IT Director Search Kicks Off for Kootenai Health

We are conducting a nationwide executive search to fill a Director, IT Project Program Management for Kootenai Health.

About Kootenai Health

Kootenai Health is comprised of several facility locations that provide a comprehensive range of medical services to patients in North Idaho, eastern Washington, Montana, and the Inland Northwest.

The main Kootenai Health campus in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, includes a 330-bed community-owned hospital and nearly 300 employed providers and more than 600 on medical staff across 25+ clinical specialties from family medicine, cardiology, orthopedics, surgery, and more.

Kootenai Health is a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network (MCCN) a national network of organizations that share a commitment to better serving patients and their families. 

Kootenai Health is the largest employer in North Idaho, with over 3,700 employees, 75% of whom are women.

IT Director Search Highlights

Kootenai Health’s IT Director of Project and Program Management will manage daily project, program, and portfolio management teams, governances, and project structure and process to support Kootenai’s full portfolio of application and infrastructure services.

This is a senior leadership role that reports to the CIO and manages a 5-person team focused on the successful implementation and enhancement of designated Epic applications, modules and third-party applications, as well as infrastructure and security services. Most recently this totaled about 200 projects annually. The Director, IT will also participate in director-level on-call rotations.

Kootenai Health requires all staff members to have up-to-date COVID vaccinations. This position can be 100% remote with regular on-site campus meetings.

A full job description and an application are available here.