Position: EHR Project Manager (Ref: 18723)
Location: Harrisburg, PA USA, 17101
Salary: $70.00/hr.
Duration: 9 Months 8 Days – Contract
Openings: 1
Deadline: 09/30/2026
Description:
***Hybrid – onsite 2 days/week
***Local Candidates Only
We are seeking a senior-level Healthcare IT Project Manager to lead a large-scale Electronic Health Record (EHR) system implementation across multiple public health clinics and administrative bureaus. This engagement centers on transitioning legacy, paper-based charting environments to a modernized EHR solution, with a heavy emphasis on health informatics, clinical workflows, and organizational change management (OCM).
The ideal candidate must hold an active PMI PMP certification (held for a minimum of 5 years), reside locally within Pennsylvania, and have demonstrated success managing enterprise-level health IT projects through the complete project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Leadership & Governance: Direct, administer, and manage the full project lifecycle from initiation to closeout, adhering to structured PMO standards and PMI methodologies.
- EHR Deployment: Oversee the transition from paper-based health records to a centralized EHR platform across regional health centers, coordinating clinical staff, public health bureaus, and technical teams.
- Planning & Execution: Formulate comprehensive Project Management Plans, work breakdown structures (WBS), milestone schedules, and resource/budget allocations.
- Change Management (OCM): Champion organizational change management strategies to ensure user adoption, workflow realignment, and minimal disruption to ongoing clinical operations.
- Risk & Issue Tracking: Maintain and actively manage RAID+ logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), implementing proactive mitigation strategies and escalating critical blockers to executive leadership.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Coordination: Serve as the primary liaison between clinical leadership, IT operations (applications, network, security, and data management), and third-party software vendors.
- Reporting & Compliance: Monitor schedule variances and deliverables; deliver structured status updates, executive presentations, and project performance metrics.
Required Qualifications & Prerequisites
- Active PMP Certification: Must possess an active Project Management Professional (PMP) credential from the Project Management Institute (PMI) held for at least 5 consecutive years. (A copy of the active certification will be required upon submission).
- Total Experience: 7 to 9+ years of dedicated IT project management experience leading complex, enterprise-wide technical implementations.
- Healthcare Domain Expertise: Proven track record managing Health IT, health informatics, and clinical systems—specifically executing the implementation of EHR/EMR platforms from paper-based or legacy environments.
- Residency Requirement: Must currently reside in Pennsylvania.
- Work Arrangement: Must be available to report on-site to the Harrisburg office at least two (2) days per week, with occasional regional travel to health center sites for off-site stakeholder meetings.
- Change Management: Practical experience with Organizational Change Management (OCM) frameworks within healthcare or public-sector settings.
- Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional interpersonal, stakeholder management, and presentation skills across technical, clinical, and executive audiences.
Working Conditions:
- Location: Harrisburg, PA (Hybrid – 2 days/week on-site; local travel as required)
- Position Type: Contract
Required / Desired Skills
- Manage the implementation of a new EHR system, and transition from system implementation to program operations and maintenance Required – 1 Years
- Lead, plan, execute, and monitor all project activities for EHR implementation including project planning and execution, and governance. Required – 1 Years
- Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the Project Management Plan and Project Schedule. Required – 1 Years
- ‘Active’ PMP Certification from Project Management Institute (PMI) Required – 5 Years
- Manage technical initiatives with a complement of project team members throughout the various IT areas, technical complexity, and vendor involvement. Required – 7 Years
- Familiarity and experience with programs and issues related to public health Required – 1 Years
- Experience with organizational change management (OCM) with independent customers. Required – 1 Years