Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager

Cherokee Federal•United States,

9d•$90,000 - $105,000•Remote

About The Position

The Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager manages an assigned workstream within the Indian Health Service (IHS) modernization program, which is migrating current patient data to a new Four Directions Warehouse. The role plans, coordinates, executes, and reports on the workstream, managing its scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, resources, stakeholders, subcontractors, and delivery readiness. It works with IHS stakeholders, technical teams, clinical and functional leads, data owners, vendors, and program leadership to deliver aligned, high-quality outcomes that support the broader warehouse migration. The position supports the workstream’s data-migration lifecycle, which may include requirements definition, source-data assessment, mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, testing, cutover, and post-deployment stabilization. It also supports data-quality and acceptance activities to confirm patient data is complete, accurate, secure, available, and suitable for its intended clinical and operational use. The Project Manager maintains workstream governance and delivery documentation, facilitates meetings and readiness reviews, communicates status, and supports user acceptance testing, operational readiness, deployment planning, and post-implementation issue resolution. This is a remote position in the United States. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and have an active Public Trust clearance or be able to obtain one through the Government. The role has no supervisory or management authority. Work is primarily performed in a climate-controlled environment, with prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer; occasional standing or moving about an office may be required.

Requirements

Active PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Familiarity with both waterfall and agile delivery.
Demonstrated experience managing workstream schedules, milestones, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, stakeholder communications, and executive status reporting.
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.
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.
Active Public Trust clearance or ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance through the Government.
Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Nice To Haves

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 relevant healthcare data standards and technologies, 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.

Responsibilities

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 technical, clinical, functional, data, integration, analytics, and site-deployment workstreams.
Support data-migration activities, 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 affecting migration, integration, availability, quality, or use of patient data in the new 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 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 and job-related duties as assigned.