IT - SCDHHS - IT Healthcare Consultant - Project Manager - Advanced
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Job Description
General Subject Matter Expertise as it relates to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance experience (project or operations)
Skill
MMIS experience (project or operations)
Skill
Microsoft Office Project/Project Server
The South Carolina Department of Health & Human Services (SCDHHS) is the State Medicaid Agency for South Carolina. The Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) Replacement and Member Management Replacement Systems projects are the largest Information Technology projects.
The IT Healthcare Consultant - Project Manager - Advanced will be assigned to projects for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) the Medicaid Agency for SC.
Candidates who enjoy working on complex change-oriented projects will find this position attractive.
SCDHHS is seeking an IT Healthcare Consultant - Project Manager - Advanced to assist with implementation of changes as well as small-to-large projects for the MMIS and related subsystems
IT Healthcare Consultant - Project Manager - Advanced
The principal duties of this position are to evaluate agency needs as-is and to-be business processes and technical designs to provide analysis and advice on strategies for information technology solutions and non-technical solutions. The IT Healthcare Consultant - Project Manager - Advanced will serve in the lead role to coordinate a team of business analysts responsible for providing detailed analysis and documenting business processes and requirements.
Specific duties include but are not limited to:
Coordinate standard operating procedures for system change efforts with a team of business analysts.
Ensure change classification evaluation and prioritization occurs according to procedures associated with relevant systems.
Provide support and guidance to business analyst team members to facilitate the requirements development and management processes.
Serves as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support as well as an understanding of the IT organizations systems and capabilities.
Analyzes business partners operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
Assists in business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology.
Translates high level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT organization on the direction of the business.
Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.
Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprises competitive edge.
Requirements development execution including the elicitation analysis specification and validation.
Documenting and analyzing agency business processes and recommending improvements.
Documenting and analyzing data requirements and relationships.
Participating in the requirements management processes including change control version control tracking and status reporting and traceability.
Providing requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and test teams.
Proactively identifying risks issues and action items leading to possible solutions.
Interacting with internal and external organizations (i.e. vendors State and Federal government agencies State providers and beneficiaries and other stakeholders).
May make recommendations for buy versus build decision.
Research business rules requirements and models.
Maintain business rules requirements and models in a repository.
Other project-related duties.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
5 years experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties
5 years experience eliciting mining and documenting business rules processes
5 years of Medicaid experience
Superb written and oral communications skills including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws regulations and policy documents.
Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
Understanding of business modeling techniques including the use of graphical process flow software
Ability to effectively communicate to executive management line management project management
and team members.
PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF
IMPORTANCE):
General Subject Matter Expertise as it relates to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance experience (project or operations)
MMIS experience (project or operations)
Microsoft Office Project/Project Server
Bachelors degree in a technical business or healthcare field. Experience in lieu of a
degree year by year is acceptable
Employment Type
Full-time
