Req #: 245690
Department: UW MEDICINE IT SERVICES
Appointing Department Web Address: http://uwmits_hires.uwmedicine.org/
Job Location Detail:
HYBRID - Position is primarily remote, but will require onsite work for projects
Posting Date: 04/29/2025
Closing Info: Closes On 05/06/2025
Salary: $11,250 - $13,500 per month
Limited Recruitment:
Open to Department employees only
Shift: First Shift
Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position,
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UW MEDICINE IT SERVICES
has an outstanding job opportunity for a
Portfolio Manager
.
PLEASE NOTE:
This position is only open to current UW Medicine IT Services employees.
WORK SCHEDULE
- 100% FTE – 40 hours per week
- Day Shift – UW MEDICINE ITS SERVICES CORE HOURS ARE 08:00 – 17:00 (PST), Monday-Friday DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION UW Medicine IT Services (ITS) is a shared services organization that supports all of UW Medicine. UW Medicine is comprised of Harborview Medical Center (HMC), UW Medical Center-Montlake Campus (UWMC-Montlake), UW Medical Center-Northwest Campus (UWMC-NW), Valley Medical Center (VMC), UW Medicine Primary Care (UWMPC), UW Physicians (UWP), UW School of Medicine (SOM), and Airlift Northwest (ALNW). ITS is responsible for the ongoing support and maintenance of the infrastructure and applications which support all these institutions, along with the implementation of new services and applications that are used to support and further the UW Medicine mission.
Duties will include developing and executing strategy for
IT Facilities programs and projects
. Will need to manage multiple programs and workstreams, prioritizing and scheduling projects, IT Facilities governance, and new construction. Includes innovation into facilities work, new products and efficiencies. Examples include facilities work, new products and efficiencies, devices, networks, phones, nurse call systems, Epic builds, innovative functionality (virtual care), and how innovation fits into new construction and well as renovation.
POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
- HYBRID work opportunity - Position is primarily remote, but will require onsite work for projects
- Values-based work environment
- Active departmental Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
- 15 days of vacation your first year – Also, 12 days of sick time, 1 personal holiday, and 11 paid holidays each year
- 100% matching, 100% immediately vesting 403(b) PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Initiating projects
- Ensuring project deliverable and outcomes
- Analyzing business processes and data
- Portfolio communications, including dashboards and reports
- Managing resources, schedules, scope, financials, and approach throughout the full project lifecycle
- Identifying and resolving issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery
- Planning and directing the configuration and functional testing
- Representing the service-line leaders in meetings, communications, and decision-making around portfolio execution
- Providing tactical guidance to service-line leaders based on portfolio execution
- Facilitating user requirements and project implementation
- Developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, and other project management documents
- Supporting the operational departments to improve associated systems REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in a healthcare oriented profession, a technology field, a business-related field, or other discipline that demonstrates analytical or communications abilities, or related field or equivalent education and/or experience
- 8+ years of overall experience to include the below:
- 8+ years of experience leading, managing, and coaching technology and/or business professionals in progressively more complicated vendor-packaged system deployment and/or process improvement projects
- Progressive, relevant experience related to IT portfolio, program, and project management; must include demonstrated experience serving a single service line
- Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external constituents, while holding all teams accountable for performance
- Demonstrated leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills including the ability to lead multiple business and technology organizations/business units
- Experience maintaining relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives
- Demonstrated experience effectively working with multiple, diverse stakeholders in a complex project environment within a cross-functional matrix environment
- Experience gaining buy-in from executives, sponsors, team members, stakeholders, and peers
- Proven ability to make independent administrative/procedural decisions and provide guidance and leadership to staff
- Demonstrated experience managing project work and/or work of others within an established standard project lifecycle framework and cognizant of budgetary and resource constraints
- Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated written and oral communication skills with technical staff, non-technical staff, and all levels of management
- Strong experience in Project Methodologies (e.g., Agile, SCRUM, SDLC/Waterfall)
- Prior experience in a role with significant customer service component
- Experience negotiating vendor contracts
- Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary
- Experience researching best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and using continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results ABOUT UW MEDICINE – WHERE YOUR IMPACT GOES FURTHER UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public?by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.
All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.
Become part of our team. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/jobs)
Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.
University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.