Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Prefers Medicaid and / or Medicare experience.
• Prefers experience with acquisitions.

Requirements:

• 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.

Out of the 3 - 5 years required, at least 2 years in a combination of the following:

• 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.

Additional Skills:

• Experience with effectively manage multiple projects through the entire project life cycle using a mix of agile and waterfall methodologies
• Communication is essential, this includes the ability to communicate with IT, business and leadership
• Medicaid experience is preferred or experience with outside regulatory bodies
• It is important for this project manager to understand the constraints, demands and agility required when implementing a project that has federal or state oversight and regulation involved

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Background Check :Yes
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
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Minimum Experience (In Years) :13
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