Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Location: Ventura, CA Work Arrangement: Hybrid onsite in Ventura 3 days per week Contract Duration: 12 months Compensation: $70-100/hour, depending on experience and qualifications Long-term contract | Ventura, California | Hybrid: onsite 3 days per week

Lead the modernization of enterprise nurse call and mobile clinical communication systems for a health network in Ventura, California. This long-term contract combines complex healthcare technology delivery with clinical workflow transformation, nursing engagement, and end-user adoption. Your initial focus will be an enterprise nurse call implementation across acute care facilities. Following successful deployment, you will lead additional clinical technology and workflow initiatives across acute and ambulatory care settings. The role requires onsite collaboration in Ventura three days per week.

What you will do:

• Lead planning, deployment, testing, cutover, and adoption of nurse call and clinical communication systems, aligning delivery with clinical requirements, safety standards, and technical infrastructure.
• Partner with nursing leadership, Clinical Informatics, and frontline staff to map current and future workflows, assess change impacts, develop training strategies, and support adoption.
• Coordinate Clinical Operations, Nursing, Biomedical Engineering, Facilities, IT Infrastructure, and implementation vendors.
• Oversee integrations among nurse call platforms, clinical smartphones and devices, middleware, and EHR alert and alarm routing systems.
• Manage schedules, resources, risks, dependencies, and executive status reporting within enterprise PMO frameworks.
• Lead go-live stabilization and optimization, then transition into other priority initiatives such as patient monitoring, clinical communication, and nursing technology enhancements.

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive project or program management experience in complex enterprise environments, including at least 5 years in healthcare IT or clinical systems.
• Successful delivery of nurse call or Clinical Communication and Collaboration (CC&C) implementations in an acute hospital setting.
• Demonstrated experience leading clinical change management, nurse engagement, and workflow redesign.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Health Informatics, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Deep familiarity with modern nurse call platforms and alarm safety/fatigue mitigation strategies. Relevant platforms may include Rauland, Hillrom/Baxter, or ASCOM.
• Hands-on experience integrating clinical communications with major EHR systems and mobile communication endpoints.
• Understanding of hospital cabling, low-voltage installation, wireless coverage, and hardware integration requirements.
• Expertise with enterprise project and portfolio management tools such as ServiceNow, Smartsheet, or Planview.
• Ability to build credibility and consensus with nursing leadership, nurses, physicians, and Clinical Informatics teams.
• Ability to combine Waterfall delivery for physical infrastructure and facility cutovers with iterative approaches for software configuration, testing, and training.
• Ability to work onsite in Ventura, California, three days per week.

Preferred qualifications:

• PMP certification, strongly preferred.
• RN or other clinical background.
• Prosci or equivalent change-management certification.
• Experience with Oracle Health/Cerner or Epic, and clinical communication technologies such as Voalte, CareAware, Zebra, or Epic Rover.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.