Clinical Research Project Manager, Consultant

A leading university healthcare EPMO looking to add a proven Clinical Research PM. Apply today to learn more about this long term consulting PM project!

Qualified candidates preferred to have: PMP, extensive experience within University driven healthcare system or major EHR healthcare system, and oversee complex health data innovation and digital transformation initiatives, collaborating with clinicians, researchers, technical teams, and executive stakeholders to deliver impactful technology solutions that improve patient care and operational outcomes.

Initial 12 month remote Project Management consulting project.
W2 or C2C options to consider.
Top tier W2 benefits
Dedicated consulting concierge team in place to support weekly timesheets and support through out contract/

Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Health IT Project Manager with strong skills in eliciting and documenting business and technical requirements, conducting thorough project analysis, and driving alignment across diverse stakeholder groups. The ideal candidate will have a solid foundation in project management practices within healthcare environments, with a bonus for hands-on experience managing technical projects involving AWS services, machine learning, or predictive analytics.
This role will oversee complex health data innovation and digital transformation initiatives, collaborating with clinicians, researchers, technical teams, and executive stakeholders to deliver impactful technology solutions that improve patient care and operational outcomes.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Lead end-to-end project management for IT initiatives in a healthcare IT setting.
• Facilitate discovery sessions and stakeholder interviews to elicit and document clear, actionable requirements.
• Perform gap analysis, impact analysis, and translate business needs into functional specifications.
• Develop project charters, workplans, status reports, and other PMO artifacts.
• Manage scope, timelines, risks, and resources across matrixed teams.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal IT to drive timely implementation.
• Communicate effectively with executive leadership, providing transparent updates and recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of clinical trials research and associated processes
• Research budget management experience
• Experience with clinical data research projects and/or working in an academic medical environment.
• Familiarity with interfacing HL7 Clinical Document. Architecture (CDA) and/or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
• PMP or similar certification.
• Experience with ServiceNow or enterprise project management systems.
• Familiarity with HIPAA, IRB, and healthcare data privacy standards.
• Prior project management work with AWS cloud services, machine learning, or predictive analytics platforms is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Under the direction of the Portfolio Manager the successful candidate will:
• Participate in both strategic planning and tactical execution of clinical research data projects in analysis and implementation; facilitate communications between project partners, clinical researchers and data scientists as they relate to supporting research data acquisition and utilization issues and provide oversight and direction to project team members.
• Provides program support for BioData Catalyst by leading project management planning, execution, reporting, and close out activities as necessary to ensure the program meets approved program strategies, milestones, and deliverables
• Provides coordination, management, and oversight of project management activities for the Health Data Informatics and Research team in a matrixed, cross-functional environment
• Ensures program compliance with all policies and procedures related to project management, contract relations, purchasing, and fiscal planning
• Assists in the preparation of program reports, including monthly updates and quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports
• Coordinates meeting management support for the assigned projects and programs, including drafting agendas, taking meeting notes/minutes and recording and monitoring action items for initiative committees, sub-committees, peer review panels, external advisory panels, scrum teams, program reviews, and other stakeholders as needed
• Communicates effectively with senior-level leads within the Health System, School of Medicine, and the University to compose both business and scientific documents and ensure smooth operations of the Program
• Maintain all status related communications with internal and external stakeholders (i.e., affected parties) Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Experience leading a variety of multi-person projects simultaneously and comfortable switching gears depending on business requirements.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders, including highly collaborative multi - PI grants, faculty, academic leadership, and staff.
• Experience managing diverse teams including resources with divergent skills (e.g: technical, clinical, analytics) to achieve harmonized research data provision supporting network or individual study objectives.
• Expertise leading teams responsible for cross-platform research data acquisition and management.
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized.
• Proficiency with project management tools, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Teams, MS Visio
• Virtual/cloud based data management and administration including regulated security and privacy configurations required for research (IRB, HIPPA..)
• Compliance and information security as relations to
• Deep understanding of complex EMR, Research and Public Health system workflows with a focus on data generation and exchange.
• Familiarity with healthcare data organization, storage, cataloging, and analytics
• Familiarity with complex research data management tools, standards, and techniques that support various modes of data ingestion and curation.
• Bonus: familiarities with ontologies and/or coding systems such as ICD, CPT, LOINC and MedDRA.
• Bonus: Familiarity with the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP), Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) tooling, and Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap).
• Bonus: Experience with Cerner Electronical Medical Record System
• Bonus: Experience with Amazon Web Services and their offerings