Senior Project Manager

As a Senior Project Manager, you will provide project and portfolio leadership and oversight for complex and strategic projects. You’ll drive to achieve business benefits for clinical and corporate stakeholders by managing projects to corporate standards, coordinating within Fraser Health and with vendors. You’ll gain access to valuable educational opportunities and tools to advance your career.

Build on your education and career experience as you:

• Coordinate projects between Fraser Health teams, PHSA teams, vendors and the project steering committee.
• Adhere to Fraser Health policies and priorities, directing work and ensuring issues are resolved and risks mitigated to achieve business outcomes and schedule, financial and scope objectives.
• Communicate with executive leadership and other partners to provide updates on project progress and maintain project alignment to strategic organizational goals.
• Manage technical work including data conversions, system integrations (new and existing), and development of customized forms and reports, supporting workflows within the EMRs.
• Manage to key project performance indicators including schedules, budgets, financial forecasts and actual project spending.
• Adhere to the Project Management Office Project Lifecycle as mandated by executives. Works with the Project Sponsors and stakeholders by monitoring and reporting on all project phases to ensure project success and overall quality of implemented solutions; provide updates on project status and advise Project Sponsors of project issues and risks requiring attention and/or mitigation.
• Manage established contracts and work with vendors and other external service providers to ensure completion of deliverables and quality of performance; monitor the skills and capabilities of external staffing to be continuously fit for purpose to deliver program objectives; negotiate changes and resolve disputes as authorized by Fraser Health.

To join our team, we will look for you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or Health Information Science, supplemented with
• Twelve (12) years’ recent related experience with contemporary project management practice including five (5) years’ experience as a senior project manager for a large complex organization
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
• Experience leading projects involving multiple system integrations and changes in clinical documentation practices
• Health care experience supporting services within the Home Support, Long Term Care and Community portfolio

An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered

This is a Full Time opportunity and is based out of Central City Tower, Surrey BC.

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitment of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

The Senior Project Manager provides project leadership and oversight for assigned large-scale technology project(s) and/or group of projects in support of Fraser Health (FH) executive, clinical and business stakeholders.

The Senior Project Manager provides services to FH clients in the areas of strategic business systems planning, business process design and information management; develops plans and strategies to deliver organizational and enterprise-wide initiatives from initial idea stage to implementation and leads the processes to realize business and operational benefits for the client group; consults with stakeholders and other client groups to implement overall Ministry of Health, Fraser Health and Information Management strategic direction.

The Senior Project Manager leads enterprise-wide projects and other major organizational initiatives including managing timelines and resources, facilitating transition and change management, coordinating the procurement and management of external services and project team members; ensures implementation of standards for project practice and governance, measures compliance with existing processes and procedures, supports and complements the activities to ensure current and continually improving project oversight and outcomes. Plans, negotiates, coordinates, and implements project plans consistent with business cases, approved financial parameters, and business requirements.

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or Health Information Science, supplemented with seven (7) to ten (10) years' recent related experience with contemporary project management practice including five (5) years' experience as a senior project manager for a large complex organization, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Project Management Professional (PMP).

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

• Demonstrated ability to define, lead, plan, direct and manage projects and to deliver business results
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and manage multiple complex teams in an dynamic environment with changing priorities
• Advanced knowledge of project management tools, techniques and practices and the application of these in information management
• Demonstrated understanding of program and project finances in a public sector setting including capital and operating budgeting
• Ability to develop and maintain rapport with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to be organized, goal-oriented, proactive and practical
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team
• Ability to supervise staff and provide work direction to others
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
 
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 54,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
 
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
 
Together, we are the heart of health care.
 
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