Project Manager

Zohorecruit; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking an experienced Project Manager for a part-time contract to support a large healthcare transformation program. The role emphasizes establishing PMO governance, integrated planning, RAID management, and cross-functional coordination across business, technology, QA, and consulting teams.

The assignment runs through February 2027, averaging about 20 hours per week, with remote work and occasional travel to Chicago for milestones and governance events.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Project Manager or PMO/governance role.
• Strong expertise in governance, integrated planning, and critical-path management.
• Experience delivering executive-level status reports, dashboards, and steering committee materials.
• Hands-on experience with RAID log management, risk identification, and issue escalation and resolution.
• Solid cross-functional coordination skills across business, technology, QA, and consulting teams.
• Proficiency with project management & collaboration tools including Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow.
• Excellent documentation and knowledge-management skills with attention to auditability.
• Ability to work part-time remote across Eastern and Central time zones with occasional travel.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain project governance, PMO processes, standards, templates, and operating cadence across all program workstreams.
• Manage integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical-path activities; propagate schedule risks.
• Prepare weekly and monthly program status reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and steering committee materials.
• Own and maintain RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs; escalate critical items.
• Coordinate activities across business, technology, QA, and consulting teams to ensure timely execution of deliverables.
• Manage governance meetings, agendas, decisions, and action items; drive follow-ups to closure.
• Monitor deliverables and milestones against plan; identify gaps and propose corrective actions.
• Maintain project documentation, decision logs, action trackers, governance artifacts, and repositories.

Skills

PMO governance

Integrated planning

RAID logs

Stakeholder management

Smartsheet

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Documentation

Auditability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Business

Tools

Smartsheet

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

Chicago, United States | Posted on 10/06/2026

Our client, a leading global healthcare and consulting organization, is seeking an experienced Project Manager, which involves establishing and maintaining project governance, driving integrated planning and tracking, and enabling cross-functional coordination across business, technology, QA, and consulting teams. This is a part-time contractual role supporting a large-scale healthcare transformation program, with responsibility for PMO processes, status reporting, RAID management, and delivery governance across multiple workstreams. The position offers a flexible remote working arrangement with occasional travel for key project milestones.

This is a contractual role through the end of February 2027 for 20 hours per week. There's a requirement of occasional travel to Client's Chicago-based office. Candidates located in the greater-Chicago area preferred.

The Role:

• Establish and maintain project governance, PMO processes, standards, templates, and operating cadence across all program workstreams.
  
• Manage integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical-path activities; proactively identify and communicate schedule risks.
  
• Prepare weekly and monthly program status reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and steering committee materials covering progress, risks, issues, decisions, and key metrics.
  
• Own and maintain Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) logs; facilitate timely resolution and escalation of critical items.
  
• Coordinate activities across business, technology, QA, and consulting teams to ensure alignment and timely execution of program deliverables.
  
• Manage project governance meetings, including preparing agendas, capturing decisions and action items, and driving follow-ups to closure.
  
• Monitor deliverables and key milestones against the approved plan, identify delivery gaps, and collaborate with Project Managers and workstream leads on corrective actions.
  
• Maintain project documentation, decision logs, action trackers, governance artifacts, and project repositories to ensure transparency and auditability
  

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Project Manager or in a PMO/governance role, preferably within large, multi-workstream transformation programs.
  
• Strong expertise in project governance, integrated planning and tracking, and critical-path management.
  
• Demonstrated ability to prepare executive-level status reports, dashboards, and steering committee materials.
  
• Hands-on experience with RAID log management, risk identification, and issue escalation and resolution.
  
• Solid cross-functional coordination skills, with the ability to align business, technology, QA, and consulting teams.
  
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools, including Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow ticketing systems.
  
• Excellent documentation, organization, and knowledge management skills, with attention to auditability and transparency.
  
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive meetings, decisions, and action items to closure.
  
• Ability to work effectively in a part-time (approximately 20 hours per week) remote capacity across Eastern and Central time zones.
  
• Willingness to travel occasionally to Chicago for quarterly governance sessions or key project milestones such as UAT.
  
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.