Project Manager (PMP)

Solü Technology Partners; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Solü Technology Partners seeks a Senior IT Project Manager with an active PMI PMP certification and a minimum of 5 years of PMP-certified experience. The role focuses on leading the implementation of an EHR system across multiple state health bureaus and clinical staff, with strong emphasis on health informatics and change management.

You will direct enterprise IT projects, develop PM Plans, manage budgets and schedules, and coordinate testing and deployment across departments.

Qualifications

• Lead the implementation of an EHR system across BCHS/BOI/BCD.
• Develop and execute plans for organizational change management (OCM).
• Manage project planning, design, testing, and deployment of health IT solutions.
• Provide weekly status updates and project metrics to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Direct and manage enterprise IT projects of strategic importance.
• Create, review, and obtain approval of the Project Management Plan and Schedule.
• Coordinate system testing and implementation activities with cross-functional teams.
• Monitor risks, issues, and RAID logs; implement mitigation strategies.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Leadership

Risk management

Education

Active PMI PMP Certification

Tools

Daptiv

SharePoint

Microsoft Teams

PeopleFluent/VectorVMS

Job description

For more than 20 years, Solü has been helping talented technologists navigate the rapidly-changing field of information technology. We take pride in working with you to offer a variety of challenging opportunities with forward-thinking clients, spanning all industries. Our employee-centric culture creates a supportive environment for our employees to grow into their full potential.

Employment Requirements

This opportunity is not open to C2C relationships or visa sponsorship.

This opportunity is for local candidates only.

Job Description

Solu is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager with an active PMI PMP certification and a minimum of 5 years of PMP-certified experience to be considered.

The primary objective of this engagement is to serve as the IT Project Manager for the Bureau of Community Health Systems (BCHS), leading the implementation of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system across 59 State Health Centers (SHCs) and clinical staff within BCHS, the Bureau of Immunizations (BOI), and the Bureau of Communicable Diseases (BCD).

This is a senior-level position requiring specialized knowledge and experience in EHRs, health informatics, and health IT. The Project Manager will have proven experience leading large-scale projects through successful implementation, along with experience developing and executing plans related to organizational change management (OCM).

• Direct, administer, manage, and facilitate an enhancement, business process reengineering, or development of a high priority, high profile, and commonwealth enterprise – wide information technology project of strategic importance.
• Accountable for activities with excess delivery cycles of 8 to 12 months.
• Manage, coordinate, and establish priorities for complete life cycle of projects including the planning, design, programming, testing, and implementation of business solutions designed to meet requirements of various departments in the commonwealth.
• Responsible for the development of estimates for the enhancement, business process re-engineering or development effort in planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation.
• Works with team leads to adjust and revise project estimates when necessary.
• Ensure new project estimates are approved by the client and agreed upon.
• Develop the detailed Project Management Plan for the enhancement, business process re-engineering or development effort.
• Accountable for the approval and sign-off of the Project Management Plan with customer representatives, and all affected project stakeholders.
• Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the Project Management Plan and Project Schedule.
• Design project plans, which identify needs and define major tasks and milestones, based on scope, resources, budget, and personnel.
• Ensure that tasks provide value and support the strategic direction of the project and meet service commitments.
• Manage and track the project progress against the project schedule.
• Monitor project milestones and phases and take corrective action as needed to ensure the project is on schedule.
• Monitor and track the project budget and advise necessary stakeholders.
• Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple work efforts across the project team.
• Notify team members of project timelines, milestones, phases, work requests, target dates, and approved executable work packages.
• Responsible for scheduling or monitor status reviews, project management inspections, and software quality assurance work product and process reviews with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Responsible for the capture and reporting of required project management metrics.
• Analyze and distribute reports on project metrics associated with work items related to improvement measures.
• Ensure all changes to scope follow processes outlined in the project Change Management Plan and are documented.
• Create, review, and obtain approval of the Communication Plan and Deliverables Matrix to ensure effective communication with all stakeholders and management.
• Prepare status reports on a periodic basis for the project team, team leads, group leads, Sponsor, and appropriate stakeholders
• Report status and recommendations to senior leadership as needed.
• Follow HHS DC IT PMO methodology to ensure consistency throughout the various IT and program areas by reviewing the project standards and procedures with project team members.
• Provide input and support for continual improvement within the HHS DC IT PMO to better service the HHS DC supported program areas.
• Mentor less experienced project management project staff to build overall understanding of project management when needed.
• Work closely with HHS DC IT Application, Data Warehouse, Informatics, Solution Management, Networking, Security and Service Management teams, as required, identifying tasks for the project schedule to support the implementation.
• Facilitate discussions between IT areas and vendors with focus on solution(s) to ensure the needs/requirements of the program area are achieved.
• Anticipate issues and proactively address them. Identify, track, and manage project risk and issues, through the use of a RAID+ Log. Develop risk mitigation strategies tracking to closure. Engage management in a proactive manner.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related issues and the resolution of issues.
• Communicate effectively with customers and software / hardware suppliers supporting the commonwealth as appropriate.
• Communicate with team members how their work assignments relate to and help achieve project objectives.
• Accountable for the final project management evaluation review with stakeholders. Manage and track the project status against the project schedule.
• Following the HHS DC Daptiv guidelines, provide weekly project updates.
• Coordinate system testing with appropriate staff resources.
• Deliver presentations as necessary.
• Ensure project compliance with HHS DC standards and procedures.
• Develop and facilitate the achievement of project service commitments.
• Ensure that tasks provide value and support the strategic direction of the project.
• Balance workload with project members’ capacity. Engaging management in a proactive manner.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct training and orientation sessions.
• Accountable for peer reviews with the appropriate project team resources.
• Coordinate and present proposals, as necessary.
• Identify and manage project risk, and develop risk mitigation strategies, and track to closure.
• Plan project specific training and orientation needs.
• Complete weekly timesheet reporting in PeopleFluent/VectorVMS by COB Friday.
• Provide weekly personal status reporting by COB Friday submitted on SharePoint.
• Following the guidelines of the HHS DC PMO, set up a project SharePoint site, and utilize Microsoft Teams for key documentation.

Qualifications

• Required: Manage the implementation of a new EHR system, and transition from system implementation to program operations and maintenance.
• Required: Lead, plan, execute, and monitor all project activities for EHR implementation including project planning and execution, and governance.
• Required: Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the Project Management Plan and Project Schedule.
• Required 5 years: 'Active' PMP Certification from Project Management Institute (PMI) for at least '5' years.
• Required 7 years: Manage technical initiatives with a complement of project team members throughout the various IT areas, technical complexity, and vendor involvement.
• Nice to have: Familiarity and experience with programs and issues related to public health.
• Nice to have: Experience with organizational change management (OCM) with independent customers.

*Solü Technology Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.