Healthcare Project Manager (Medicaid/MMIS) - Hybrid in South Carolina

Columbia, SC, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 25 minutes ago
Contract W2
Contract Corp To Corp
Contract Independent
On-site
$80/hr on W2
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Job Details

Skills

  • Project
  • medicaid
  • Healthcare
  • management
  • MMIS

Summary

Why is this position open: New position - This position is located within the Bureau of Medicaid Systems, and this position will focus on the MMIS systems, including replacement systems to be implemented
Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online
Duration of the Contract: 12 months

Possibility for Extension: Yes
Work Location: Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote). Onsite for 30-90 days - schedule will turn to hybrid at the managers discretion.
Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a SC resident or willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Oversee, coordinate, and perform operations and support activities for MMIS, Encounter Processing System, and other supporting systems. To include communication and coordination with vendors, Office of Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, etc.
  • Maintains an effective organizational team and motivates diverse staff to accomplish mission critical operations and objectives. These teams provide production support, helpdesk, interface/EDI support, and stakeholder monitoring and
  • Oversee incident and issue management. Ensures documentation, tracking, escalation and resolution for all ticket types. Ensures timely resolution of production issues.
  • Identifies and mitigates operational issues and ensures decisions and actions are well-documented.
  • Handles internal and external escalations and requests and ensures they are satisfactorily resolved, communicating issues and outcomes to appropriate personnel. Ensures work is assigned appropriately and escalations are resolved in a timely and effective manner.
  • Ensures compliance with security (CMS, SSA, etc.) and monitors all findings and recommendations to completion.
  • Works with contract monitor to ensure SLAs are set and monitored.
  • Responds promptly to inquiries.
  • Promotes workforce engagement and a safe, professional, and productive work environment for all team members
  • Implements, monitors and follows Standard Operating Procedures and alerts team when practice differs from SOP.
  • Oversees release management activities stakeholder communication, pre-implementation planning, readiness checks, and post-implementation monitoring.
  • Provide support to change management by performing and coordinating backlog grooming and maintenance and ensuring compliance with appropriate approval gates.

Required Skills (rank in order of

Importance):

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. 5+ years of equivalent experience in business/systems analysis and/or computer systems development/modification may be substituted.
  • 5+ years of prior experience managing system operations and or administrative program functions for claims and/or encounter processing in healthcare environment.
  • 5+ years of experience in project management managing system implementations or enhancements.
  • 3+ years of experience manage external vendors who provide system development.
  • Ability to provide incident management on call and after hours
  • AWS Cloud Certifications

Preferred Skills (rank in order of

Importance):

  • Prior experience managing operations of Medicaid Enterprise systems.
  • Ability to make presentations and prepare reports.
  • Knowledge of Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and MMIS domain concepts
  • Experience with ticketing software
  • Experience with writing standard operating procedures for new system implementations.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS/DUTIES:

-Excellent communication skills with staff ranging from frontline to executive management

- Ability to manage work and provide guidance

-Experience assigning/overseeing team workload

- Knowledge of system development lifecycle

-Strong documentation and process management ability

-Excellent communication skills with staff ranging from frontline to executive management

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  • Dice Id: 10480008
  • Position Id: 2026-46763
  • Posted 1 day ago
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