Project Manager
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About Us:

At Cooper University Health Care, our commitment to providing extraordinary health care begins with our team. Our extraordinary professionals are continuously discovering clinical innovations and enhanced access to the most up-to-date facilities, equipment, technologies and research protocols. We have a commitment to its employees by providing competitive rates and compensation, a comprehensive employee benefits programs, attractive working conditions, and the chance to build and explore a career opportunity by offering professional development.

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Short Description:

Manage projects

Manages multiple projects of varying degrees of complexity and risk from inception to successful completion. Effectively applies Cooper PMO methodology and enforces project standards.

Leads project Planning

Documents the scope and objectives of assigned projects. With the support of the team and sponsors, develops a comprehensive and well-planned method for fulfilling project scope and objectives. Identifies skill sets, team roles and financial resources needed to accomplish project goals. Creates reliable project resource estimates, project work plans, and timelines.

Scope Management

Manages project scope throughout project, documenting and escalating for approval scope changes, in order to understand and plan for the impacts of the change.

Manages Project Team

Provides team leadership throughout the project. Oversight and management of team members, addressing team cohesion, conflict management, independent work, on time delivery, performance mentoring, motivation, and evaluation.

Project Communication

Communicates effectively with relevant project staff and stakeholders. Develops and executes project communication plans, specific to the project and appropriate for all levels of the organization.

Meeting Facilitation

Prepare for and lead project meetings, including team meetings, sponsor meetings, vendor meetings, etc. Manages meetings, keeping on agenda and time, addressing attendee over or under participation, closes out meeting with topic summary and documented action items. Distributes meeting minutes.

Manage risk and issues

With support of team, identifies tracks and develops solutions for issues and risks. Escalates issues appropriately and timely. Develops contingency plans to mitigate issue and risk impact.

Document

Either personally completes or manages through assigned project team the completion of detailed project documents as stipulated by the project management framework or identified during the project planning phase. Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.

Over the next 3 Years Coopers Center for Healing will be expanding their Emergency MOUD (BupeFirst) program to additional pilot sites across New Jersey. The Project Manager role will support this work by managing the grant and research related activities. This will include:

• Managing multiple projects within the EMS program portfolio of varying degrees of complexity and risk from inception to successful completion.

• Work with the Research Manager to develop processes to manage research activities and support research initiatives.

• Work with stakeholders and SMEs to manage relationships with pilot sites around New Jersey.

• Working with data analyst and grants coordinator(s) to develop data collection process for pilot sites and ensure regular reporting of the program.

• Document processes and lessons learned from work with pilot sites to inform grant reporting as well as development of an implementation manual.

• Schedule, coordinate and facilitate meetings with pilot sites and funders to review and evaluate the progress of the program.

• Partner with Grant coordinator to track all expenditures related to the Grant.

• Manage special projects including development of new programs under the Grant.

• Does not directly supervise staff but will lead work of the team.

Experience Required:

2-4 Years of experience required

Education Requirements:

Bachelor Degree Required