Contractor Medicaid Project Manager

Required Skills:

• 5 Years of Ability to lead medium size, complex project(s), multiple small projects, at least one of which has medium risk and impact.(Required)
• 5 Years of Proven ability to provide regular day-to-day planning & organize the work of others, ability to multi-task & demonstrated high level of written skills.(Required)
• 5 Years of Well versed in IT, particularly relevant applications and platforms as well as agency and enterprise operational capabilities and strategies.(Required)
• 5 Years of Experience with providing project management leadership on complex projects and facilitating team involvement in resolving difficult technical issue.(Required)
• 5 Years of Proven ability to translate & communicate highly technical concepts, information, plans, & procedures to both highly technical personnel & non-IT user.(Required)
• 5 Years of Knowledge of the Project Management process, procedures, documentation, checklists, and reporting criteria
• 5 Years of Knowledge & demonstrated ability to conduct detailed planning, project testing, & perform risk assessments & their associated risk mitigation actions.(Required)
• 5 Years of Ability to design and manage technical projects using quality assurance practices to ensure the project will be implemented on time.(Required)
• 5 Years of Experience in developing reports and graphical presentations for technical and non-technical audiences.(Required)
• 5 Years of Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Project (Required)

Department: NC Department of Information Technology (NCDIT)

Description:

• This position will be assigned to the Department of Information Technology/GDAC/Health Information Exchange Authority and will work under the HIEA Business Relations Manager.
• This position has the responsibility for planning, directing and implementing large scale health care information technology projects and ensuring they are successful from a schedule, budget, quality and implementation perspective. Typical projects involve an implementation impacting the Medicaid provider community.
• The implementations have extensive visibility and significant political, monetary, and health care delivery impacts. The Medicaid projects managed are typically medium to high risk, medium - high complexity, and project portfolio budget exceeding 10M annually along with multi-million-dollar federal grants.
• This position provides technical and business expertise to ensure projects are properly planned, appropriately monitored and managed, performed in accordance with DIT standards and practices, and are completed on-time, within budget, with the desired quality, and providing the expected technical capabilities and business benefits or results. This position functions as the Business Relations Medicaid project manager.