Senior Healthcare IT Project Manager

Pay Range: $66.50hr - $71.50hr

Job Overview:

The Project Manager will interact with staff, other team members, all levels of management and internal and external organizations, including vendors performing outsourced work, in the compilation and management of information needed for project plans, portfolio/program plans, metrics, reports and project management documentation. A successful project manager in this role will embed themselves in the business being managed in order to understand the details of the projects, not just management of a project schedule.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

The consultant will act as Project Manager on multiple IT projects under the direction of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) or designee.

General Duties:

• Assists with developing business requirements.
• Building a project plan and executing to that plan.
• Managing project risks and issues.
• Ensuring that all deliverables and activities are completed with high quality and in a timely fashion.
• Reporting on project status and strategies orally and in writing.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience working with SharePoint and other typical project management tools, including Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project, Word, Access and Excel.
• Experience working with risk management, including risk triggers and managing risks to project plan tasks.
• Ability to create and document key project management documents and artifacts.
• Superb communication skills (written and oral).
• Effective listener.
• Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations; ability to get people with competing, diverse interests to work together.
• Experience in Medicaid or other healthcare claims system(s) IT projects preferred, but not mandatory.
• Must be able to manage multiple high profile, high priority projects at one time.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in project management.
• 3+ years of project management in a healthcare insurance information technology environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Medicaid or Healthcare Delivery Systems.
• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP).

Required Certifications:

• PMI Certification.

Additional Skills/Duties:

• Project planning experience, including effort estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation.
• Superb written and oral communication skills, including the ability to give presentations to executive management.
• Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations on a continuous basis.