Interview Type: Skype *** Very long term project expect to go for 4+ years *** *** Hybrid ***
*** Candidate MUST reside in Georgia ***
Short Description:
In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing and collaborating with two vendor partners who have been engaged to reimagine the business operations and technical architecture of the Integrated Eligibility System (IES
Job Description:
The State of Georgia is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team on a contract basis as a Project Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing and collaborating with two vendor partners who have been engaged to reimagine the business operations and technical architecture of the Integrated Eligibility System (IES).
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Partner with consulting vendors to develop and administer Master Project Schedule
- Manage relationships with multiple consulting partners, ensuring effective collaboration
- Provide oversight for multiple projects within the program, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget
- Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Monitor and manage risks associated with the consulting partners performance
- Monitor financial performance against budgets and take corrective actions as needed
- Ensure that teams have the necessary resources to meet project requirements
- Engage with key stakeholders, including internal teams and agency executives
- Provide feedback and support continuous improvement
- Ensure compliance with contractual agreements / statements of work
- Ensure adoption / adherence to Program Standards
- Establish project administration framework including: Requirements Matrix, RAID Log, Project Plan, etc
- Establish and facilitate multi agency project status framework
- Assist vendor partners in inventorying and documenting the current state environment
- Assist business assessment team in orchestrating stakeholder surveys
- Partner with consulting vendor on market analysis and competitive landscape
- Partner with consulting vendor in analyzing, identifying, and recommending solutions (Interactive Voice Response, Knowledgebase, Chatbot, Document Management)
- Evaluate and recommend procurement channels for each of the recommended solutions. Ensure adherence with Georgia procurement guidelines
- Collaborate with Vendor Partners to propose an implementation roadmap
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ten years of experience with facilitating current state or application analysis sessions and documenting applications through use case process documents and workflow diagrams.
- Ten years of experience with meeting facilitation and documentation.
- Ten years of experience with creating and presenting internal and external status reports and detailed status reports suitable for presentation to the management team.
- Ten years of experience tracking work tasks and maintaining project schedules (including work breakdown structures).
- Ten years of experience with risk tracking, mitigation, and issue tracking.
- Ten years of experience with delivering projects as per agreed schedule, as per the current technical specification (within scope), and within the approved budget.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Required Skills:
- Project management experience. 10 Years
- Experience communicating project updates both orally and in written form with technical staff, executive management, and user staff. 10 Years
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) methodologies and documentation 10 Years
- Experience developing project plans 10 Years
- Experience with the use of MS Project, Microsoft Visio, Word, Excel, Smartsheet and Jira 10 Years
Highly Desired Skills:
- Experience leading data or system modernization projects in a state government domain/agency 7 Years
- Three years of experience working with health Information Technology systems 7 Years
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). 7 Years
- Three years of experience with Medicaid 7 Years