RN Project Manager - Development and Support

<div><p><b><strong>Minimum Qualifications:</strong></b></p><p>Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and five years of clinical nursing experience. Must be a Registered Nurse with a current license to practice in Texas. </p><p> </p><p><b><strong>Preferred Qualifications: </strong></b></p><ul><li>Master's degree (MSN, MHA, MBA, MPH, or related field). </li><li>Three years of experience in project/ team management or facilitation, or nursing leadership.</li><li>Experience in acute care, large health systems, or complex clinical environments.</li><li>Certification in quality, safety, nursing specialty, or administration.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Job Summary:</strong></p><p>The Project Development and Support Manager is an RN who leads and supports initiatives to improve clinical operations, patient outcomes, and quality performance across the organization. This position focuses on identifying operational gaps, designing sustainable solutions, and driving projects that enhance efficiency, safety, compliance, care delivery, and improve the customer experience. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Job Duties:</strong></p><ul><li>Uses clinical and operational data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for improvement.</li><li>Coordinates the identification, monitoring, resolution, and follow-up of patient care, departmental, or health system projects, goals, and operational issues.</li><li>Identifies, analyzes, and resolves operational challenges impacting nursing workflows, patient throughput, staffing efficiency, and/or resource utilization.</li><li>Develops and administers specific tools and methods for management of goals, projects, and tasks to ensure high-quality, cost-effective service/outcomes in a safe work environment.</li><li>Leads cross-functional initiatives to standardize processes and equipment, reduce variation, and improve reliability of care.</li><li>Supports change management efforts to ensure the successful adoption of new workflows, tools, or processes.</li><li>Develop dashboards, reports, and presentations to communicate outcomes, risks, and return on investment.</li><li>Identifies appropriate internal controls for departments and/ or projects; provides mechanisms to monitor and enforce compliance.</li><li>Coordinates data management.</li><li>Demonstrates a high level of productivity and dependability.</li><li>Performs related duties as required.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Ability to develop teams and work effectively with groups.</li><li>Ability to effectively deal with conflict management and the skill to anticipate and bring issues to resolution.</li><li>Ability to function effectively in complex and ambiguous situations.</li><li>Ability to influence without direct authority</li><li>Strong interpersonal and communication skills</li><li>Strong presentation skills</li></ul><p><br><strong>Working Environment:</strong></p><ul><li>Requires occasional travel to off-site UTMB locations or conferences.</li><li>May be exposed to such occupational hazards as communicable diseases, bloodborne pathogens, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, hazardous medications, and disoriented or combative patients or others.<br> </li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Salary Range:</strong></p><p>$81,000.00 to $125,000.00, actual salary commensurate with experience.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Work Schedule:</strong></p><p>Partial Remote to be determined by the department. Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, and as needed on occasion.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Equal Employment Opportunity</strong></p><p>UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.</p></div>

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