Job Description
Client: DaVita Req# 36196004 Job Title: IT Project Manager Location: Denver, CO / Remote Start: 06/02/2025
End: 12/31/2025 (Possibility of extension) Pay Rate: $80/hr on C2C Job Description: DaVita seeks an IT Project Manager to lead enterprise-wide, cross-functional initiatives. Core Skills and Responsibilities: • Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of project sponsors and key stakeholders • Effective in leading large scale software change management with downstream impact across multiple stakeholder groups • Strong background in Agile project management, ceremonies and documentation • Entrepreneurial mindset, focused on delivering Business Value, comfortable with evolving business needs, thrives in a dynamic work environment. • Polished Executive Communication skills, comfortable collaborating with Sr IT Leaders and Business Executives to define, plan and deliver complex IT projects. • Strategic thought leader, ready to help DaVita shape the future of our project portfolio. • Collaborative Leader, who models empowerment and personal ownership to project team, to help their project teammates achieve more than they could individually. • Experience delivering enterprise-scale transformative project solutions. PM will partner with leaders within other IT Lanes (Architecture, Requirements, App Development, Quality Assurance, IT Operations, Learning & Development, and Risk & Security) to deliver individual project solutions. PM is not expected to have in-depth technical knowledge in other IT Lanes, but needs to demonstrate servant leadership & have excellent communication skills. PM will have primary responsibility over project budget, project schedule, and delivery of overall project scope. • Thrives in a professional environment, in which teammates have a high degree of empowerment and responsibility. PM will use their professional judgment and previous experience to lead diverse project teams and deliver business value. PM has process-oriented, tactical & reporting responsibilities, which are necessary but are secondary in importance. • Responsible for leading IT Project Team - including mentoring/coaching/recognizing excellence/addressing conflict to manage a geographically diverse team of IT professionals. PMs succeeds through influence, not authority. DaVita IT is functionally organized. PMs succeed by building professional relationships that are built upon trust and respect. Project Leadership Teams are highly empowered to exercise their professional judgement, and are collectively responsible to deliver their specific project solution. • Manages end-to-end delivery of 2-4 large-scale, complex IT projects at any given time • Leads IT Project team, composed of both Teammates (DaVita Employees) and Guest Teammates (DaVita Contractors) • Collaborates with senior stakeholders within IT and Business to clearly articulate scope boundaries and quantify business value to be delivered • Represents the project in various governance meeting and inter-departmental forums • Manages all aspects of the project lifecycle and oversees project delivery within DaVita's Project Delivery framework • Manages project scope, schedule and budget, to ensure IT commitments are met within established time, cost and quality parameters. • In collaboration with Project Leadership Team, PM composes and publishes the project charter. In collaboration with Project Leadership Team, PM creates and maintains the project schedule. PM submits and manages project change requests (PCRs) as needed. PM Develops and implements project communication plan. PM regularly reports project status. • PM is single accountable party to manage and report upon project budget. Validates financial forecasts from lane leads. Tracks actual spend, accruals and forecast spend. Publishes monthly budget forecasts. Manages variance between planned and actual spend. Manages budget contingency. Approves project labor. In partnership with lane leads, created and maintains project staffing plan. • Proactively manages project risks, issues. Identifies and resolves blockers raised by project team. Appropriately escalates project issues to Project Sponsor, PMO Leadership and ultimately to IT Sr Leadership as needed, to keep projects on-track.
Education and Qualifications: • Proven ability to build strong, long-term professional relationships, based upon trust and respect. • Strong influencing skills • Sound business and technical acumen • Experienced with stakeholder expectation management • Adaptable leader who is thrives in a dynamic work environment, in which project solutions deliver real benefit to patients, and in which business needs evolve over the lifecycle of individual projects • Excellent ability to communicate at all levels in a clear, confident, concise manner. • Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills • Ability to learn and navigate complex organizational structures. • 5+ years of IT Project Management experience (required) • 5+ years of experience in Healthcare (preferred) • Bachelor's Degree (Master's Degree strongly preferred) • Project Management Certification (PMP, SCM, etc) • Experience using Agile/Iterative project management platforms (Jira, Confluence) • Experience using a PPM (Project and Portfolio Management) tool
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