Job Function Summary:
The IT Program Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for all technology workstreams supporting the new Helen Diller Hospital at Parnassus Heights. This role leads planning, design, and execution of technology infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, and end-user systems to ensure readiness for a safe, seamless hospital opening. The Program Manager coordinates across Health IT, Design & Construction, Facilities, and Clinical Operations, delivering executive-level oversight, governance, and risk management for this enterprise-critical initiative. This role ensures alignment between technology deployment, workflow adoption, and operational readiness, integrating technical, clinical, and facilities activation planning.
Responsibilities include:
- Managing and integrating scope, schedule, and budget across multiple IT workstreams.
- Tracking and managing program-level risks, issues, and dependencies with structured mitigation and escalation processes.
- Delivering comprehensive project reporting including capital budget updates, forecasts, variance analysis, and cash-flow tracking, while also identifying ongoing operating budget requirements.
- Coordinating governance and executive reporting, ensuring clear visibility into progress, risks, and decision points.
- Overseeing development, validation, and distribution of operational run books to technical and operational owners before project completion, ensuring sustainable handoff to operations.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Required
- Requires advanced knowledge of project management principles, theories, and concepts.
- Requires advanced knowledge of project management principles, theories, and concepts.
- Working knowledge of technology-related initiatives and an understanding of impact to the organization of such initiatives.
- Demonstrated capacity to anticipate obstacles and plan for contingencies. Demonstrated attention to detail. Demonstrated ability to determine relevance and prioritize tasks.
- Demonstrated effective writing skills.
- Proven leadership ability. Effective problem solving skills. Demonstrated ability to put forth persuasive arguments.
- Effective skill at tracking effort and project progress. Demonstrated strong conceptual and planning skills to analyze projects of broad and diverse scope. Demonstrated expert organization and project management skills. Understands the cost impact of projects, project tracking tools and metrics.
- Experienced mentor and leader of teams with experience leading a team of technology professionals.
- Ability to lead matrixed teams across IT, Facilities, and Clinical domains.
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative manner in order to achieve results that are significant in scope.
- Strong vendor negotiation and contract management skills.
- Ability to influence without direct authority across executive and operational levels.
- Strong business acumen and stakeholder alignment capabilities
- Preferred:
- Experience navigating California HCAI requirements, healthcare licensing, and accreditation processes impacting technology infrastructure.
- Advanced knowledge of all aspects of computing and communications including hardware infrastructure, networking, software, operations and disaster recovery.
- Has a thorough understanding of how programs relate to other business strategies and initiatives. Demonstrated ability to integrate critical information across disciplines.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with executive-level management on a regular basis.
- Experience analyzing highly complex projects with broad impact to the institution. Demonstrated ability to manage project progress within time and budget constraints.
Education:
- Required: Bachelor s degree Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field and / or equivalent experience / training.
- Preferred: Master s degree, ideally with focus on healthcare, engineering, or information systems management.
Certifications:
- Required: Project Management Professional (PMP) or PgMP (Program Management Professional) - certification
- Preferred:
Interested candidates please share your resume.
Thanks,
Adesh Udandi
Tech Firefly