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The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, high-impact, and聽confidential business operations projects across several domains including finance,聽contracts, staffing, and external communications. The role works closely with internal聽staff, external vendors, and other state agencies to ensure business operations alignment聽with the strategic program priorities. This role requires expertise in applying recognized聽project management methodologies.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
Project Management
路聽Serve as the project manager for all components of business operations.
路聽Develop comprehensive and time-sensitive project management plans,聽including scope, requirements, acceptance criteria, risk management,聽communication plans, change management, and detailed project schedules.
路聽Apply appropriate project management methodologies for project delivery,聽ensuring effective monitoring and control of scope, schedule, budget, and聽quality.
路聽Implement formal change management processes for identifying, documenting,聽tracking, and incorporating changes to projects.
路聽Manage project resources and team activities, providing feedback and ensuring聽project performance aligns with plans.
路聽Provide regular project reporting, including progress, risks, and blockers, for聽internal and external stakeholders.
路聽Utilize domain knowledge in finance, contracts, and staffing to support and align聽projects and processes across the organization.
Stakeholder and Vendor Coordination
Stakeholder and Vendor Coordination
路聽Coordinate closely with internal and external partners, including internal聽staffing external vendors, and other state agencies.
路聽Provide project management oversight of vendors to ensure alignment across聽business operations and contractual requirements.
路聽Facilitate efficient coordination and planning by serving as a central point of聽contact across organizations.
聽Required Qualifications
路聽Bachelor鈥檚 degree in computer science, a related IT field, business聽administration, project management, or a closely related degree from an
appropriately accredited institution, and 3-5 years of experience managing聽Medicaid or health IT technical projects; related work; or an equivalent
combination of education and experience.
路聽Demonstrated ability to develop, manage, and monitor integrated master聽schedules and project budgets.
路聽Considerable knowledge of vendor management and ensuring contract聽deliverables are met.
路聽Experience leading projects using methodologies such as waterfall, agile, or聽hybrid models.
路聽Experience using a wide variety of project management software, including聽Microsoft Project and other web-based platforms such as Jira, Asana,
Smartsheet, Workday, or Monday
Requirements
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
| Apply finance, contracts, staffing, and communications expertise to clarify requirements, surface dependencies, and advance process maturity. | Required | 7 | Years |
| Provide project management oversight of vendor implementation projects to ensure compliance with contractual requirements. | Required | 7 | Years |
| Develop integrated project plans and manage scope, schedule, requirements, risks, communication, and change control. | Required | 5 | Years |
| Provide regular project reporting, including progress, risks, blockers, and decisions for stakeholders. | Required | 3 | Years |
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