Strategic Project Manager

Hiring Department: Hosp Administration

Location: Chicago, IL USA

Requisition ID: 1040696

Posting Close Date: June 10, 2026

Salary: The salary range of employees currently holding equivalent position is $104,111 - $131,362.

About the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health)

The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health) provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the people of Illinois and beyond. A part of UI Health comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a Joint Commission-accredited tertiary care hospital and outpatient clinics, and the Mile Square Health Center network of federally qualified health centers. It also includes the seven UIC health science colleges: the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of Dentistry; the School of Public Health; the Jane Addams College of Social Work; and the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, including regional campuses in Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford, Springfield, and Urbana. UI Health is dedicated to the pursuit of health equity. Learn more: https://hospital.uillinois.edu/about-ui-health

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits . This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

Description:

Position Summary

The Strategic Project Manager will support the development and implementation of strategic initiatives by assisting with the creation of comprehensive program plans for key organizational initiatives. This will include managing a portfolio of projects of strategic and operational importance to the organization in addition to developing and maintaining a dashboard to track progress towards organizational goals. The Strategic Project Manager will work closely with managers, directors and analysts to identify areas for improvement and to achieve the department's strategic goals and objectives which include providing exceptional outcomes, creating an engaging culture, providing an ideal patient experience, planning for strategic growth, and ensuring a sustainable future.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate in strategic planning and development of overall hospital and clinic activities by identifying, analyzing presenting and implementing initiatives and programs to improve service, increase volume and revenue, improve process efficiency and patient access.
• Responsible for the development of project work plans and performance metrics, monitor work plans and metrics to assure activities are executed on-time and on-budget, coordinate the internal and external resources to complete activities as assigned.
• Recommend program modifications or new programs to improve utilization and quality of care and implement program changes upon approval.
• Responsible for leading an assigned portfolio of projects/ initiatives through active engagement of Executive Leadership and all stakeholders.
• Lead activities including project proposal/charter definition, budget development, resource allocation, management, information distribution and meeting facilitation.
• Develop, execute and manage detailed project/work plans, schedules, project estimates for resource requirements and status reports. Manages activities of project staff and acts as central coordinator of project communication.
• Conduct effective issue resolution and conflict management skills throughout the process to ensure the team continues to move forward.
• Develop, implement, and maintain performance dashboards to provide transparency into growth, access, patient experience, and financial performance metrics across clinics
• Responsible for tracking, monitoring, and communicating monthly, quarterly, and yearly progress in line with the Hospital’s strategic plan, goals, and metrics
• Collaborate with UI Health resources and committees to create strategies to increase program visibility and outreach to serve the community and reduce health disparities.
• Involved in developing communication plans of improvement/change efforts
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned
  
  

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Health Administration or related degree from an accredited program required.
• A minimum of one (1) year in previous healthcare related experience required. Demonstrated project management and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office product suite.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• A minimum of three (3) years previous healthcare related experience in strategy or operations preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or demonstrated project management methodology experience preferred.
• Proficiency with healthcare data systems (Epic, business intelligence tools) and ability to extract and analyze data preferred.
• Proven business writing skills with experience creating executive-level reports, presentations, and strategic documents.
• Strong health care industry knowledge and experience working in a hospital setting highly preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, management and communication skills.
  
  

The University of Illinois System is an equal opportunity employer, including but not limited to disability and/or veteran status, and complies with all applicable state and federal employment mandates. Please visit Required Employment Notices and Posters to view our non-discrimination statement and find additional information about required background checks, sexual harassment/misconduct disclosures, and employment eligibility review through E-Verify.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person.