Title: Clinical Communication Project Manager
Location: Richmond, VA
Client: VCU
Address: 7818 East Parham Road, LOC100052 Parham Road Facility, LOC100052
Start date: 10/26/2026
End Date : 04/28/2028
M-F- EST
Hybrid (3 Days Onsite and 2 days remote)
Rate: $145/hr
Required Skills
Years and Type of Required Experience:
· 7 or more years of IT project management experience, with at least 4 years in a clinical or healthcare environment.
Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
· Demonstrated experience running multi-workstream, multi-vendor programs in healthcare or large enterprise settings.
· Direct experience managing clinical communications technology programs. Not optional.
· Experience managing large-scale clinical device deployments in active patient care environments.
· Track record managing stakeholder relationships across IT, nursing leadership, clinical informatics, compliance, and executive leadership.
· Experience navigating healthcare governance: change advisory boards, technical review boards, InfoSec reviews, and HIPAA compliance touchpoints.
· Working knowledge of clinical communications infrastructure—middleware and alarm routing, nurse call systems, clinical mobile devices, VoIP, and unified communications platforms.
· Familiarity with MDM platforms (Microsoft Intune preferred) and enterprise wireless infrastructure requirements for clinical devices.
· Understanding of Epic clinical workflows, specifically how alert and alarm notifications behave within Epic and how they interact with clinical device endpoints.
· Ability to read and manage technical project plans spanning infrastructure, integration, and clinical application workstreams simultaneously.
Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in IT, Healthcare Informatics, Business, or related field.
Responsibilities
· Own the integrated program plan across all workstreams—tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, actions, and changes.
· Facilitate the Executive Steering Committee—prep, facilitation, decision capture, and follow-up executive update distribution.
· Execute the full communication plan: weekly IT leadership status, bi-weekly clinical readiness recaps, weekly project team meetings, and program health posts.
· Run formal change control end-to-end: intake, impact assessment, stakeholder approvals, decision logging, and communication
· Run bi-weekly IT and Clinical Readiness meetings with nursing leadership and clinical operations partners.
· Engage unit-level nursing leaders, educators, and super users on deployment readiness—staffing, device allocations, training, and go-live logistics.
· Coordinate with clinical informatics and Epic teams for workflow validation, training, and go-live readiness.
· Navigate InfoSec, Compliance, and Regulatory review requirements. Patient data exposure assessments, HIPAA alignment, and lock-screen policy decisions are part of this role.
· Lead weekly coordination meetings with Zebra Technologies, Connexall, and Epic implementation resources.
Hold vendors accountable to deliverables and timelines. Track commitments formally. Escalate when commitments slip
