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Job Title:	Project Manager II
Company:	Kaiser Permanente
Location:	San Diego, CA
Description:	Job ID: WC.0701774 Duties: Leads and provides expert technical leadership to highly visible, sensitive and multi faceted projects. Sets strategic direction of projects. Develops project plans which identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics and resources required. Designs processes to address identified problems. Establishes team membership and negotiates time commitments and resource allocation. Provides staff leadership to multi disciplinary teams, as well as manages work of outside consultants. Motivates team members and facilitates team meetings. Acts as liaison, problem solver, and facilitator. Cultivates and reinforces appropriate group values, norms, and behaviors. Provides guidance to team on performance and productivity issues. Designs research plans for data gathering and analysis. Actively participates or may lead in analyzing data and developing recommendations and action plans. Accountable for the development of project documentation for senior executives and other key clients to facilitate sharing of project outcomes and best practices. Plans and facilitates meetings. Makes formal presentations to various senior level audiences. Establishes procedures regarding implementation of project outcome. Assesses project impact on workforce. May include developing training program for different levels of audiences. Establishes effective professional business relationships with all levels of management. Instructs and educates on all aspects of project. May develop and manage a department, including recruiting, coaching, performance evaluation of staff. Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditation and licenser requirements (if applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures. Notes: This position is located in San Diego, CA. Some travel is required.
Requirements:	Qualifications: Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Operations Research, Public Health Administration, or other related field. Masters degree or clinical licenses (RN, MD, etc.) strongly preferred. Five (5)+ years of progressive experience in specified technical area. Project management experience in health care preferred. Demonstrated ability to determine key business issues and develop appropriate action plans from multi disciplinary perspectives. Demonstrated ability to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses. Effective leadership, project management, and consulting skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Effective interpersonal skills. Must be able to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment. Preferred Qualifications: Intermediate level or higher MS Access knowledge, SPSS (or other equivalent analytical software knowledge such as SAS or Stata), high level statistical data analysis, analysis interpretation and large scale reporting, information technology systems and administrative databases knowledge. Three (3) - five (5) years project management or consulting on large complex projects, and leading and facilitating workgroups. Project management life cycle, continuous quality improvement methods. Strong analytic, project management, consulting, and organizational skills. Strong MS Office, MS Access, SPSS, and Crystal reporting skills. SQL databases, SQL programming, EPIC, Crystal reporting, Business Objects reporting, clinical database querying knowledge, ICD-9 / CPT coding familiarity. Experience in healthcare environment, working with physicians and managers. Healthcare operations. Ability to collaborate with stakeholders who may have conflicting needs and / or priorities. Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative, team environment.
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To Apply:	To expedite the application process please apply at: http://kaiserext.kaiserpermanentejobs.org/joblist.html If you have any questions please contact: Maria Inacio, MS Project Manager Surgical Outcomes and Analysis SCPMG Clinical Analysis Kaiser Permanente 6670 Alton Parkway Irvine, CA 92618 Phone: (858) 581 8246 Fax: (949) 932 5199