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Are you passionate about healthcare transformation, organizational change, and the intersection of clinical practice and technology? The Office of Clinical Informatics (OCI) at Michigan Medicine seeks a Clinical Informatics Project Manager to support high-impact, complex projects across the academic medical center.
Reporting to the Chief Medical Information Officer for the academic medical center, you will partner with clinical leaders, end-users, and IT professionals on projects focused on EHR feature implementations, process and workflow optimization, governance, and analytics' especially in the context of Michigan Medicine's exciting transition towards One Epic.
You'll play a pivotal role in requirements gathering, communication strategy, stakeholder presentations, and project tracking, ensuring successful handoff to operational teams while navigating a dynamic, evolving work environment.
- Collaborate closely with clinical informatics faculty, clinical leaders, and IT teams to gather requirements and align project deliverables with organizational goals.
- Develop and execute communication strategies, preparing presentation materials for a variety of stakeholders.
- Identify project critical paths, milestones, and dependencies for success.
- Create compelling visualizations and narrative materials to share stories of project impact, drawing on Michigan Medicine analytics resources.
- Support the transition of pilot projects into operational workflows, ensuring documentation and training needs are recognized.
- Maintain awareness of EHR (Epic) feature roadmaps, timelines, and optimization opportunities relevant to clinical informatics.
- Function as a calm, level-headed communicator, skilled at navigating ambiguity, complex decision processes, and challenging stakeholder dynamics.
- Work independently to confirm deliverables and drive project outcomes, even where expectations may not be immediately clear.
- Use Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel) to manage project activities.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Health Sciences, Business, Information Technology, Engineering).
- Minimum 5 years of progressive project management experience, ideally in large, complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects from initiation through closing, with stakeholder engagement and communication excellence.
- Proficiency in MS Office tools and presentation material development.
- Experience working with clinical end-users, ideally in healthcare or clinical IT environments.
- Project management certification (PMP, CAPM, Scrum Master, PRINCE2, or equivalent) candidates without a certification must commit to obtaining one within 18 months of hire.
- Clinical experience (e.g., nursing, allied health, care delivery, etc.).
- Familiarity with Epic or other EHRs.
- Experience with regulatory and compliance frameworks.
- Comfort working in settings with evolving governance and organizational structure.
- Knowledge of analytics options and data visualization (e.g., dashboards, survey tools, etc.).
Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.
Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.
The mission of the Office of Clinical Informatics (OCI) is to provide clinical leadership and insight to the selection, configuration, training, and optimization of the information systems of Michigan Medicine as well as maximize the efficacy of these systems toward our patients and the Michigan Medicine clinical, research, and educational missions.
Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.
