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
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.
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 communications 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
- People Skills
- Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to give
presentations to executive management. Strong proficiency in English is required.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF
IMPORTANCE):
- 3-5+ years of experience in project
management
- 1-3+ years of project management
in a healthcare insurance
information technology
environment.
- Project planning experience,
including effort estimation on
technical tasks and resource
allocation.