Project Manager

The Project Manager partners with HUHS senior leaders to support strategic and operational priorities. This role brings structure, coordination, and accountability to complex organizational projects by working with leaders and teams to define problems, clarify goals, and develop practical solutions. Using data, staff input, and Lean-based improvement methods, the role helps teams test, evaluate, and refine approaches for various projects from initiation through completion and maintains clear plans, timelines, and measures of success. This role also builds project management capacity by coaching project owners and team members in effective tools and practices. Job-Specific Responsibilities: • Manages multiple cross-functional projects aligned with HUHS strategic and operational priorities, using a consistent project lifecycle from initiation through closeout. • Partners with executive sponsors, process owners, and managers to define project purpose, scope, outcomes, deliverables, roles, assumptions, constraints, and decision rights before work begins. • Develops and maintains project plans with work breakdowns, milestones, dependencies, critical path, timelines, resources, measures, and contingency plans; uses Gantt charts or equivalent tools to make work visible. • Establishes project governance, meeting cadence, and communication plans; prepares agendas, decision materials, and concise status updates for project teams, SLT, Executive Committee and steering groups. • Maintains project controls and records, including action and decision logs, RAID logs, requirements, risks, issues, and change requests; coordinates dependencies and resources and escalates barriers in a timely way. • Facilitates teams through data collection, problem definition, root-cause analysis, process mapping, option development, and decision-making; ensures all voices are heard and input is used appropriately. • Learns and applies HUHS’s Lean-based approach and tools to support process improvement work across the organization, integrating these methods into how projects are planned, led, and managed. • Coaches project owners and team members in practical project management and improvement tools, including scope definition, work planning, visual management, and follow-through. • Ensures deliverables are developed, tested, implemented, and sustained, including workflows, standardized work, measurement and test plans, implementation strategies, training, and change management; communicates clearly across HUHS and works with IT, Communications, vendors, and consultants as needed. • Adheres to the expectations and professional responsibilities of the department.  • Employs the standards, practices, and procedures of the department.  • Maintains compliance with HUHS policies, departmental procedures, required training, and applicable privacy, security, and regulatory requirements, including HIPAA. Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree required with minimum of 5 years of process improvement, project or program management experience, preferably in healthcare or higher education.  Advanced education may count towards years of experience • Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, collaboration tools, and project management tools; ability to learn Lean thinking and reporting tools. • Demonstrated ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment. Additional Qualifications and Skills: • The ideal candidate must have exceptional interpersonal, project management, and reporting, writing and editing skills and a proven record of working collaboratively with a wide range of constituents. • Should have a demonstrated record of success in complex