Project Analyst

**Position Details**:
**Posting #**: 29694
**Department**:IT Project - Business Transformation
**Employee Type**:Temporary, Full Time
**If Temporary, Number of Weeks**:18 months
**Union**:Non-Union
**Openings Remaining**:1

**Schedule**:
**Work Days**: Monday to Friday
**Time of Day**: Days
**Shift**: 7.5 hour
**This position may be scheduled at any of the following sites**: Charlton Campus (Hamilton Downtown)

**Application Dates**:
**Opening Date**: 12/11/2024
**Closing Date**: 19/11/2024 Applications must be received online by 12:00 midnight on the Closing Date

**Position Description**:
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- Improving information flow through increased level of data integration
- Decreasing the administrative burden on clinical operations through the implementation of digital staff scheduling and time/attendance functionality.
- Supporting more informed decision-making through better access to consolidated data, adaptive planning capabilities, and advanced analytics.
- Increasing empowerment of staff through the deployment of self-service tools.
- Improving use of hospital resources to support better care for our patients and provide greater value to other stakeholders.

SJHH will require a Project Analyst to support the implementation of the solution.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or recognized equivalent required
- 1 to 3 years' experience, experience in healthcare preferred
- Demonstrated high level of verbal and written communication skills required for moderate intra organizational contracts re. Normal business, with staff from various disciplines, who possess varying degrees of technical experience
- Understanding of complex technical and operational concepts, principles and practices
- Ability to build consensus by listening and understanding different points of view, proposing acceptable alternatives and influencing people’s opinions
- Experience in facilitation of design sessions; a strong influencer capable of shaping opinions and achieving consensus
- Capable of finding creative alternatives that satisfy the needs of key stakeholders
- A team player, willing to go the extra mile to ensure team and project success

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Understand and document the existing business processes, using business process design tools such as process flow diagrams.
- Develop expert knowledge of the new system and of the business processes the system supports and of vendor recommended best practices.
- Analyzes, assesses and documents requirements and produces written abstracts.
- Identifies information and data requirements necessary to define solutions
- In cases where new business processes cannot be designed to exactly fit the vendor recommended best practices, document the gaps, create a strategy to bridge the gap, obtain approval for any necessary customizations, and monitor development and testing of the customization.
- Create, maintain and monitor execution of the project documentation, using the frameworks defined in the Project Management Office’s Methodology
- Facilitate information gathering and requirements sessions multi-disciplinary teams.
- Assist with the identification of training needs, and translating them into practical courses and programs. Assist with training and change management activities as required.
- Assists in the development of new Policies and Procedures to be used when the new system is implemented; consult with Subject Matter Experts, obtain approval from Project Sponsor.
- Work with the infrastructure analyst(s) to configure the hardware and to support the deployment for training, testing, and production.
- Ensure that Patient Safety will never compromised when the new system is implemented; collaborate with Subject Matter Experts, Project Sponsors and the Project Manager in observing this very important guiding principle.
- Support the delivery and production support of the new system, until it commissioned to ongoing support.
- Support the Project Manager by preparing presentations, project documentation, readiness assessments, and the coordination of key project activities to support a successful go-live.
- Escalate issues and schedule deviations that may jeopardize project success
- St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) is an equal opportunity employer and strives for equity, inclusiveness, and diversity in all our programs, practices, facilities, and people. We foster a culture of patient and staff safety where all positions comply and work in conjunction with the _Mission, Vision, and Core Values_ of SJHH._

**We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. SJHH is committed to a barrier-free recruitment and selection process - please inform us should accommodation be required at any point in the recruitment process.