Project Manager - Population Health

Project Manager - Population Health

Duration: 6 months (Possibility of extension)

Location: 100% remote

Role Description

The Project Manager will play a critical role in driving growth by leading a variety of projects aimed at implementing and optimizing operational processes.

• Serve as a project manager that reports to the Medicare, Managed Care, and Population Health Program Manager.
• Provide overall management of assigned projects from concept to completion.
• Highly experienced in EHR delivery and managing multiple projects end to end.
• Experience working with/overseeing product development team(s) within a healthcare/provider environment, preferably an enterprise healthcare system.
• Establish and maintain processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle, setting project quality and performance standards, and assessing and managing risk within, and across, multiple projects.
• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders—business, clinical, technical, and vendors—ensuring every detail is taken care of, driving toward on-time delivery.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with outside resources—including third-party vendors.
• Monitor and assign resources appropriately to streamline project efficiency and maximize deliverable outputs.
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed—escalating issues as necessary based on project work plans.
• Ensure open lines of communication for all team members.
• Ensure the correct resources are identified and are actively involved.
• Take initiative and track down the correct resources when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams to develop planning material and estimates.
• Own project methodology deliverables, including schedule, charter, and forecast.
• Manage project operations up to and including activation and transition to operations.
• Drive effort and seek clarity on barriers.
• Proactively manage issues/risks and document as such.
• Forecast resources and other project costs and support financial cycle.
• Lead project team meetings (including minutes as needed, tracking issues, risks, milestones, and timelines).
• Provide weekly status reporting.
• Apply standards (PMO/Program) and ensure document compliance (Project Artifacts).

Projects will include implementation of tools and systems to support:

1. Longitudinal patient tracking and care coordination across acute, post-acute, and ambulatory settings.
2. Payer contract modeling and analytics to support value-based care negotiations.
3. Health data integration and real-time reporting aligned to clinical and operational use cases.

Requirements

• Some level of clinical experience with knowledge of at least one of the primary acute EMRs (Athena, Cerner preferred).
• Experience with care coordination or HIE-enabling platforms and working with agile or product management teams.
• Ability to connect the intent of the project to the work of clinical and operational end users.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical, business, and clinical teams.
• Financial reporting skills (ability to track financial spend on project).
• Experience with ServiceNow and capital resource allocation.
• Prior experience with enterprise health systems preferred.
• Must be able to lead projects, with cameras on in a remote environment. PM is expected to be a proactive leader of projects and not just a meeting facilitator.
• Must be able to explain how they approach a project and the life cycle of a project.
• Experience supporting or working within population health initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience as a Project Manager (PM) partnering closely with end users, particularly in population health environments.
• Proven experience in the healthcare industry, preferably with a strong understanding of value-based care models, Medicare, and Medicaid.