Senior IT / EMR Project Manager

Eating Recovery Center•Denver, CO

2d•$110,000 - $130,000•Remote

About The Position

The Senior IT Project Manager leads and manages complex, high-impact technology initiatives involving multiple business functions, technology platforms, vendors, and organizational dependencies. This role is accountable for establishing the structure and discipline necessary to move major initiatives from strategy through implementation while actively managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, stakeholder alignment, and organizational readiness. The Senior IT Project Manager operates with significant independence, works directly with senior leaders, anticipates project and organizational risks, and drives timely decisions and escalation. The role may also provide project management leadership, mentoring, and guidance to other project team members.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Business, Healthcare Administration or related field- Required
4-6 years of progressively responsible project management experience, including responsibility for complex technology initiatives.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, systems, and organizational dependencies.
Advanced project leadership and execution skills, including planning, facilitation, risk management, governance, and application of project management methodologies and tools.
Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex, ambiguous, and rapidly changing initiatives with limited oversight.
Strong executive communication and presence, with the ability to communicate complex issues clearly and support timely, informed decision-making.
Strong judgment and systems thinking, including the ability to assess risk, priorities, dependencies, downstream impacts, organizational implications, and appropriate escalation.
Demonstrated ability to influence, create accountability, resolve conflict, and drive decisions and momentum across stakeholders without direct authority.
Strong financial, vendor, and commercial management skills, including management of budgets, forecasts, contracts, vendor performance, and competing resource demands.

Nice To Haves

Experience project managing EMR implementations or workstreams
Specific experience working with Netsmart EMR products (eg: myAvatar)
Healthcare technology experience strongly preferred.
PMP, CAPM, or comparable project management certification
Agile, Lean Six Sigma, or related certification

Responsibilities

Lead large, complex, cross-functional technology projects and strategic initiatives from initiation through implementation and stabilization
Translate objectives into executable plans, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and measurable outcomes.
Proactively identify, document, and manage risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, competing priorities, and project artifact details
Identify threats early and drive mitigation, decisions, and executive escalation.
Lead teams spanning IT, clinical, operational, financial, and executive stakeholders
Facilitate complex discussions and decisions across competing priorities and serve as a trusted project leadership partner.
Establish project governance, decision rights, escalation paths, and reporting
Provide concise, decision-oriented updates to senior and executive leadership and hold participants accountable for commitments and outcomes.
Lead readiness across technology, workflow, testing, training, communications, adoption, and operational transition
Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, financial, and organizational requirements.
Establish and improve project management practices, standards, tools, and templates
Mentor project coordinators and project managers and provide leadership without requiring direct reporting authority.