Project Manager, Information Services

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

Job Description

The Project Manager, Information Services is responsible for leading multiple healthcare IT projects (and/or multiple subprojects of a program) of various sizes and complexity. To be successful, the individual needs to demonstrate advanced project management skills ensuring project scope is aligned with the business objectives, customer expectations are established and managed, issues and changes are controlled and escalated as needed. Helps establish project budget, monitors and approves expenditures. Works with software vendor, (Cerner and others) to ensure that project will get done on time and within budget. This position requires developing and maintaining relationships with project stakeholders to obtain project objectives as well as mentoring and training individuals within the organization on established processes, templates, and methodology to drive the delivery of “repeatable” consistent results. This is an individual contributor role.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaboration

• Collaboration Work collaboratively with project stakeholders to develop a comprehensive project plan including: Scope, Schedule, Budget, Communications, Staffing, Risk and Issue Management, Test, and Change Management. Perform

Change Management

• Perform Change Management Create and manage project Change Requests and implement approved requests to achieve project deliverables.

• Perform Communication Management 10%Perform Communication Management Create / implement project organization and communication plans which enable the project team to effectively work together to meet project objectives.

• Communicate accurate, timely status information to the PMO and stakeholders.

Perform Issue & Risk Management

• Create RAIDC logs (Risk, Action, Issue, Decision, Changes).

• Efficiently identify and solve project issues as they arise.

Perform Meeting Management

• Prepare meeting agendas and meeting minutes, schedule and lead regularly recurring status meetings, distribute meeting documentation, and maintain and monitor action item listings as necessary.

• Facilitate and lead meetings and steering committee meetings by being well-prepared and adhering to topics.

Perform Project Management

• Create and execute project work plans in accordance with the Project Definition Document and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. Manage projects through the lifecycle stages.

• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders as needed. Meet with customers and internal stake holders to effectively communicate project expectations in a timely and clear manner.

• Successfully deliver projects on time, on budget and within project scope.

• Assist in driving project management governance, methods, methodologies, and tool acceptance.

Perform Project Planning

• Project schedules, project definition documents, project plans, status reports, and work breakdown structures.

Perform Project Scope Management

• Effectively manage project work within the stated scope.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of project management experience

• Bachelor's Degree in related field 

• Project management certification