Project Manager

Senior IT Project Manager – EHR / Health IT

Location: Harrisburg, PA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 2 days/week in Harrisburg, PA as requested
Employment Type: Contract / C2C

Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead a large-scale EHR implementation supporting State Health Centers and clinical teams. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in EHR/EMR, Health IT, Health Informatics, and Organizational Change Management (OCM), along with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex enterprise IT projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the project lifecycle from planning and design through testing, implementation, and closure.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, and deliverables.
• Manage project scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and changes using RAID logs and established PMO processes.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders, IT teams, vendors, and leadership to ensure successful project delivery.
• Track project progress and provide regular status reports, metrics, presentations, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Facilitate requirements discussions and collaborate with Application, Data Warehouse, Informatics, Networking, Security, and Service Management teams.
• Coordinate system testing, training, implementation activities, and stakeholder readiness.
• Support organizational change management (OCM) and communication activities.
• Ensure project deliverables meet defined business, technical, quality, schedule, and budget requirements.
• Identify potential issues proactively and develop mitigation strategies through resolution.
• Maintain project documentation using SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.
• Follow established HHS/DC IT PMO standards, methodologies, and procedures.
• Mentor junior project management staff when required.

Required Qualifications

• 7–9 years of relevant Project Management experience.
• PMP certification with a minimum of 5 years of PMP-certified experience.
• Proven experience leading large-scale IT implementations.
• Hands-on experience implementing an EHR/EMR system for an organization transitioning from paper-based charting.
• Strong experience with EHR/EMR, Health IT, or Health Informatics.
• Experience with Organizational Change Management (OCM) preferred.
• Strong project planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with cross-functional technical teams and external vendors.
• Must currently reside in Pennsylvania.
• Must be able to work from the Harrisburg office 2 days per week as requested.
• Willingness to participate in occasional off-site meetings at State Health Centers when required.

Preferred Background

Candidates with experience supporting healthcare, public health, government, or enterprise EHR implementations are highly preferred.

Interested candidates: Please share your updated resume and contact details for consideration.