Senior IT / EMR Project Manager
Role summary
Seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead complex, high-impact technology initiatives. This role is responsible for managing projects from strategy through implementation, overseeing scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholder alignment. The ideal candidate will work independently with senior leaders, anticipate risks, and drive decisions. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional teams, establishing project governance, providing executive reporting, ensuring organizational readiness, and improving project management practices. A Bachelor's degree and 4-6 years of progressive project management experience are required, with a strong preference for EMR implementation experience, particularly with Netsmart products, and healthcare technology background. Certifications like PMP or Agile are a plus.
Who We Are
At ERC Pathlight, we’re on a mission to change lives—and we’re looking for people who feel called to do the same.
As one of the nation’s leading treatment providers for eating disorders and mood, anxiety, and trauma-related conditions, we bring innovative, evidence-based, and deeply compassionate care to patients across the country. With multiple locations nationwide and extensive virtual programming, we meet patients exactly where they are and help them move toward lasting recovery.
Founded in 2008 by renowned psychiatrists and psychologists, ERC Pathlight now supports more than 6,000 patients each year. And as the need for world-class mental health care continues to rise, our commitment is stronger than ever: to expand access, elevate the standard of care, and empower every patient to rebuild their life with dignity and hope.
Why Join Us
When you join ERC Pathlight, you become part of a team that shows up every day to make a real difference. You’ll work alongside passionate clinicians, dedicated support staff, and mission-driven leaders who believe in collaboration, growth, and doing the right thing—always.
Here, your work matters. Your ideas matter. You matter.
If you’re energized by purpose, motivated by impact, and ready to help transform the future of mental health treatment, you belong here.
Come build hope. Come save lives. Come grow with us.
The Senior IT Project Manager leads and manages complex, high-impact technology initiatives involving multiple business functions, technology platforms, vendors, and organizational dependencies. This role is accountable for establishing the structure and discipline necessary to move major initiatives from strategy through implementation while actively managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, stakeholder alignment, and organizational readiness.
The Senior IT Project Manager operates with significant independence, works directly with senior leaders, anticipates project and organizational risks, and drives timely decisions and escalation. The role may also provide project management leadership, mentoring, and guidance to other project team members.
Essential Duties:
Translate objectives into executable plans, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and measurable outcomes.
Identify threats early and drive mitigation, decisions, and executive escalation.
Facilitate complex discussions and decisions across competing priorities and serve as a trusted project leadership partner.
Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, financial, and organizational requirements.
Mentor project coordinators and project managers and provide leadership without requiring direct reporting authority.
Must Haves:
Bonus Qualities:
This range is dependent upon candidate's state of residence, experience and market expectations.
What We Offer
At ERC Pathlight, caring for people is our mission and that begins with caring for our own team. Your well-being matters, and our benefit program is designed to support every part of your life.
We offer competitive compensation; comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; generous Paid Time Off; Parental Leave benefits; Retirement benefits; and tuition reimbursement to help you continue growing in your career.
We also recognize that mental health is part of every person’s experience. That’s why we strive to create a workplace where you feel supported, seen, and encouraged—personally, professionally, and at home.
When you thrive, you can do your best work. And your best work changes lives.
