Responsibilities

Are you passionate about the Nation’s healthcare system? Would you like to be actively engaged in a challenging and rewarding work environment, working with smart, passionate, and motivated people at the intersection of technology and operations for our nation’s aviation system? If you answer “yes” to all of the above, this is the job for you!

Responsibilities: 

The Senior Scheduler will provide technical support to the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation at CMS in creating and using templates, project schedules, timelines, data collection tools, agile life cycle models, checklists, reports, dashboards, and other artifacts to facilitate the development and distribution of guidelines for project schedule management as well as analyze schedule related critical path actions and risk mitigation.

The Senior Scheduler will also provide regular quality checks, considering the following factors as key pieces of information that need to be captured in each project schedule:

• interdependencies between activities,
• information technology system development or modification,
• policy development,
• contract/procurement actions,
• beneficiary outreach and education activities,
• oversight and monitoring requirements,
• funding status,
• risk identification and mitigation, and
• any future mission critical schedule or reporting requirement.

The Scheduler will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining detailed resource-loaded schedules for implementation, developmental and operational systems.

Qualifications

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in management preferred; candidates without Bachelor’s degree must have extensive (minimum of 14 years), directly relevant experience and demonstrated record of sustained excellent performance
• 10 years of management and scheduling experience, using MS Project Server 2013/CAPMS (or the current MS versions CMS is supporting)
• Expertise in other scheduling tools such as: 
• Microsoft Project; 
• Significant experienced with Project Server, 
• Schedule assessment tools, EVMS, reporting and risk management tools such as wInsight, Cobra, etc.; 
• familiar with Microsoft Office tools, including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel and MS Access
• Experience with CMS’s CMMI Group is highly desired.
• Ability to develop/maintain integrated project schedules (capturing critical tasks and collaborating with team members of other integrated schedules), analyze schedule related critical path actions, analyze interdependencies between activities, and monitor any future mission critical schedules.
• Customer-service and goal oriented
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as a team member under tight deadlines with changing priorities
• Demonstrated understanding of CMS and customer/user roles and missions
• Experience with Integrated Process Teams, Working Groups management, risk assessment and mitigation, test and deployment
• The candidate is expected to seek and assume higher levels of technical responsibility, manage time effectively across more than one initiative, and apply sound technical judgment.
• Fluency in concepts such as work breakdown structure, program scheduling and status reporting, program reporting, and resource planning 
• Ability to work as a team member in a diverse team 
• Ability to deal effectively with both Government and contracted workforce members’ excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to present the Integrated Master Schedule to the project manager and walk through the schedule at a high level to keep the project manager current on upcoming, late and completed tasks
• Ability to work with co-workers to help them understand the schedule

Client Engagement

Overview

With the continuing impacts of COVID-19 around the world, we are taking action to protect the health and well-being of our colleagues and maintain the safety of the communities where we operate. Noblis seeks an environment free from COVID-19 and prefers all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Attestation of vaccination status will be required for employment with Noblis. Unvaccinated employees may be subject to additional health and safety requirements to include any federal, state and/or client restrictions.

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI, and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Learn more at Noblis -About Us

Why work at a Noblis company?

Our employees find greater meaning in their work and balance the other things in life that matter to them. Our people are our greatest asset. They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public. Noblis has won numerous workplace awards. Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace.

Noblis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race (as well as because of or on the basis of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

Noblis is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Noblis will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact employee-relations@noblis.org.