IT Project Manager (PMP), Rural Health Transformation Program

This is a remote position.

Job Title: IT Project Manager (PMP), Rural Health Transformation Program Work Arrangement: Fully remote within the United States; full time, Monday to Friday, 7:45 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern Time (client working days only; no client holidays) Location: Remote, United States (Eastern Time schedule) Employment Type: W-2, full time, 40 hours per week Pay Rate: $70/hr (W-2) Engagement Type: Contract, anticipated start December 2026; duration tied to the implementation of the program's IT solutions (end date to be confirmed by the client) Final Interview: Client interview by phone or video Position Summary Dhaka Technologies Limited Company is hiring an IT Project Manager on behalf of the client, a state government health and human services agency.

The agency is responding to the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, a five-year funding initiative to make care more accessible, higher quality and better tailored to rural communities, and anticipates a series of IT focused missions in support of it.

The Project Manager works within the state's Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), follows its hybrid project lifecycle (Agile practices during implementation), takes direction from the EPMO Portfolio Manager, and manages one or more program projects day to day alongside the state project team, program sponsors, governance committees and implementation vendors.

Preference is given to candidates who have managed similar health program or federally funded initiatives and who already work the way a state EPMO expects.

Key Responsibilities

Create and maintain the project schedule in the EPMO-prescribed tool (activities, dependencies, milestones, start and end dates, resources, percent complete), updated weekly through closeout, and take part in weekly updates to the implementation vendor's master schedule. Deliver weekly project status reports in the state's project management tool. Create and maintain risks and issues in the state's tool, recomm