Project Manager

Duration: 12 months to start�

Company / Department Culture

This position will focus on the MMIS systems, including replacement systems to be implemented. Our work is very fast paced, and this position will frequently be required to work outside of normal business hours to support releases and unplanned incidents.�

Scope Of The Project

The client is looking for an IT Healthcare Consultant - Project Manager - Consultant who will be the lead for MMIS Medicaid Systems Operational Management. This position will lead teams that support business-critical operations for MCO enrollment, claims and encounter processing and payment and other support functions.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities

• Oversee, coordinate, and perform operations and support activities for MMIS, Encounter Processing System, and other supporting systems. To include communication and coordination with vendors, Office of Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, etc.
• Conduct vendor management including monitoring service level agreements.
• Design and develop desk aides and process flows for new and existing service lines.
• Train team members to use desk aides, process flows, and ticketing system to perform operational support.
• Maintains an effective organizational team and motivates diverse staff to accomplish mission critical operations and objectives. These teams provide production support, helpdesk, interface/EDI support, and stakeholder monitoring and user acceptance testing.
• Oversee incident and issue management. Ensures documentation, tracking, escalation and resolution for all ticket types. Ensures timely resolution of production issues.
• Identifies and mitigates operational issues and ensures decisions and actions are well-documented.
• Handles internal and external escalations and requests and ensures they are satisfactorily resolved, communicating issues and outcomes to appropriate personnel. Ensures work is assigned appropriately and escalations are resolved in a timely and effective manner.
• Ensures compliance with security (CMS, SSA, etc.) and monitors all findings and recommendations to completion.
• Promotes workforce engagement and a safe, professional, and productive work environment for all team members
• Implements, monitors and follows Standard Operating Procedures and alerts team when practice differs from SOP.
• Oversees release management activities stakeholder communication, pre-implementation planning, readiness checks, and post-implementation monitoring.
• Provide support to change management by performing and coordinating backlog grooming and maintenance and ensuring compliance with appropriate approval gates.
  
  

Required Skills (Rank in Order of Importance):

• Bachelor s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. 5 years of equivalent experience in business/systems analysis and/or computer systems development/modification may be substituted.
• 3 years of prior experience managing system operations and or administrative program functions in healthcare environment.
• 5 years of experience in project/program management managing system implementations or enhancements.
• Ability to provide incident management on call and after hours
  
  

Preferred Skills (Rank In Order Of Importance)

• Prior experience managing operations of Medicaid Enterprise systems.
• Ability to make presentations and prepare reports.
• Knowledge of Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and MMIS domain concepts
• Experience with ticketing software
• Experience with writing standard operating procedures for new system implementations.
• AWS Cloud Certifications
  
  

Additional Skills/Duties

• -Excellent communication skills with staff ranging from frontline to executive management
• Ability to manage work and provide guidance
• -Experience assigning/overseeing team workload
• Knowledge of system development lifecycle
• -Strong documentation and process management ability
• -Excellent communication skills with staff ranging from frontline to executive management