[Hiring] Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager @Cherokee Federal

Role Description

The Healthcare IT Workstream Project Manager manages an assigned workstream within the Indian Health Service (IHS) modernization program. This part of the program is migrating current patient data to a new Four Directions Warehouse environment to strengthen IHS access to accurate, timely, and usable patient information.

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, executing, and reporting on their assigned workstream. This includes managing:

• Scope
• Schedule
• Risks
• Dependencies
• Resources
• Stakeholders
• Subcontractors
• Delivery readiness

The role works closely with IHS stakeholders, technical teams, clinical and functional leads, data owners, vendors, and program leadership to ensure the workstream delivers aligned, high-quality outcomes that support the broader warehouse migration.

Qualifications

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

Requirements

• 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 healthcare data standards and technologies relevant to the assigned workstream, 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.

Benefits

• Estimated Starting Salary Range: $90,000 – $100,000
• Pay commensurate with experience.
• Full-time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided.
• Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Company Description

Cherokee Nation Integrated Health (CNIH) is a part of Cherokee Federal – the division of tribally owned federal contracting companies owned by Cherokee Nation Businesses. As a trusted partner for more than 60 federal clients, Cherokee Federal LLCs are focused on building a brighter future, solving complex challenges, and serving the government’s mission with compassion and heart.