WHY CHOOSE ISMP?
ISMP is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ISMP team:
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Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
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On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
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Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
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Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
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Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
ABOUT ISMP
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is the only 501c (3) nonprofit organization devoted entirely to preventing medication errors. During its more than 25- year history, ISMP has helped make a difference in the lives of millions of patients and the healthcare professionals who care for them.
ISMP is known and respected as the gold standard for medication safety information. It also has served as a vital force for progress. ISMP’s advocacy work alone has resulted in numerous necessary changes in clinical practice, public policy, and drug labeling and packaging.
Among its many initiatives, ISMP runs the only national voluntary practitioner medication error reporting program, publishes newsletters with real-time error information read and trusted throughout the global healthcare community, and offers a wide range of unique educational programs, tools, and guidelines.
In 2020, ISMP formally affiliated with ECRI to create one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world. The affiliation allows both organizations to work more closely together for the benefit of providers, patient advocates, governments, and most importantly, patients.
From the affiliation, a new Patient Safety Organization took form: ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices PSO. The launch of the new PSO created a single source for safety that harnesses the unprecedented expertise of each organization. Together, ISMP and ECRI bring up-to-date information and real-time guidance to assure healthcare leaders across the continuum of care that they are making the best decisions to keep patients safe.
As an independent watchdog organization, ISMP receives no advertising revenue and depends entirely on charitable donations, educational grants, newsletter subscriptions, and volunteer efforts to pursue its life-saving work.
POSITION SUMMARY
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This role affords an opportunity to have significant impact on the department’s project management and process improvement systems with a focus on operational excellence & strategic execution to enable the department to improve medication safety worldwide with increasing levels of effectiveness and efficiency.
This role for an experienced program manager will be involved in departmental strategy deployment, implementation & execution of critical strategic projects, business process transformations, and supporting the development of new products/services within the department.
The Program Manager must be able to effectively lead and manage projects, develop, and manage program/project schedules, and lead program/project execution leveraging the appropriate project management and process improvement tools. This role must be able to effectively construct detailed work plans, manage teams, achieve milestones, and communicate the results across a broad stakeholder audience.
This role within ISMP provides a real opportunity to have impact on the ability of the department to grow in its mission through the consistent execution of key programs and projects, strategic initiatives, and process improvement initiatives. |
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions Statement(s):
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Support department needs assessment, development of program/project plans, goals, and objectives regarding ISMP’s Key Initiatives implementation. |
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Develop plans and processes needed to accomplish the program/project objectives. |
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Support the design of content, tools, and processes which enable effective, standardized, scalable deployment of department project management. |
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Monitor all phases of projects to ensure that maximize efficiencies and optimal productivity standards are being met. |
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Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed escalating issues as necessary based on project work plans. |
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Support the development and maintenance of processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle, setting project quality and performance standards, and assessing and managing risk within multiple projects. |
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Keep abreast of technological advancements and look for practical applications to improve processes. |
Additional Responsibilities:
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Other duties, as assigned. |
Accountability Metrics:
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Compile defined metrics and submit required recurring reports to business leaders/ management. |
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When required, responsible for coaching the project leader to manage to the budget & schedule of each active project. |
