RFR - PM-1080 - Project Manager

(RFR) - PM-1080 - Project Manager

Position Overview

Digital Health, a Shared Health service, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex healthcare information technology initiatives that support the transformation and modernization of healthcare delivery across Manitoba.

The Project Manager will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering large-scale digital health and clinical information system projects in collaboration with clinical leaders, healthcare professionals, technical teams, vendors, and senior management. The successful candidate will have extensive experience managing healthcare IT implementations, organizational change, clinical system deployments, system integration, testing, and provincial-scale initiatives.

This role requires a strong understanding of healthcare environments and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams while ensuring that technology solutions are implemented safely, effectively, and in alignment with clinical and operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of complex healthcare information technology projects.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Provide regular project status reporting to senior clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams consisting of clinical, technical, operational, vendor, and project resources.
• Coordinate the implementation, upgrade, and optimization of healthcare information systems within acute care environments.
• Lead or coordinate implementations involving the Altera Sunrise suite of products.
• Engage clinical stakeholders to define, validate, and standardize clinical and operational requirements.
• Ensure healthcare technology solutions are implemented safely and effectively within clinical environments.
• Coordinate system integration activities, including the testing and validation of healthcare information systems using Health Level 7 (HL7) standards.
• Develop and execute testing strategies, plans, schedules, and defect-resolution processes.
• Coordinate implementation readiness activities, including training, communications, workflow preparation, stakeholder engagement, and organizational change management.
• Lead organizational change activities using established change management methodologies, including Prosci ADKAR.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate large, multi-stream project teams and ensure effective communication across all project workstreams.
• Work closely with vendors and internal technology teams to ensure project deliverables meet business, clinical, technical, and operational requirements.
• Support the development and implementation of standardized clinical services and processes across healthcare organizations.
• Ensure project activities comply with applicable healthcare privacy, security, governance, and information-management requirements.
• Facilitate project meetings, steering committees, working groups, workshops, and stakeholder sessions.
• Ensure project documentation, decisions, action items, and deliverables are maintained to a high standard.
• Provide leadership during implementation, transition, stabilization, and post-implementation activities.

Required Qualifications and Certifications

The successful candidate must possess:

• Valid PMP certification or PRINCE2 Foundation/Practitioner certification.
• Valid Prosci (ADKAR) Organizational Change Management certification.
• Post-secondary education in project management, information technology, computer science, health informatics, business administration, healthcare administration, or a related discipline is preferred.

Proof of required certifications and education must be provided as part of the application.

Required Experience

Healthcare Project Management

• Minimum 10 years of experience as a Project Manager delivering information technology projects within a healthcare environment.
• Demonstrated experience reporting project progress to senior clinical management.
• Demonstrated experience implementing software solutions safely within clinical environments.
• Candidates must provide a minimum of three relevant project examples, including project title, duration, role, responsibilities, and specific deliverables.

Altera Sunrise

• Minimum 5 years of experience implementing or upgrading the Altera Sunrise suite of products within an acute care environment.
• Experience coordinating implementations with clinical resources and healthcare management.
• Demonstrated experience preparing clinical and operational staff for new or upgraded systems.
• Candidates must provide at least two relevant examples, including project duration and specific responsibilities.

HL7 and Healthcare System Integration

• Minimum 5 years of experience directly testing or coordinating the testing of healthcare information system integrations using HL7 standards.
• Experience coordinating integration testing between clinical and/or enterprise healthcare systems.
• Experience managing test planning, execution, defect resolution, validation, and implementation readiness.
• Candidates must provide at least two relevant examples, including project duration and specific responsibilities.

Provincial or State-Wide Healthcare Implementations

• Minimum 5 years of experience leading the implementation of healthcare information systems at a provincial or state-wide level.
• Experience developing operational and clinical requirements to support standardized clinical services.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate stakeholders across multiple healthcare organizations or jurisdictions.
• Candidates must provide at least two relevant examples, including project duration and specific responsibilities.

Large-Scale Clinical Healthcare Solutions

• Minimum 5 years of experience implementing large healthcare technology solutions in a clinical setting.
• Demonstrated experience managing senior-level clinical stakeholders.
• Experience leading large, multidisciplinary, multi-stream project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies, competing priorities, risks, and organizational impacts.
• Candidates must provide at least two relevant examples, including project duration and specific responsibilities.

Core Competencies

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Healthcare IT Project Management: Strong knowledge of healthcare information systems and clinical technology environments.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to effectively engage physicians, nurses, clinicians, executives, technical teams, operational leaders, and vendors.
• Clinical Change Leadership: Ability to guide organizations and clinical teams through significant technology and workflow changes.
• Communication: Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and executive-reporting skills.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead large, multidisciplinary teams through complex implementations.
• Risk and Issue Management: Strong ability to identify, assess, mitigate, and escalate project risks and issues.
• Integration and Testing: Strong understanding of healthcare system integrations and HL7-based interfaces.
• Organizational Change Management: Ability to apply Prosci ADKAR principles to support adoption and sustainable change.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills and the ability to resolve complex project, clinical, technical, and operational challenges.
• Planning and Organization: Exceptional ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, dependencies, and deadlines.

Work Location

This is a remote position within Canada. Services must be performed through remote access, and the successful resource must be located in Canada while performing the services.

Employment Type

• Full-time
• One individual resource
• Remote within Canada

Privacy and Health Information Requirements

The successful resource may be required to work within environments involving Personal Health Information (PHI). The resource must comply with all applicable privacy, security, confidentiality, information-management, and healthcare legislation and policies, including The Personal Health Information Act (PHIA) where applicable.

The specific custody or control of PHI and whether the resource performs services as an Information Manager under PHIA will be determined based on the requirements of the engagement.

Evaluation Criteria

The position will be evaluated against the following experience criteria:

Evaluation CriterionWeight10+ years of healthcare IT project management experience15 points5+ years of Altera Sunrise implementation/upgrade experience in acute care15 points5+ years of HL7 healthcare integration testing experience15 points5+ years leading provincial/state-wide healthcare information system implementations15 points5+ years implementing large-scale healthcare solutions in clinical environments10 pointsTotal Non-Price Rated Criteria70 points

Mandatory Requirements

Applications that do not meet the following requirements may be considered non-compliant:

1. Valid PMP or PRINCE2 Foundation/Practitioner certification.
2. Valid Prosci (ADKAR) Organizational Change Management certification.
3. Submission of appropriate proof of required certifications.
4. Demonstrated ability to provide the minimum required experience and project examples identified above.
5. Ability to perform the services remotely from within Canada.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior healthcare technology Project Manager with extensive experience delivering complex clinical information system implementations. They will combine strong project management discipline with practical healthcare experience, clinical stakeholder leadership, system integration knowledge, and organizational change management expertise.

Experience with Altera Sunrise, HL7 integrations, acute care environments, provincial-scale implementations, and large multidisciplinary clinical technology programs will be essential to success in this role.

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