Project Manager - Legal Office

Description

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Summary:
The UNCHCS Project Manager is responsible for leading major projects across the Health Care System, communicating strategies and successfully implementing them to achieve process improvements through consolidation/standardization for internal moves, acquisitions or new affiliations creating a single Health Care solution. Interfacing with all UNC Health Care facilities to drive Health Care System project plans ensuring they are completed with minimal disruption to patient care or administrative activities. Experienced seasoned professional with the ability to influence senior staff members to develop the best integration plans allowing UNC Health Care to be positioned to leverage its scope and scale for future growth and improvement. This individual will work collaboratively with a variety of entities, administrative individuals, teams, groups or physicians, clinicians and executives to implement these strategies creating a culture of high performance.

Responsibilities:

1. Working on the legal operations team in the legal department, analyzing and resolving complex issues, developing policies &procedures that maximize efficiency necessary to carry out co-locations and integrations. Putting together detailed project plans manually or in a PM software, ensure all proper internal controls are in place to safeguard assets of the system and satisfy internal and external regulatory requirements. Develop and monitor operating and capital budget. Will assist with rolling out technology platforms, working in excel on data projects to synthesize data and data mining, work on risk and audit projects and making presentations via power point to stakeholders and leadership teams.
2. Analyzes and resolves complex issues, develops policies & procedures that maximize efficiency necessary to carry out co-locations and integrations. Ensure all proper internal controls are in place to safeguard assets of the system and satisfy internal and external regulatory requirements. Develop and monitor operating and capital budget.
3. Create and maintain a customer focused work environment that attracts and retains high caliber employees. Coach and mentor employees in such a way as to obtain superior organizational engagement and performance. Monitor and evaluate performance and strive to ensure that all coworkers are treated fairly with compassion and respect.
4. Handle confidential information with sensitivity and discretion in accordance with Privacy & Health Care Systems requirements.
5. Interface with all UNC Health Care facilities to drive consolidations effectively satisfying both work and environment needs while reducing overall cost. Effectively communicate strategies and successfully elicit support and assistance implementing those strategies.
6. Performs all job responsibilities in alignment with the core values, mission and vision of the UNC Health Care System.
7. Work collaboratively with VP?s, Directors, teams and other end users to plan, develop and implement major projects like relocation, consolidations and co-locations of like or complementary services across entities in a common location. Determine the optimal balance of on or off campus work locations. Working with cross functional teams and other end users to scope space, cost, information technology, furnishings, parking, and all other needs for a fully defined work space.
8. Work with peers to identify and analyze opportunities for improvement. Implement processes to identify, implement and ensure standardization decisions occur with minimal disruption to patient care or administrative activities and creating win-win solutions.

Education Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Health Administration or related field.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* No licensure or certification required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
* Seven (7) years of experience in a supervisory, management or leadership role or Three (3) to Five (5) years of project management experience,or an equivalent combination of professional experience demonstrating project coordination, process improvement and stakeholder management skills.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

• Customer Focus: Excellent negotiating skills with win-win philosophy. Demonstrates the ability to resolve problems.
• Technical Expertise: Proficient with project management software, strong analytical skills and strategic planning experience.
• Coachability: Receptive to feedback, willingness to learn and embraces continuous improvement.
• Accountability: Ability to bring project to successful completion on time and within budget through political sensitivity.
• Fiscal responsibility: Analyzes project profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization. Understands the relationship of the budget and resources to the strategic plan.
• Coaching: Ability to develop and maintain excellent relationships with physicians and clinical staff with the ability to tailor the message to the audience. Experienced mentor with a demonstrated tract record to talent development.
• Conflict Resolution: Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict. Finds agreement on issues and follows through on implementation. Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
• Solving Problems: Ability to translate global strategy into short term accountabilities and is a strong team player who works collaboratively and is equally at ease with employees, peers and senior executives.

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: Legal Office

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.