Medicaid Project Manager
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Job Location:
Columbia, IN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
29 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position: IT Healthcare Consultant Project Manager Advanced
Location: Columbia SC (Remote with occasional onsite as needed)
Agency: South Carolina Department of Health & Human Services (SCDHHS)
Duration: 12 M Contract (with potential extensions)
Public Sector/Government Experience Required: Yes
Pre-Employment Checks: Criminal Credit and E-Verify
Company / Department Culture
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 IT modernization initiatives in the agencys history. Candidates who thrive in complex high-visibility change-oriented environments will find this role both challenging and rewarding.
Scope of the Project
SCDHHS is seeking an IT Healthcare Consultant Project Manager Advanced to lead and support implementation of changes and projects related to the MMIS and associated subsystems. The consultant will evaluate agency needs current and future business processes and technical designs to recommend effective IT and non-IT solutions.
This position serves in a lead role coordinating business analysts and collaborating with multiple stakeholders including executive management business users IT teams vendors and state/federal partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of business analysts ensuring proper documentation of business processes rules and requirements.
- Coordinate standard operating procedures for system change management.
- Support requirements development analysis specification and validation.
- Translate business needs into functional IT specifications and manage updates to those specifications.
- Serve as a liaison between business units and IT ensuring alignment on solutions.
- Document and analyze data requirements workflows and relationships.
- Facilitate buy vs. build decisions and provide recommendations.
- Guide requirements interpretation for technical and testing teams.
- Identify document and escalate risks issues and dependencies.
- Support business process redesign and improvement initiatives.
- Communicate effectively with executive leadership line management and project stakeholders.
- Maintain business rules and models in a repository.
- Perform other related project duties as needed.
Required Skills (Ranked by Importance)
- 5 years experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or similar role
- 5 years experience eliciting documenting and analyzing business rules/processes
- 5 years Medicaid experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including requirements and Use Case development
- Experience conducting interviews and mining laws regulations and policy documents for business requirements
- Knowledge of formal business process documentation techniques
- Familiarity with business modeling techniques (e.g. process flow diagrams)
- Ability to effectively communicate across executive management project teams and external stakeholders
Preferred Skills
- Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in Medicaid or healthcare insurance
- Experience with MMIS (operations or project)
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project/Project Server
Education
- Bachelors degree in Technical Business or Healthcare-related field (or equivalent experience year for year substitution).
Certifications
- None required.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Construction Estimating
- Construction Experience
- PMBOK
- Visio
- Construction Management
- Project Management
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
- Contracts
