Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager

Cherokee Federal

Almont (CO)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K

Job summary

Cherokee Federal is seeking a Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager to oversee a data-migration workstream within the IHS modernization program. You will plan, coordinate, and report on the workstream, coordinating with stakeholders, vendors, and clinical leads to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes.

Responsibilities include managing schedules, risks, dependencies, and governance while supporting data-quality and acceptance activities for the Four Directions Warehouse migration.

Qualifications

Active PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required.
Experience managing a workstream or major functional area within a large healthcare IT project.
Experience supporting patient/clinical data, data warehouses, or data integration initiatives.
Proven ability to communicate status, risks, and decisions to executives and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Manage an assigned workstream supporting migration of patient data to the new Four Directions Warehouse for IHS.
Develop and maintain the workstream plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, and change-control docs.
Coordinate activities with program leadership and other workstreams to ensure alignment.
Support data-migration activities including requirements, mapping, validation, testing, and cutover.
Track readiness and manage cross-workstream dependencies affecting data availability and quality.
Establish workstream governance, including status reporting and executive briefings.
Support user acceptance testing, deployment readiness, and post-implementation issue resolution.

Skills

PMP Certification

Workstream Management

Healthcare IT

Data Migration

Stakeholder Communication

Governance

Education

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

As required by our governmental client, this position requires being a US Citizen AND must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance ***

As required by our governmental client, this position requires being a US Citizen AND must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance ***

The Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager manages an assigned workstream within the Indian Health Service (IHS) modernization program. This part of the program is migrating current patient data to a new Four Directions Warehouse environment to strengthen IHS access to accurate, timely, and usable patient information.

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, executing, and reporting on their assigned workstream. This includes managing scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, resources, stakeholders, subcontractors, and delivery readiness. The role works closely with IHS stakeholders, technical teams, clinical and functional leads, data owners, vendors, and program leadership to ensure the workstream delivers aligned, high-quality outcomes that support the broader warehouse migration.

Compensation & Benefits

Estimated Starting Salary Range for Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager: $90,000 – $100,000

Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other possible benefits as provided. Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager Responsibilities Include

Manage an assigned workstream supporting migration of current patient data to the new Four Directions Warehouse for the IHS client.
Develop and maintain the workstream plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, risks, issues, decisions, and change-control documentation.
Coordinate workstream activities with program leadership and other technical, clinical, functional, data, integration, analytics, and site-deployment workstreams.
Support data-migration activities within the assigned workstream, including requirements definition, source-data assessment, mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, testing, cutover, and post-deployment stabilization, as applicable.
Coordinate with IHS stakeholders, clinical subject-matter experts, data owners, technical teams, subcontractors, and vendors to define priorities, resolve issues, and maintain delivery alignment.
Track workstream readiness and manage cross-workstream dependencies that affect the migration, integration, availability, quality, or use of current patient data in the new Four Directions Warehouse.
Establish and/or maintain workstream governance, including status reporting, RAID logs, decision logs, action-item tracking, and executive briefings.
Support data-quality and acceptance activities to verify that current patient data is complete, accurate, secure, available, and fit for intended clinical and operational use.
Facilitate workstream meetings, working sessions, readiness reviews, and stakeholder communications to drive timely decisions and accountability.
Support user acceptance testing, operational readiness, deployment planning, and post-implementation issue resolution for the assigned workstream.
Maintain program scope, schedule, and delivery commitments through disciplined risk, dependency, and change management.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager Experience, Education, Skills, Abilities requested

Required Qualifications

Active PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required and familiarity with both waterfall and agile delivery.
Experience managing a workstream or major functional area within a large, complex healthcare IT implementation, data modernization, or data-migration program.
Experience supporting patient-data, clinical-data, EHR, clinical data repository, data warehouse, data integration, or healthcare analytics initiatives.
Demonstrated experience managing workstream schedules, milestones, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, stakeholder communications, and executive status reporting.
Experience coordinating technical teams, clinical or functional stakeholders, data owners, vendors, and subcontractors in a multi-workstream environment.
Strong ability to communicate technical delivery status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to business and executive stakeholders.
U.S. citizenship, pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal and must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance through the Government.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting IHS, tribal health, federal healthcare, or other government health programs.
Experience supporting patient-data migration, healthcare data warehouse implementation, clinical data repositories, data conversion, or data integration.
Knowledge of healthcare data standards and technologies relevant to the assigned workstream, such as HL7, FHIR, DICOM, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, clinical data models, or data-quality tools.
Experience with data validation, reconciliation, clinical/business acceptance, testing, deployment readiness, or cutover planning.
Experience supporting imaging, radiology, CT/X-ray, DICOM, clinical analytics, or other specialized healthcare data domains.
Experience supporting large EHR implementation, modernization, interoperability, or clinical systems integration programs.