Sr Healthcare AI Project Manager

Sr Project Manager
- Healthcare AI Strategy

Overview

Job Title:

Sr Project Manager
- Healthcare AI Strategy

Location:

Hybrid
- Atlanta, GA Job Type: Independent Contract (Contractor / Non-Employee)

Start Date:

October 19th Pay Rate: $100-$170 per hour (1099/C2C) - Flexible
- Depending on Experience Contract Length: 5 months Employment in this role is conditional upon successful execution of the contract by the client. We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the enterprise-wide Artificial Intelligence Transformation Strategy discovery phase. This role operationalizes cross-functional coordination between clinical, administrative, and financial executives and advanced data science engineering teams. The core mandate is to drive structured workshops, manage project scope, and deliver an actionable, multi-year AI investment roadmap synthesizing unstructured institutional pain points.

Scope of Work:
Governance & Execution

• Establish Strategy Governance:
  Architect master plan, timeline, and track milestone delivery for 100+ executive discovery sessions.
• Manage RAID Logs:
  Track, mitigate, and resolve administrative, clinical, and operational risks, issues, and project dependencies.
• Resource Integration:
  Monitor active deployment tracking for financial capital, human resources, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
• Benchmark Coordination:
  Secure and integrate high-viability AI use cases from peer Academic Medical Centers into the final roadmap.
• Downstream Pipeline Planning:
  Organize and align workflow owners, process leads, and data SMEs for future deployment phases.
• Change Readiness Tracking:
  Document organizational adoption readiness, executive champions, cultural friction, and speed factors.

Functional Focus Verticals

• Maintain blended methodology timeline oversight across discovery streams covering:
  Clinical Operations, Nursing Workflow, Human Resources, Finance Modeling, Revenue Cycle, Supply Chain, Contact Centers, Patient Access, Digital Services, Shared Services, Admin & Legal.

Framework Execution Tiers

• Tier 1: AI Quick Wins
  - Track and deploy immediate tactical initiatives leveraging existing personnel, data, and minimal capital.
• Tier 2:
  Deep Discovery
  - Drive planning for high-ROI use cases requiring technical architecture and complex business modeling.
• Tier 3:
  Capital Pipeline
  - Coordinate enterprise-transformative projects slated for formal submission into Capital Planning.

Qualifications Required Qualifications & Operational Requirements

• Healthcare PM Expertise: 10+ years of progressive IT PM experience, driving discovery or strategy in a matrixed health system.
• AI/ML Delivery Literacy:
  Understanding of data science life cycles, structured/unstructured ingestion, NLP, LLMs, and clinical safety bounds.
• Blended Project Delivery:
  Mastery navigating both Agile/Scrum structures and traditional structured framework controls.
• Executive-Level Governance:
  Proven capacity aligning C-Suite executives, clinical chiefs, and directors around strict deliverables.
• On-Site Presence:
  Must execute face-to-face workshop facilitation inside Atlanta area client facilities as operationally required.
• Tools:
  Advanced proficiency in Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, MS Project, and visualization mapping tools (Visio, Lucidchart, Miro).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare PM Expertise: 10+ years of progressive IT PM experience, driving discovery or strategy in an Academic Medical Center.
• PMP Certification

Pay Range USD $100.00 - USD $170.00 /Hr. group :