• Appraises alternative systems approaches for workability and economic feasibility
• Coordinates activities and information dissemination with committees, TCHP management, and other necessary participants
• Serves as representative/participating member of designated committees
• Provides the goals, problems, and solutions to/with TCHP Management
• Recommends solutions and provides advice on the implementation of the solution
• Uses facilitation and interpersonal skills to manage conflicts within the project team and escalate and involve Supervisor where appropriate

Qualifications:

• Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including any booster dose(s) of the COVID-19 vaccine recommended by the Centers for Disease Control when eligible, is required for all employees at Texas Children’s unless approved for a medical or religious exemption
• Bachelor's Degree
• 4 years’ experience in business, project, finance, and/or healthcare experience
• A Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Finance, Business Administration, Biology or other business, healthcare or science
  related field can be substituted for two (2) years of the experience requiremen
• PMP preferred

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