Most Loved Workplace® Certified JobSr. Project Manager - Project Implementation Team, Ambulatory Operational Excellence
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At UCLA Health, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Hospital & Health Care space, Healing humankind, one patient at a time, with world-class care and discovery..
At UCLA Health, our vision is to heal humankind, one patient at a time, by improving health, alleviating suffering and delivering acts of kindness. With over 280+ practices across Southern California, UCLA Health Clinics are uniquely positioned to provide care for patients through a comprehensive array of health services delivered where our patients live and work. The Ambulatory Operational Excellence Team supports UCLA Health Clinics’ mission to deliver leading-edge patient care by providing reporting and analytics, promoting operational excellence, and helping to ensure that patients receive timely and efficient care. This role is a key driver of enterprise ambulatory transformation, supporting large-scale operational initiatives, clinic expansion, and system-wide standardization efforts across UCLA Health. As the Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for implementation, coordination, monitoring, and maintaining a variety of enterprise-wide efforts and multi-faceted projects to support clinical and administrative services, community practice expansion initiatives, and process improvement initiatives. You will manage these complex projects by using critical project management thinking skills, including, but not limited to, establishing scope of work and project plans, facilitating collaboration and communication between functional groups across departments, managing timelines for project tasks, reporting, ensuring goals are tracked and met, and effectively coordinating activities with the project team. In addition, you will assist in streamlining existing projects and management processes, procedures and guidelines by incorporating applicable best practices. In this role, you will demonstrate managerial and leadership skills to support administrative and professional staff in project activities. You will also organize project specific and advisory group meetings and ensure that minutes and action items are generated and distributed. This role also requires travel between all Health System practice locations as assigned.
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Why This Is a Most Loved Workplace® Certified Job
Systemic Collaboration
Our employees are challenged and empowered in an atmosphere of learning and support. Every day, we are able to make a significant difference for our patients, our community and our team members. We are committed to equity, inclusion and diversity. All employees have an opportunity to work alongside other world-class health care professionals and contribute to our reputation as an internationally-respected leader. Every day, we are able to make a significant difference for our patients, our community and our team members.
Positive Vision for the Future
There’s a sense of shared purpose that lets us know we’re in a true place of inclusive, compassionate healing. That’s the UCLA Health culture and it’s built on a clear mission, a focused vision and enduring values.
Alignment of Values
More than a visionary leader at UCLA Health, Johnese Spisso, CEO of the UCLA Hospital System, is active in community leadership and has served as the Los Angeles Community Chair for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Light the Night Walk as well as the Los Angeles Community Chair for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Luncheon. She has received numerous awards and recognition throughout her career, including being named to Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Most Influential Women Leaders in 2019, LA Business Journal’s 500 Most Influential Leaders in Los Angeles in 2020 and Modern Healthcare’s Top 50 Clinical Leaders of 2020 in the U.S.
Respect
UCLA Health champions the talent that unites our organization in serving our communities. We believe that every individual has a voice, and we welcome the difference those voices make in enhancing our world-class culture of healing humankind through acts of kindness.
Killer Outcomes
As members of the UCLA Health community, we are committed to the highest ethical standards to advance our mission of delivering leading-edge patient care, research and education. We all share the responsibility of conducting our professional and personal practices, following the principles of integrity, compassion, respect, teamwork, excellence, and discovery. We are committed to honoring the trust of our patients, families, and community by continuously striving to deliver exceptional care through excellence in quality, safety, service, affordability, and equity
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