Medicaid Project Manager- Only Locals to Texas

Job Title: Project Manager

Duration: 5 Months

Location: Austin, Tx

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinating duties and responsibilities with PEMS Sprint Teams and Provider Services.
• Development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated project timelines in coordination with PEMS project timelines.
• Ensuring that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules, and status updates as well as disseminating information to team members.
• Oversight and reporting of critical path dependencies between PEMS projects.
• Communicating project status, issues, and risks to department management, HHSC vendors, Provider Services and PEMS sprint teams. Developing mitigation plans as necessary.
• Communicating status of program initiatives to department management and other impacted stakeholders.
• Planning and managing efficient project meetings and documenting key decisions.
• Designing strategies to mitigate or avoid identified project risks and difficulties.

Required Skills / Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Experience in management of large-scale IT projects, including system integration, resource management, procurement transition and vendor management.
• 7+ years of Experience with Medicaid Enterprise Systems, including Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS).

• 7+ years of Ability to identify problems, evaluate alternatives, and implement effective solutions; to develop and evaluate policies and procedures; to prepare reports.
• 7+ years of Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines.
• 7+ years of Experience with Medicaid business operations.
• 7+ years of Experience overseeing the planning and execution of major projects, including facilitation and documentation of high-level critical path dependencies across multiple projects.
• 7+ years of Experience successfully leading meetings and facilitating discussions between multiple stakeholder groups, including vendors.
• 7+ years of Expertise using Microsoft Office products: Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook.
• 7+ years of Ability to establish project goals and objectives that support the state and HHS strategic plans as well as federal directives.
• 7+ years of Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.
• 7+ years of Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and coordination skills.
• 7+ years of Experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals and independently perform a variety of complicated tasks; a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
• 7+ years of Oral and written communication skills.
• 4+ years of Required certification in Project Management by a recognized project management organization.

Preferred Skills:

• 3+ years of Knowledge of Texas Medicaid programs.
• 2+ years of Experience with Texas Health and Human Services programs.
• 2+ years of Experience with provider enrollment systems.
• 1+ years of Scrum Master certification preferred.