- Manages projects, develops and directs technical project teams through all phases and activities of the project life-cycle process associated with major information technology systems projects that are essential to departmental missions and affect CareFirst operations on a long-term and continuing basis.
- Determines Project goals and priorities with management, program manager and/or project sponsors.
- Supports requirements of the enterprise program manager to provide necessary information and support for successful program delivery.
- Creates all project planning documentation and follows all CareFirst Defined processes.
- Manages and communicates a clear vision of the projects objectives, and motivate the cross functional project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by the entire team.
- Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities. Coordinates team activities to meet project milestones.
- Directs/leads project teams comprised of subject matter experts, technical specialists, and support staff to produce a business plan in accordance with the strategic plan, operating budget, capital planning procedures and agency guidance.
- Prepares, implements, monitors, and updates the project plan. Coordinates with the business owner and upper level management to ensure the actions are consistent with the approved plan.
- Identifies standards or requirements for change management. Participates in change control (for example, reviewing configuration change requests).
- Develops or implements information systems security and entitlement requirements and plans; and ensures appropriate product-related training and documentation are developed and made available to customers.
- *Manages resource assignment and tracking to the project plan and project schedule in coordination with the line of business resource managers.
- Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers in a matrix environment.
- Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables; mentor others in project management practices; review quality of work and manage the integration of team members work.
Manages the Project Budget with overall budget accountability for up to $4 million per year.
- Collaborates with the finance department and various functional managers to ensure project budgets are properly estimated and controlled; provides overall financial recommendations, and develop controls and measurements to monitor progress.
- Provides Finance with monthly accruals and forecasts by the due date established by Finance using the tools developed by Finance.
- Maintains current statements of work for all contractors; track and approve contractor invoices in a timely manner.
- Provides regular updates to project sponsor and stakeholders on the status of the budget.
- Documents reasons for budget excess or shortfall.
- Manages project budgets for both expense and capital against the original project budget.
- Creates Executive Summaries for all contractor resources required to complete a project.
- This position requires a four-year degree in CIS/MIS or equivalent experience of 3 - 5 years of related IT project management experience in a large scale, cross functional, multi-system environment.:
- Progressive broad-based information systems Project Management experience (which could include consulting) with state-of-the-art hardware and software systems is desirable; knowledge and implementation experience in new computing architectures and networked computing structures.
- Experience in execution of multiple related development projects simultaneously, particularly as Project Manager on systems development, with working knowledge of Systems development lifecycle and the Project Management Lifecycle.:
- Led several projects each with a total cost exceeding $5M
- Managed 15-50+ stakeholder initiatives containing simultaneous work-streams
- Built strong, cross-functional and matrixed relationships
- Been told you are a focused communicator, passionate leader and team player
- Educated and guided stakeholders while leading full Agile life cycle projects
- Organized, plan and led major initiatives using cloud-based project platforms
- Completed a degree in a CIS/MIS/related program or have significant years of experience in information system implementations
- Obtained your PMP certification
- Prior experience in a highly regulated or health-based industry (nice to have)
Additional Skills: Within a project planning and execution lens you will:
* Actively plan and manage your project holistically around schedule, scope, cost, resource health and the risks that may arise
* Collaborate with stakeholders while leading key Waterfall or Agile meetings such as kickoff, status/daily stand-ups, sprint planning, key steering and leadership reviews and more to ensure successful project delivery
* Create and own schedules lining up to program-increments and delivery milestones
* Plan and own project finances, knowing key payment dates, Cap/OpEx splits, etc.
* Proactively reporting status, scorecard creation and fulfilling project analysis requests as well as mitigating risks using critical and creative thinking
* Identifying and producing resource plans to set your project up for success
* Collaborate across function to produce go-live and post-live operational plans
* Contribute to vendor selection, procurement, contracting activities including RFP production, agreement review/revision, vendor communication and more
* Lead, motivate and mentor team members while being guided by program managers
* Produce key reports to help inform portfolio health and progress