Job Description On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is seeking Project Managers for a Healthcare Transformation project. This project is to implement and operationalize a surgical waitlist platform, including integration with Electronic Medical Records, Electronic Health Records, and eReferral solutions, which will support centralized referrals, digital prioritization of surgical cases, and optimization of operating room (OR) scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Working with key stakeholders to ensure the project is aligned and supports the department’s strategic plan, priorities, and roadmap;
• Providing a broader view of technology changes and identifies strategic and organization impacts, including how the modernized IT solution will impact the delivery of programs and services;
• Understanding the overall program and service delivery in order to manage scope and dependencies and to lead, innovate, and adapt to a changing environment;
• Leading multiple cross functional teams and stakeholders, the project manager develops, implements, and maintains plans and structures for project governance, communication and decision-making;
• Defining project objectives and selecting the most appropriate path or planning in order to satisfy project objectives;
• Developing project requirements, scope, and deliverables and ensuring the appropriate approvals are in place before proceeding with the project;
• Support evaluation and procurement processes;
• Defining, estimating, and planning project tasks, resources, timelines, and milestones;
• Developing and implementing a project management and implementation strategy;
• Developing, maintaining, executing, and monitoring project plans;
• Developing and monitoring budgets, allocations, and/or expenditures;
• Identifying, documenting, reporting, and mitigating project risks and issues;
• Performing change management practices to achieve project deliverables;
• Managing the project communication and reporting process via status reports, meetings, and other methods, as required for monitoring and accountability purposes;
• Ensuring the completion and quality of project documentation, deliverables and obtaining the necessary signoffs;
• Providing change management and transformation change expertise;
• Ensuring an operational plan is established and approved, and transition the project to the appropriate Operational team within ITSS; and
• Completing other work as required by the Province.

Project Management Activities, Including But Not Limited To

• Leading/managing transformation initiatives within the scope of the project;
• Leading change management efforts which include identifying and assessing impacts to technology for program/service delivery;
• Conducting consultations;
• Facilitating and documenting key decisions;
• Communicating with key stakeholders;
• Project charter;
• Communication plan;
• Status reports;
• Schedule and resources;
• Project plan;
• Change requests;
• Risks and issues tracking log;
• Budget and financial plan;
• Lessons learned; and
• Operational hand-off documentation;
• Project stakeholder engagement to develop, implement, and maintain structures for project governance and decision-making;
• Procurement and contractual agreements for the systems;
• Procurement management;
• Work with the business analyst and project team on the development of project requirements, scope and deliverables and ensuring the appropriate approvals are in place before proceeding with the project;
• The successful Proponent will review the current environmental state, via both documentation and information gathering and document any actions required to support implementation of the components and services; and
• Other materials as required by the Province.

Qualifications

• A minimum of seven (7) years of demonstrated experience directly related to IT Enterprise Project Management managing large-scale projects that have organization wide impacts in a Health Care organization including how the modernized IT solution will impact the delivery of programs and services;
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects that significantly impact the delivery of clinical programs and services through modernized IT solutions;
• A minimum of five (5) years leading and managing complex change initiatives in a health and service delivery environment, such as digital transformation, patient flow or system-wide process improvement;
• Recent project experience in a similar role related to one, or more of the following project areas:
• Large scale initiatives that directly impact patients and providers requiring robust change management strategies;
• System-wide initiatives related to system wide improvements or digital transformation projects related to patient flow or system optimization, care coordination, health system or service optimization;
• Projects enabling patient access to personal health information or enhancing patient engagement/experience; or
• Implementation of digital health solutions supporting transitions of care and clinician collaboration (e.g. Electronic Medical / Health Records).
• Experience working with government organizations or publicly funded health organizations;
• Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic environment, establish priorities, and meet tight deadlines; and
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills and the ability to engage and influence a diverse range of individuals and groups including executives, clinicians, technical teams, managers, and subject matter experts.

For all Categories, the following experience is considered an asset:

• Previous experience working the Government of Prince Edward Island;
• Experience working with government organizations;
• Experience with MS Azure DevOps;
• Certification in project management;
• Experience in change management.

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Job Number: 13214