IT Project Manager with State or Federal Health experience

Project Manager - Open Position

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of the project portfolio process and drive the integration and alignment for the project management process
• Accountable and owner of several key PMO processes including management of program scope and schedule, project status reporting, executive leadership reporting, dependency management, issue and risk management, and project communications.
• Build working relationships at all levels of the organization to partner with and effectively communicate with cross-functional groups as required
• Foster a climate of open communication, engagement and ownership within the team
• Accountable for ensuring that deliverables from business and technology partners are produced and approved according to multiple project schedules. This includes requirement documents, functional and technical design documents, test plans, etc.
• Drives project workstreams, developing, executing, tracking, and monitoring plans, resolving blockers, and ensuring ongoing alignment with program priorities
• Works collaboratively with business leaders, project leaders, and impacted external stakeholders, coordinating efforts across those groups to analyze and assess readiness for change.
• Assures compliance with CMS and FNS requirements
• Coordinate and communicate stakeholders as needed to set and manage expectations, highlight and resolve issues and ensure an overall excellent experience working with the PMO team
• Represents project in executive-level presentations in various project governance and inter-departmental meetings.
• Maintain a project schedule ensuring task specific project schedules are added to the integrated master scheduled.
• Accountable and responsible that all relevant processes are executed and in compliance for the team and organization
• Responsible for ensuring all business readiness is implemented including any necessary training and updates to business processes.
• Ensure clear identification of goals and the benefits to be realized as part of the Project Portfolio commitment to Business goals and objectives
• Lead periodic reviews of continuous projects portfolio, business benefits realized, key performance indicators and gaps
• Advanced ability to identify, develop and quantify any required corrective action plans
• Advanced ability to ensure that effective project controls are in place to monitor project or program performance
• Ability to work with business partners and program management team on development of LTC practices, policies, guidelines, and operational processes.
• Effective communication to all levels or the organization, including effectively presenting information and responding to questions or complex inquiries from groups of employees, managers and internal customers, influencing leadership and facilitation skills and working at functional and strategic levels simultaneously
• Monitor and direct day-to-day operations of the assigned tasks to ensure that policies and procedures are being followed, that contract and client goals and objectives are met, and that services and projects are being accomplished effectively and efficiently.
• Drives execution discipline across teams ensuring deviations to standards and metric targets have clear action plans and follow-ups
• Develops project schedules, cross-functional deliverables, and detailed timelines, as well as identifies and manages project priorities and cross-project dependencies
• Accountable for and leads other project managers on highly complex project.

Ensures the project is successful from start to finish.

Responsibilities:

1. Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a thorough understanding of business systems and industry requirements.

2. Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operation time, and form of desired results. Includes analysis of business and user needs, documentation of requirements, and translation into proper system requirements specifications.

3. Provides consultation on complex projects and is considered to be the top level contributor/specialist of most phases of systems analysis, while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience;

A current Project Management Professional Certification is highly desired

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of project portfolio process
• Own PMO processes: scope, schedule, status reporting, risk, and communications
• Build relationships across organization and communicate with cross-functional groups
• Foster open communication, engagement, and ownership within team
• Ensure business and technology deliverables are produced and approved per schedules
• Drive project workstreams, resolve blockers, and align with program priorities
• Coordinate with business leaders and stakeholders to assess change readiness
• Assure compliance with CMS and FNS requirements
• Manage stakeholder expectations and resolve issues for excellent PMO experience
• Represent project in executive-level presentations and governance meetings
• Maintain integrated master schedule with task-specific project schedules
• Ensure processes are executed and compliant for team and organization
• Implement business readiness including training and process updates
• Identify goals and benefits for Project Portfolio commitment to business objectives
• Lead periodic reviews of portfolio, benefits realized, KPIs, and gaps
• Identify, develop, and quantify corrective action plans
• Ensure effective project controls monitor project or program performance
• Develop LTC practices, policies, guidelines, and operational processes
• Communicate effectively at all levels and influence leadership
• Monitor day-to-day operations to ensure policies and goals are met
• Drive execution discipline with clear action plans for deviations
• Develop project schedules, deliverables, timelines, and manage dependencies
• Lead other project managers on highly complex projects

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