Data Systems Project Lead - Nonprofit Health & Housing Tech

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

ORCA card subsidy

Paid Time Off (34 days per year)

Retirement Plan

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

DESC is seeking a Data Systems Project Manager to lead cross‑agency efforts in identifying and scoping software/data needs across housing, behavioral health, and medical programs. You will guide stakeholder interviews, document requirements, and drive an interoperability-focused, compliant solution that reduces risk and increases efficiency.

The 12-month assignment emphasizes procurement, stakeholder collaboration, and changes management, with a focus on improving data sharing across programs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 4 years’ project management experience and/or enterprise-level procurement management.
• Proven experience coordinating diverse stakeholders.
• Strong skills in project scoping, budgeting, and document drafting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of electronic health systems and/or software.
• Expert leadership and matrix management skills, with the ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Appropriate safeguarding and handling of confidential and proprietary information.
• Ability and desire to communicate and work effectively and appropriately with staff and vendors from various backgrounds and disciplines in person, on the phone, and via email.
• Ability to relate effectively to clients displaying a wide range of unpleasant and/or bizarre behaviors.
• Demonstrated respect for diversity and commitment to developing multicultural competency sensitivity.
• Subscribe to philosophy of cooperation and continuity across programs, and of consideration and respect for clients.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the Project Steering Committee.
• Undertake interviews, shadowing and other activities with key program staff to develop a documented scope of met and unmet software/data needs across all client-facing programs.
• Work closely with IT and software development staff to understand and document existing systems for client-related documentation and data storage.
• Work closely with compliance teams to understand and document requirements for behavioral health and housing/shelter programs.
• Evaluate options and make recommendations to the steering committee.
• Run procurement processes from solicitation to negotiation.
• Collaborate on project communication and change management.
• Create an RFP (request for proposal) that outlines business needs as well as technical, compatibility and regulatory/compliance requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder coordination

Project scoping

Budgeting

Documentation

Leadership

Communication skills

Confidentiality

Cross-functional collaboration

Diversity & inclusion

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

DESC is seeking a Data Systems Project Manager to lead cross‑agency efforts in identifying and scoping software/data needs across housing, behavioral health, and medical programs. You will guide stakeholder interviews, document requirements, and drive an interoperability-focused, compliant solution that reduces risk and increases efficiency.

The 12-month assignment emphasizes procurement, stakeholder collaboration, and changes management, with a focus on improving data sharing across programs