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Project Manager Operations - Nursing Office

UNC Health Care
United States, North Carolina, Chapel Hill
101 Manning Drive (Show on map)
Mar 28, 2026

Description

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Summary:

Direct and manage project development from beginning to end and seeing that it is completed successfully within the given deadline and budget. Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. Develop full-scale project plans, financial plans, quality audit follow ups, and associated communications documents. In general this person is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of multiple, simultaneous projects ensuring consistency with UNCHCS strategy, commitments and goals.

Responsibilities:

1. Develops project plans, goals, and budgets identifies resources needed, develops schedules and methods for measuring results while maintaining optimum working relationships with all departmental units.
2. Responsible for program and project assignments working independently or collaboratively as appropriate to accomplish the assigned work. Identify issues and assist in developing strategies to address them prior to issues becoming critical. Keep senior management informed of project(s) status and any potential problems or political concerns.
3. Organizes/manages all phases of the projects to achieve schedule, cost and performance objectives, while maintaining the scope of the projects..
4. Prepares requests for proposals and conducts all necessary meetings to facilitate selection of project services and products. Assembles project team members assigns individual responsibilities and monitors project performance.
5. Plans and oversees the preparation and dissemination of project communications. Communicates with top-level management, project sponsors, and functional area managers/directors regarding status of specific projects. Produces project reports for the project sponsors and senior management.
6. Performs strategic analysis for the projects and develops objective means or status reports for assessing the status of the projects that are consisent with standard skills of project managers.
7. Coordinates effort and manages relationships with vendors and contractors necessary for any projects

Other Information

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Health Administration or related field or equivalency.

Professional Experience Requirements:

  • If Master's degree, requires two (2) years of professional experience in project management related work.
  • If a Bachelor's degree, requires five (5) years of professional experience in project management related work.
  • If an Associate's degree, requires nine (9) years of professional experience in project management related work.
  • If a high school diploma, requires thirteen (13) years of professional experience in project management related work.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

  • Strong knowledge of project management techniques and tools required.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • PMP or comparable project management certification
  • Experience using Smartsheet or a comparable project management tool
  • Finance and budgeting experience, preferably in a project or program management environment

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: Nursing Office

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

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