IT Project Manager (Healthcare)
IT Advantage
About the role
About
A Project Manager is required to support a large scale clinical information transformation program within a complex healthcare technology environment. The role is responsible for managing multiple interdependent projects with a strong emphasis on clinical information systems, clinical workflows, and healthcare delivery standardization. This position oversees planning, execution, and delivery across technical, clinical, and operational streams, ensuring alignment with program objectives, timelines, and quality expectations. The Project Manager acts as the central point of coordination across stakeholders, including clinical leaders, healthcare practitioners, and technical teams, guiding project structure, scope definition, resource planning, and governance activities.
The role includes leading project initiation, planning, scheduling, and execution activities with a strong focus on clinical system implementation and integration. Responsibilities include managing risks, issues, and dependencies across clinical and technical workstreams, maintaining comprehensive project documentation, and ensuring accurate tracking of deliverables and clinical outcomes. The Project Manager facilitates collaboration between clinical, operational, and IT stakeholders, produces detailed status reporting, and ensures effective use of tools and methodologies to monitor performance and support decision making. The position also involves coordinating cross functional teams, supporting leadership reporting, and ensuring that all project outcomes are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with clinical transformation objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead project initiation, planning, scheduling, and execution activities focused on clinical system implementation and integration
- Manage risks, issues, and dependencies across clinical and technical workstreams
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation and accurate tracking of deliverables and clinical outcomes
- Facilitate collaboration between clinical, operational, and IT stakeholders
- Produce detailed status reporting and ensure effective use of tools and methodologies to monitor performance and support decision making
- Coordinate cross‑functional teams and support leadership reporting
- Ensure project outcomes are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with clinical transformation objectives
Qualifications
- 5 years – Project management experience managing large, cross‑functional teams, budgets, and multiple concurrent projects in a fast‑paced environment
- 5 years – Direct experience managing clinical information system or healthcare IT projects including clinical workflows, health information systems, and hospital ancillary systems
- 3 years – Experience creating project reports and maintaining decision, action, and risk logs along with experience in dynamic forecast scheduling for clinical programs
- Post‑secondary education in Information Technology, healthcare, or a related discipline or equivalent experience
- 7 years – Experience in the Canadian clinical healthcare system
Certifications
- PMP or equivalent project management certification is considered an asset
Nice to Have
- 6 years – Experience leading large scale clinical or healthcare technology implementation projects
- 6 years – Experience applying project management methodologies including agile and waterfall across full project lifecycles in clinical environments
- 6 years – Strong stakeholder engagement experience working with clinicians, healthcare leadership, and technical teams
- Experience leading hospital laboratory or clinical system consolidation initiatives
- Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills in clinical and executive settings
- 3 years – Experience working within healthcare or public sector clinical environments
- Experience using Microsoft Office 365 tools including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, and Teams
Compensation
- Pay: From $80.00 per hour
Work Location
- Remote
Skills
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