Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities:

•         Partner with consulting vendors to develop and administer Master Project Schedule
•        Manage relationships with multiple consulting partners, ensuring effective collaboration
•        Provide oversight for multiple projects within the program, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget
•        Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies
•        Monitor and manage risks associated with the consulting partners' performance
•        Monitor financial performance against budgets and take corrective actions as needed
•        Ensure that teams have the necessary resources to meet project requirements
•        Engage with key stakeholders, including internal teams and agency executives
•        Provide feedback and support continuous improvement
•        Ensure compliance with contractual agreements / statements of work
•        Ensure adoption / adherence to Program Standards
•        Establish project administration framework including: Requirements Matrix, RAID Log, Project Plan, etc
•        Establish and facilitate multi-agency project status framework
•        Assist vendor partners in inventorying and documenting the current state environment
•        Assist business assessment team in orchestrating stakeholder surveys
•        Partner with consulting vendor on market analysis and competitive landscape
•        Partner with consulting vendor in analyzing, identifying, and recommending solutions (Interactive Voice Response, Knowledgebase, Chatbot, Document Management)
•        Evaluate and recommend procurement channels for each of the recommended solutions. Ensure adherence with Georgia procurement guidelines
•        Collaborate with Vendor Partners to propose an implementation roadmap 

Minimum Qualifications:

•          Ten years of project management experience.
•        Ten years of experience communicating project updates both orally and in written form with technical staff, executive management, and user staff.
•        Ten years of experience with facilitating current state or application analysis sessions and documenting applications through use case process documents and workflow diagrams.
•        Experience with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) methodologies and documentation.
•        Ten years of experience with meeting facilitation and documentation.
•        Ten years of experience with the use of MS Project, Microsoft Visio, Word, Excel, Smartsheet and Jira.
•        Ten years of experience developing project plans.
•        Ten years of experience with creating and presenting internal and external status reports and detailed status reports suitable for presentation to the management team.
•        Ten years of experience tracking work tasks and maintaining project schedules (including work breakdown structures).
•        Ten years of experience with risk tracking, mitigation, and issue tracking.
•        Ten years of experience with delivering projects as per agreed schedule, as per the current technical specification (within scope), and within the approved budget.

Preferred Qualifications

•           Seven years leading data or system modernization projects in a state government domain/agency.
•          Three years of experience working with health Information Technology systems. 
•          Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
•          Three years of experience with Medicaid
•         Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.