Project Manager

Job description

Listing Info
NY-SOH (New York State of Health) project has deployed and continues to maintain NY State’s Health Insurance Exchange and Infrastructure. This project continues to meet NY State’s objective in delivering a Health Exchange per Federal and state compliance and regulation.  The solution will determine benefit eligibility, compare and choose qualified health plans, apply for federal and state benefits, provide account management, and facilitate communication between members, providers, and agencies.

PMO Change and Risk Lead: Provides and manages the NYSOH change and risk management.  Provides assistance to the NYSOH Change and Risk Manager and project managers.  Also supports the change management and invoice process.

Work Location: Rensselaer, NY. Must submit to CSC standard background investigation.

Essential Job Functions

• Provides and manages the NYSOH change and risk management.
• Provides assistance to the NYSOH Change and Risk Manager and project managers.
• Supports the change management and invoice process.
• Creates and implements project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for medium to large sized projects of moderate complexity. Prepares statements of work for project engagements and monitors performance to ensure that project commitments meet contractual specifications. Determines need for and impact of changes in scope of project and makes recommendation based on determinations. Gains concurrence, approval, and consensus from stakeholders regarding the various project aspects, adjusts accordingly.
• Identifies appropriate resources and staffs projects. Organizes project team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives. Acts as the point of contact with client project management.
• Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing project deliverables. Ensures schedule and budget are met. Identifies need for changes and revises within established guidelines/policies as appropriate.
• Performs ongoing review of project status; identifies project risks. Develops, recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions as approved and as appropriate.
• Interfaces with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to projects such as but not limited to, technical requirements, business requirements and schedule. Determines when additional resources are needed and implements same.
• Manages mid-level management clients, company management and project team expectations for agreed upon project performance by obtaining and providing project metrics. Recommends and implements changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics.
• Develops and makes presentations that could lead to expanded business opportunities. Participates in proposal efforts and sales calls to enhance opportunities for future business deals with client.
• Oversees assigned personnel for projects. Assigns work and provides direction with regard to timeliness and completion of project objectives. Addresses performance issues within prescribed guidelines. Provides performance input upon completion of project.
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, engineering or related field preferred
• Six or more years of project management experience
• Experience working with project management methodology such as Catalyst including budget development, project planning, control and assurance methodologies, project management tool software and finance and accounting concepts and practices
• Experience working with productivity and methodology tools that increase project efficiency and effectiveness
• Experience working with administrative processes
• Experience working with client vision, business objectives, and critical success factors
• Experience working with delivery assurance principles and appropriate procedures relevant to area
• Experience working with techniques and approaches related to the architecture, development, integration, and deployment of project phases
  

Other Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience managing projects for a State agency; NY Department of Health experience is a plus
• Experience managing projects with leveraged resources model
• Experience managing releases that contain a collection of changes that may or may not be related
• Experience with Healthcare, specifically ACA is a plus
• Experience managing and controlling scope, cost, and schedule
• Experience managing ACA related projects is a plus
• Good personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Strong communication skills
• Good organizational skills
• Good creative, analytical and problem solving skills
• Good interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members, clients and company management
• Good human relations and leadership skills to train, guide, motivate and mentor the work of project personnel
• Basic negotiation skills to participate in new business development opportunities
• Skilled in estimating and common project management desktop tools
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and switch between tasks quickly
• Ability to manage medium sized projects
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and change
• Ability to create and maintain formal and informal networks