Epic Project Director

Job Description:

ABOUT US

At e4health, we Empower Better Health. The e4health Team is on a relentless mission to care for those teams who care for others. We bring our passion, ingenuity, and expertise to every engagement. In joining our Team, we want your help to provide our customers with powerful solutions in the pursuit of quality, integrity, clinical and financial value across healthcare.

Our People make the difference. Serving more than 400 hospitals and health systems nationwide for nearly two decades, e4health provides solutions to tackle the toughest problems in healthcare with unmatched technology, mid-revenue cycle, and operational expertise. e4health solutions streamline clinical, financial, and health information data and workflows, optimize coding, quality, and clinical documentation integrity processes, and address health IT operational challenges to deliver material results for healthcare organizations across the country. Learn more about us at www.e4.health.

JOB SUMMARY/ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Knowledge and experience in overall Project Methodology in the creation of the project plans, defining schedules and managing budget limitations
• Defines required roles and tasks, as well as standard PMI PMBOK project management activities
• Develops weekly status reports and modifies schedules
• Work with client team to manage and achieve program and project level goals
• Explore and summarize health system data to provide insight for strategic decisions
• Plans, manages, and coordinates project activities to ensure goals and objectives of multiple and large projects are accomplished within prescribed time-frame and funding parameters
• Establishes timelines and ensures project deadlines are met
• Maintains integrity and cost containment of projects
• Plans, manages, and coordinates projects and ensures project initiatives and timelines are met
• Liaise with service lines and technical teams to translate complex business and technology specifications into relatable concepts to expedite communications and project execution
• Develops project initiation process by defining project scope, determining action items, assigning ownership, creating project timetables, and tracking execution and workflow; prepares, presents and distributes project status reports
• Evaluates, plans, and monitors project implementation for clinical systems; manages project and project delivery teams, ensures deadlines are met, escalates issues for appropriate, timely resolution and adheres to standardized project management methodologies
• Develops interdisciplinary project teams in coordination with clinical community to ensure deployment of systems; serves as liaison to project sponsors, project teams and stakeholders; works with internal, external groups to optimize success of project deployment
• Communicates with user departments and project teams on project activities; confers with project staff and vendors to provide support and resolve problems; collaborates with clinical, financial and quality teams to define and develop metric goals
• Partners with management to develop tools and metrics to evaluate performance of target initiatives; assists with planning monitoring criteria and methodology
• Ensures availability of performance measurement data for review and analysis; evaluates and drives risk management process improvements, efficiencies and workflow enhancements
• Partners with management, identifies end user education, training program and services; assists in the development and maintains department policies and procedures
• Provides subject matter expert support in the development of clinical information systems and integration to improve the timely completion of projects
• Operates under general guidance and work assignments are varied and require interpretation and independent decisions on course of action
• Recommends innovative ideas, processes, and/or procedures for enhancements, additions, and modifications to improve existing systems
• Work with other members of the team to implement solutions to meet business operation needs
• Performs related duties as required

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience
  Minimum of Three (3) years' experience in Project Management business
• Healthcare background is a preferred
• PMP/SAFE Agile Certification is strongly preferred
• Familiarity with using key project management tools and disciplines
• Strong communication and follow-up skills
• Ability to effectively manage human and financial project
• Ability to and interest in travel
• Previous consulting experience highly desired

KEY SUCCESS ATTRIBUTES:  

• Integrity, passion, and ethics are required  
• Demonstrates strong collaboration skills  
• Has strong analytic and problem-solving abilities and techniques  
• Exhibit consistent initiative with strong drive for results and success  
• Demonstrate commitment to a team environment   
• Well-developed written, verbal, and presentation communication skills including deep listening and attention to detail
• Ability to self-motivate and self-direct
• Possess strong time management and organizational skills
• Commitment and adherence to company Core Values 
  
  

CORE COMPETENCIES: 

• High level of integrity & ethical judgement
• Communication
• Consistency and Reliability  
• Meeting Standards 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

Sitting, talking, hearing and near vision are required over 90% of the time. Feeling is required over 90% of the time and reaching is required about 50% of the time.  The ability to travel to field sites may be required up to 15% of the time.

WORKING CONDITIONS WHILE PERFORMING ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  

Over 90% of the time is spent indoors, with protection from weather conditions. Exposure to noise levels that may be distracting or uncomfortable is present in only unusual situations.

PAY RANGE

Pay range for this position is $65-95hr. 

e4health is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

At our organization, we believe in the principles of pay transparency to foster a fair and equitable workplace for all employees. In alignment with this commitment, we openly communicate salary ranges, bonus structures, and additional financial benefits associated with each position. We believe that transparency in compensation not only promotes trust and accountability but also helps mitigate wage gaps and biases. By providing clear and comprehensive information about compensation in our job descriptions, we aim to create a transparent and inclusive environment where all employees feel valued and respected. Join us in building a culture of fairness and transparency as we strive for excellence together.