Senior Project Director – Digital Health Development

We are seeking a Senior Project Director to provide portfolio‑level direction, strategic coordination, and project oversight across multiple interdependent initiatives within a digital health ecosystem. The Director acts as a central integration point between stakeholders, program leadership, delivery teams, shared services partners, and vendors.

Position Summary

Reporting to executive leadership, the Senior Project Director oversees complex, multi‑year digital health initiatives and provides strategic oversight across a coordinated portfolio of projects. The Director ensures alignment across clinical, business, technical, and vendor workstreams while driving program progress, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio & Program Leadership

• Provide senior oversight and integration across multiple digital health initiatives
• Develop and maintain coordinated portfolio plans, roadmaps, dependencies, and workstream alignment
• Ensure business, clinical, and technical deliverables remain aligned with organizational strategies

Strategic Development & Analysis

• Provide strategic input on policy, investment, and program direction related to digital health modernization
• Support development of Statements of Work, contract language, pricing structures, and procurement artifacts
• Ensure solution designs and workflows support interoperability, data quality, clinical utility, and adoption

Vendor & Contract Management

• Manage relationships with technology vendors and shared services partners
• Oversee contract performance, deliverables, amendments, extensions, and compliance against requirements
• Monitor vendor progress, escalate issues, and drive resolution to maintain schedule and quality

Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead engagement with clinicians, professional associations, partners, and regulatory bodies
• Facilitate working groups, steering committees, and multi‑stakeholder forums
• Provide direction and support for change management, communications, and adoption strategies

Governance, Reporting & Oversight

• Prepare executive briefings, presentation materials, project artefacts, and progress updates
• Report on status, risks, mitigation strategies, resource allocations, and interdependencies
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, standards, and governance structures

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading negotiation, development, and management of complex, multi‑vendor IT solutions at enterprise scale, including accountability for contract value, vendor coordination, performance management, risk mitigation, and delivery outcomes (10 years)
• Experience in roles requiring knowledge of clinical and technological aspects of health care at enterprise level (8 years)
• Experience in strategic planning of enterprise‑scale health information technology systems, including setting long‑term direction, aligning initiatives to business and clinical priorities, and guiding the evolution of complex digital health environments (8 years)
• Experience with clinical application integration to support the exchange of patient information using interoperability standards (6 years)
• Senior leadership experience working with executive leadership to define, approve, resource, and govern large, multi‑year projects or initiatives, including the development of roadmaps, governance structures, briefing materials, and business cases (10 years)
• Experience applying knowledge of clinical concepts and care processes to inform the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of enterprise‑scale clinical information systems (8 years)
• Experience in oversight of portfolio governance and the development of portfolio management processes for large, complex healthcare initiatives (8 years)
• Experience leading healthcare portfolios or multiple large‑scale initiatives of similar size and complexity within complex health system environments (10 years)
• Experience with interoperability standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR) in the context of enterprise clinical system integration (3 years)
• Experience working within large public‑sector or comparable health organizations (10 years)