University of Washington · 3 months ago
Senior Portfolio Governance Administrator
The University of Washington is a renowned institution seeking a Senior Portfolio Governance Administrator to lead IT Governance initiatives. This role involves managing technology governance programs, supporting business case development, and ensuring effective communication across various teams within UW Medicine.
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Responsibilities
Responsible for leading teams to deliver the technology governance program spanning across all business units
Manages resources, schedules, and approaches throughout the full project life cycle
Serves as a coach and mentor to governance team members to ensure excellent customer service in full compliance with Governance standards, contributing to further development and improvement of these standards
Leads projects to mature and grow the governance maturity within ITS, benchmarking our efforts across healthcare IT and bringing and implementing best practices where they are a good fit for UW Medicine
Works closely with user representatives, other ITS teams, operations staff, and other project team members from ideation through scheduling
Analyzes business processes and data
Supports IT Owners and Business Owners in business case development including KPIs and risk categorization and mitigation
Supports the operational departments ensuring that their ideas and needs are captured
Analyzes the overall portfolio for investment trends, benchmarks, capacity, and risk, presenting this information to executives and highlighting strategic opportunities
Communicates broadly and proactively leading IT Governance activities and improvements
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a healthcare-oriented profession, a technology field, a business-related field, or other discipline that demonstrates analytical or communications abilities, or related field or equivalent education and/or experience
5+ years of overall experience to include the below
5+ years of experience serving in a project leadership role with responsibility for managing progressively more complicated vendor-packaged system deployment and/or process improvement projects
3+ years of recent experience utilizing tools to manage projects/programs/portfolios
2+ years working with portfolio management or governance in a large healthcare setting
Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding all teams accountable for performance
Demonstrated leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organizations/business units
Demonstrated experience effectively working with multiple, diverse, stakeholders in a complex project environment within a cross-functional matrix environment
Demonstrated experience managing project work and/or work of others within an established standard project lifecycle framework
Demonstrated experience managing operational work, including process KPIs and capacity management
Benefits
15 days of vacation your first year
12 days of sick time
1 personal holiday
11 paid holidays each year
100% matching, 100% immediately vesting 403(b)
Company
University of Washington
University of Washington is an educational institution that provides undergraduate, graduate, and research programs.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$205.35MKey Investors
Avista foundationNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesAdvanced Research Projects Agency for Health
2025-04-21Grant· $0.01M
2024-09-13Grant
2024-08-13Grant· $21.1M
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