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Job Summary:
The University of Miami Health System is seeking a Full-time IT Portfolio Manager for Health Applications. The role involves overseeing and managing programs and projects within the health applications portfolio, ensuring alignment with clinical strategies and successful project delivery that impacts patient care and clinical operations.
Responsibilities:
• Works to develop and implement best practices, processes, and toolsets for effective portfolio/project management, and helps educate staff on best practices and effective project execution.
• Manages and leverages the life cycle of a wide range of cross departmental initiatives, investments, programs, projects, and outcomes to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives.
• Recalibrates the portfolio as necessary when the demands of the business dictate a change in delivery or scope of work.
• Collaborates with Project Intake Team to manage the processes of reviewing new requests, assessing project priority, and making go / no-go recommendations to Executive Steering Committee.
• Coordinates with Enterprise PMO on management of large, strategic initiatives.
• Works with the leadership team, department directors and project business sponsors to provide a comprehensive overview of capital and operational projects (overview includes the anticipated overall budget for each initiative in the portfolio).
• Partners with the PMO on project requests, processes and procedures through project completion including projects specifically managed by PMO/PMs.
• Provides oversight to program and project managers within the portfolio and quality assurance ensuring that initiatives are being well managed and adhering to appropriate standards and good practice; develops and facilitates regular portfolio performance review presentations for Executive Steering Committee.
• Manages all aspects of change control and risk oversight.
• Develops an overall understanding of each initiative in the portfolio to understand the potential customer impact and service requirements generated by each initiative in the portfolio.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.
• Oversee and administer clinical application programs and projects within the Health Applications portfolio, including Epic implementations, upgrades, and integrations.
• Collaborate with clinical stakeholders, including CMIO, nursing leadership, and department heads, to align project priorities with strategic clinical goals.
• Lead intake and assessment of clinical IT projects, balancing capacity against demand and ensuring alignment with enterprise clinical strategies.
• Conduct resource planning, budgeting, and continuous monitoring of Health Application portfolio health.
• Develop and implement best practices for clinical application project execution, including Epic-specific methodologies.
• Provide oversight and quality assurance for clinical application project managers, ensuring adherence to standards and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare and present clinical portfolio performance reviews to executive leadership and steering committees.
• Manage change control and risk oversight for clinical systems, ensuring patient safety and compliance.
• Understand the clinical impact of each initiative, including workflow changes, patient experience, and service delivery.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, nursing, health informatics, computer science, or related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience in portfolio, program, or project management, with a strong track record in clinical application implementations
• Experience managing large-scale clinical systems implementations and upgrades
• Proven ability to manage multiple clinical projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Proven experience managing expectations and managing cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated use of sound and proven program / project management practices and tools, including excellent MS Office skills
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision
• Strong understanding of clinical workflows and healthcare operations
• Familiarity with healthcare regulations (HIPAA, Joint Commission, CMS)
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (both oral and written) with the ability to clearly communicate complex messages to a variety of audiences and maintain successful relationships across all departments
Preferred:
• Master’s degree
• Experience with Epic applications or Epic EMR certified
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or CSM
• One to two years' experience in healthcare IT portfolio management, preferably with Epic systems
• Experience in an Agile/Scrum
• Certifications, Licenses and Training PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Experience in cybersecurity or architecture within clinical environments
Company:
University of Miami is a public research university that provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. Founded in 1925, the company is headquartered in Coral Gables, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.