Project Specialist

The Opportunity

At Mass General Brigham Digital, we pride ourselves on our ability to create maximum strategic, clinical, and operational value from established and emergent technologies for our patients, care teams, researchers, and employees. Digital health will not only enhance the equity and efficiency of healthcare delivery, but it will also help make medicine more personalized and precise.

We recognize that increasing value and continually improving quality while maintaining an inclusive focus are essential to organizational excellence, and we invite you to join us on this journey. The work we do in Digital is a strategic imperative, and there is a strong and growing understanding of how together we will transform Mass General Brigham in innovative and impactful ways.

The Project Specialist will contribute to the success of Digital through the management of one or more mid to large, enterprise-wide projects, and the resources associated with these projects.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop project goals, objectives, approach, and scope through negotiation and diplomacy that result in a well defined, well sponsored project.
• Develop workplan and timeline to meet project goals.
• Develop Digital IS strategies and solutions that comply with MGB Digital standards and strategic directions.
• Develop capital and operating funding requirements associated with a project. Manage project within allocated budget
• Primarily function as an autonomous decision maker, but recognize when the involvement of senior management is required.
• Plan, manage and over-see project, utilizing recognized project management methodology including activities such as:
  
  
  
  • Definition of project scope and objectives
  • Management and status reporting tools
  • Feasibility and cost benefit studies
  • Requirements definition (functional and/or technical)
  
  
  
  
• System testing/quality assurance
• Training, Implementation, Post-implementation/on-going support
• Project administrative activities
• Documentation
• Manage Digital projects within the context of the larger environment including competing priorities, staffing levels, budgetary concerns. Provide appropriate and timely problem escalation reporting (and potential solutions if applicable) to both Digital management, project steering committee, and executive hospital management
• Provide on-going project status reports to internal Digital management, user groups, project steering committee and executive hospital management.
• Negotiate and acquire enterprise-wide resources necessary to appropriately implement the project.
• Establish and create a positive project environment through leadership and mentoring.
• Provide quality customer service and serve as an exemplary representative of MGB Digital. On-going communication, feedback and follow-through with customers and executive hospital management is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• Strong project management skills
• Experience working on hardware related projects, desktop experience highly preferred
• PMP or other project management certification preferred
• 5+ years healthcare experience is preferred
• 5+ years IS experience preferred
• A combination of Education and relevant experience can be considered

Skills, Abilities, Competencies

• Strong project management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to cooperatively and effectively work with people from all organizational levels and build consensus through negotiation and diplomacy
• Ability to understand the enterprise environment and competing priorities in conjunction with developing/meeting project goals.
• Ability to manage large, complex projects, their dependencies, team members, other resources and timeline; and to prioritize and delegate accordingly.
• Ability to facilitate and work within a complex, multi-site environment.

Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.