Senior Clinical IT Project Manager

UT Health San Antonio is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities and is designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. With missions of teaching, research, patient care and community engagement, its schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate biomedical sciences have graduated 39,700 alumni who are leading change, advancing their fields, and renewing hope for patients and their families throughout South Texas and the world.  UT Health San Antonio is a 2022 Forbes Best-In-State Employer and is fast becoming known as a place that launches and advances careers. The mission of UT Health San Antonio is to make lives better through excellence in education, research, health care and community engagement. ​​Strategies for achieving this mission are:

• Educating a diverse student body to become excellent health care providers and scientists.
• Engaging in research to understand health and disease.
• Commercializing discoveries, as appropriate, to benefit the public.
• Providing compassionate and culturally proficient health care.
• Engaging our community to improve health.
• Influencing thoughtful advances in health policy.

Job Summary

The Sr. Clinical Information Technology Project Manager will champion, establish. and reinforce project management best practices focused on proposal & business case development, requirements gathering, schedule development, oversight & status updates and related practices through the lifecycle with the goal of furthering the missions and expansion of UT Health San Antonio. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Develop, implement, and reinforce project management methodologies and tools across multi-functional IT teams, internal stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Oversee strategic plan, monitoring and adapting based on institutional portfolio, program, or project needs/
•  Review project proposals, define business cases, scope & level of effort, identify goals & objectives, determine capital & support costs, outline risks, assumptions & constrains, verify priorities, identify deliverables, create project plans, and set timelines.
•  Use off-the-shelf project management tools to track project performance and schedule adherence
• Organize and lead project meetings with assigned resources, stakeholders, and vendors to discuss project goals and track progress throughout the project lifecycle.
• Document current and future technical workflows as well as end-user workflows with the objective of capturing a summary overview, listing all relevant steps, and identifying potential gaps while offering recommendations to support institutional improvements.
• Hands-on-assistance with ancillary system configurations and validation rounds when necessary.
• Apply change control management techniques as part of project work or when necessary to meet project scope variations.

Education 

• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific, business, or technical field.
• Four (4) years of comparable healthcare project management experience may be substituted for a degree.
• PMP certification is strongly preferred. 

Experience 

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in project management in a Healthcare or related setting working with Epic, a leading industry Electronic Health Records (I.e., Cerner, McKesson, Meditech), or ancillary clinical systems.