HealthCare Project Manager

Title: Clinical Communication Project Manager

Location: Richmond, VA

Client: VCU

Address: 7818 East Parham Road, LOC100052 Parham Road Facility, LOC100052

Start date: 10/26/2026

End Date : 04/28/2028

M-F- EST

Hybrid (3 Days Onsite and 2 days remote)

Rate: $145/hr

Required Skills

Years and Type of Required Experience:

·         7 or more years of IT project management experience, with at least 4 years in a clinical or healthcare environment.

 Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

·         Demonstrated experience running multi-workstream, multi-vendor programs in healthcare or large enterprise settings.

·         Direct experience managing clinical communications technology programs. Not optional.

·         Experience managing large-scale clinical device deployments in active patient care environments.

·         Track record managing stakeholder relationships across IT, nursing leadership, clinical informatics, compliance, and executive leadership.

·         Experience navigating healthcare governance: change advisory boards, technical review boards, InfoSec reviews, and HIPAA compliance touchpoints.

·         Working knowledge of clinical communications infrastructure—middleware and alarm routing, nurse call systems, clinical mobile devices, VoIP, and unified communications platforms.

·         Familiarity with MDM platforms (Microsoft Intune preferred) and enterprise wireless infrastructure requirements for clinical devices.

·         Understanding of Epic clinical workflows, specifically how alert and alarm notifications behave within Epic and how they interact with clinical device endpoints.

·         Ability to read and manage technical project plans spanning infrastructure, integration, and clinical application workstreams simultaneously.

 Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

Education:

Bachelor's degree in IT, Healthcare Informatics, Business, or related field.

Responsibilities

·         Own the integrated program plan across all workstreams—tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, actions, and changes.

·         Facilitate the Executive Steering Committee—prep, facilitation, decision capture, and follow-up executive update distribution.

·         Execute the full communication plan: weekly IT leadership status, bi-weekly clinical readiness recaps, weekly project team meetings, and program health posts.

·         Run formal change control end-to-end: intake, impact assessment, stakeholder approvals, decision logging, and communication

·         Run bi-weekly IT and Clinical Readiness meetings with nursing leadership and clinical operations partners.

·         Engage unit-level nursing leaders, educators, and super users on deployment readiness—staffing, device allocations, training, and go-live logistics.

·         Coordinate with clinical informatics and Epic teams for workflow validation, training, and go-live readiness.

·         Navigate InfoSec, Compliance, and Regulatory review requirements. Patient data exposure assessments, HIPAA alignment, and lock-screen policy decisions are part of this role.

·         Lead weekly coordination meetings with Zebra Technologies, Connexall, and Epic implementation resources.

Hold vendors accountable to deliverables and timelines. Track commitments formally. Escalate when commitments slip