Centurion is proud to be a leading provider of comprehensive healthcare services to correctional facilities, state hospitals, and community mental health centers nationwide.
We are currently seeking a Project Manager to join our IT team located in Sterling, Virginia.
The Project Manager III will manage a diverse portfolio of cross-functional initiatives spanning product development, customer implementations, operations, sales, marketing, compliance, finance, legal, and business development. This individual will establish project governance, monitor progress, mitigate risks, facilitate stakeholder communication, and drive accountability to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives.
The ideal candidate is a skilled project manager with exceptional organization, communication, and problem-solving skills who thrive in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment. Success in this role requires the ability to manage multiple priorities, influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization, and translate strategic vision into actionable plans and measurable results. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact across nearly every aspect of the company in an entrepreneurial environment.
- Lead and manage cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives from initiation through completion.
- Partner with executive and business stakeholders to define project objectives, scope, success criteria, timelines, budgets, and resource requirements.
- Develop and maintain project charters, work plans, roadmaps, milestones, budgets, and resource plans.
- Gather and validate business requirement, define project scope, and develop detailed project plans that align stakeholder expectations with organization objectives.
- Monitor project progress, performance metrics and key deliverables providing regular updates to leadership and stakeholders ensuring tasks are completed on schedule and within scope.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and obstacles while proactively driving resolution and escalation when necessary.
- Prepare and maintain project documentation, status reports, and executive dashboards.
- Serve as the central point of coordination among executive leadership, department leaders, product team and operational stakeholders.
- Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with department managers to manage project initiatives including Product & Development, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Legal & Compliance, and Human Resources departments
- Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, and executive reviews.
- Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and decisions clearly and effectively to stakeholders at all levels of the organization, ensuring accountability across teams.
- Partner with Product Management to facilitate backlog prioritization, release planning, and roadmap execution, ensuring alignment between business priorities, customer needs, and strategic objectives.
- Develop, maintain, and optimize project resource and capacity plans across multiple concurrent initiatives; monitor resource utilization, identify constraints and conflicts, prioritize assignments based on organizational objectives, and collaborate with leadership to ensure appropriate staffing levels and effective allocation of project resources.
- Own ongoing project budget management activities, including monitoring expenditures, tracking actual costs against approved budgets, forecasting financial performance, identifying cost-saving opportunities, evaluating budget variances, and providing regular financial status reporting to leadership and key stakeholders to ensure effective fiscal management and project success.
- Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of Project Management processes, methodologies, governance standards, and tools to support PMO maturity and improve organizational project delivery performance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Healthcare Administration, Public Administration, or related field.
- Seven (7)+ years of project management experience leading cross-functional business initiatives within the Healthcare Technology industry.
- Four (4) or more years of experience leading product development, application implementation, and technology transformation projects.
- Experience managing product development, SaaS, healthcare technology, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Health Information Exchange (HIE), Interoperability, and other healthcare IT Initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience delivering projects involving health integrations, interoperability standards, including APIs, HL7, FHIR, EHR platforms or other clinical or administrative data exchange technologies.
- Project management professional certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent project management certifications.
- Experience supporting organization change management, stakeholder engagement, user adoption, training and workflow transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, competing priorities, budgets, resources, risks and project dependencies across cross-functional teams.
- Experience presenting project status, risks, recommendations, and strategic initiatives to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
- Knowledge of healthcare operations, clinical workflows, health plan administration, or regulated healthcare environments.
- Knowledge of healthcare regulations, including HIPAA and healthcare privacy requirements.
- Exceptional organizational, communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven ability to build collaborative relationships, influence outcomes, and drive consensus across all levels of an organization.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Microsoft Planner, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, and Microsoft 365.
We offer excellent compensation and comprehensive benefits for our full-time team members, including:
- Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Continuing education benefits
- And much more
Skills Required
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Project Manager
- Demonstrable success managing projects within the health or government sectors
- Experience developing and implementing project plans, timelines, and budgets
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Proficiency in project management software such as MS Project or Smartsheet
- Valid Project Management Professional certification or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or an IT-related field
- Experience working with government agencies and healthcare providers
What We Do
Centurion Health is a national leader in correctional healthcare, providing comprehensive medical, dental, and behavioral health services to incarcerated populations and other government agencies across numerous states.
