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Program Specialist

Role overview

Summary

The Program Specialist role at Baptist Health focuses on managing IT programs and projects, ensuring their successful execution within defined parameters. This position plays a critical role in coordinating project activities and improving internal communication processes.

Qualifications

  • 5 - 10 years’ progressive leadership and management experience in IT or business.
  • Preferred: Bachelor’s degree or 4 years’ experience, Master’s
  • Preferred: Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or equivalent
  • Preferred: Agile or SCRUM certification
  • Preferred: Lean Six Sigma certification

Responsibilities

  • Manage the project plan, budget, and issues management list.
  • Coordinate project activities including software and hardware implementation training.
  • Develop a plan for sustaining support and process improvement.
  • Oversee the direction, scope, cost, schedule, quality, and success of IT projects.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Quality Assurance
  • Training And Development
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Baptist Health System KY & IN

  • Hospitals & Health Systems
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.

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Job description

Summary

Job Description:

Baptist Health is looking for a Program Specialist to join our team! This is a remote work position that requires residency in KY or IN

The Program Specialist is responsible for the IT programs/projects within assigned scope, with overall responsibility for the direction, scope, cost, schedule, quality, and success of the projects. This includes managing the project plan, budget, issues management list, work breakdown structure, and other project management tools. This position will coordinate all project activities: software and hardware implementation training, and optimization, business and IT related tasks, internal communications process improvement, and develop a plan for sustaining support.


Qualifications:


  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree( or 4 years’ experience), Master’s preferred.
  • At least 5 - 10 years’ progressive leadership and management experience including project experience in an IT environment or in business environment with major project management/system implementation role. Applicable system expertise a plus.
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification or equivalent preferred.
  • Agile or SCRUM certification a plus.
  • Lean Six Sigma certification a plus.

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

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