Healthcare IT Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee a designated workstream facilitating the migration of existing patient data to the new Four Directions Warehouse for the IHS client.

• Create and sustain workstream plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, risks, issues, decisions, and documentation for change control.

• Coordinate activities with program leadership and various workstreams, including technical, clinical, functional, data, integration, analytics, and site deployment.

• Assist in data migration tasks such as requirements definition, source data evaluation, mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, testing, cutover, and post-deployment stabilization.

• Collaborate with IHS stakeholders, subject-matter experts, data owners, technical teams, subcontractors, and vendors.

• Monitor workstream readiness and oversee cross-workstream dependencies.

• Establish and uphold governance through status reports, RAID logs, decision logs, action-item tracking, and executive briefings.

• Assist in data quality and acceptance procedures.

• Lead meetings, working sessions, readiness reviews, and communications with stakeholders.

• Provide support for user acceptance testing, operational readiness, deployment planning, and issue resolution post-implementation.

• Maintain scope, schedule, and delivery commitments through effective risk, dependency, and change management.

• Carry out additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A valid PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is mandatory.

• Knowledge of both waterfall and agile methodologies is essential.

• Proven experience in managing workstream schedules, milestones, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, stakeholder communications, and executive reporting.

• Experience leading a workstream or significant functional area within a large, complex healthcare IT implementation, data modernization, or data migration program.

• Familiarity with patient data, clinical data, EHR, clinical data repositories, data warehouses, data integration, or healthcare analytics initiatives.

• Proven track record of coordinating technical teams, clinical or functional stakeholders, data owners, vendors, and subcontractors in a multi-workstream setting.

• Strong communication skills to convey technical delivery status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to business and executive stakeholders.

• Must be a U.S. citizen.

• Must successfully complete pre-employment qualifications set by Cherokee Federal.

• Eligibility to obtain a Public Trust clearance through the Government is required.

• An active Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain one is necessary for consideration.

• Must be capable of working for extended periods while seated at a desk and using a computer; occasional standing or movement around the office may be required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Up to a 6% 401(k) company match.

• Paid time off.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Prescription drug coverage.

• Basic life and AD&D insurance.

• Options for supplemental life insurance.

• Coverage for short-term and long-term disability.

• Paid holidays.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.

• Support for professional development, training, and certification.

• Voluntary benefits for accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection.