Project Manager 1

Freedman HealthCare

2d • $80,353 - $96,424 • Remote

About The Position

The Project Manager 1 contributes to the organization, operation, and growth of leading-edge health data and policy projects that transform healthcare across the nation. The PM 1 works simultaneously on more than one project on a cross-functional team led by a Project Director or client designee. The PM 1 is responsible for all project management tasks, including establishing and maintaining resources and artifacts in accordance with FHC principles. The PM 1 is supervised by a Senior Consultant or more senior member of the FHC team.

Requirements

• Excellent self-motivation and time management skills, with the ability to thrive in a remote work environment
• Experience creating and carrying out step-by-step work plans
• Strong formal and informal interpersonal skills
• Attentiveness to evolving client needs
• Excellent written communication skills in varied formats (e.g., action-oriented emails, brief meeting summaries/action items, and concise, audience-appropriate slide decks)
• Detail oriented, strong organizational skills, exceptional follow-through, and task management
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, including Excel
• Knowledge of, or interest in, health care data, public healthcare payers, US health care policy and law
• Capacity to assign tasks and monitor task completion by others
• Assume responsibility for tasks as appropriate during planning phase, then initiate and execute self-assignments with minimal direct supervision
• Create step-by-step completion plans for deliverables created by cross-functional teams with a wide range of skill sets
• Exercise strong interpersonal skills and confident speaking style
• Meeting facilitation skills and expertise, including agenda development, discussion framing, issue prioritization, open issues identification and definition, creation of action items
• Provides excellent written communication skills in varied formats including but not limited to action-oriented emails, meeting summaries/action items, and concise, audience-appropriate slide decks)
• Ability to prioritize tasks
• Provide timely email responses
• Maintain highest standards of professionalism in all meetings (internal and external)
• Conforms to policies and procedures in Employee Handbook
• Proficient in MS Office Suite, including Excel
• Capacity to deliver client-ready documents or materials, including editing and formatting
• Familiarity with one or more cloud-based project management tools
• Experience developing Gantt charts, project timelines, and budgets
• Knowledge of, or interest in, multi-payer databases, public healthcare payers, claims processing and/or claims data analytics
• 3+ years of experience managing complex projects, preferably related to health policy, health care reform, analytic data projects and/or health data strategy
• Bachelor’s degree
• Master’s degree in related field or current project management certification (PMP, Agile, Disciplined Agile)

Nice To Haves

• Facility with FHC project management tools and techniques
• Advanced project management training

Responsibilities

• Conducts research on diverse topics (internet, academic journals, publicly available data resources)
• Presents information in a range of formats (PowerPoint, written summaries, spreadsheets)
• Prepares working drafts of documents for team members’ review; incorporates edits to create well formatted, client-ready, final versions
• Arranges meetings, prepares agendas, provides meeting summaries
• Compiles action items and reports on completion
• Formulates action plans with support from project leadership
• Develops working knowledge of project management tools/techniques to support ongoing project efforts
• Contributes to use of appropriate project management tools and scrum strategies to advance the project goals and timeline
• Develop client-specific document management, organization and operational processes to support specific project outcomes
• Conforms to policies and procedures in Employee Handbook
• Manage complex projects with multiple workstreams
• Facilitate internal and client meetings, set agendas, and summarize follow-ups according to schedule as reviewed and approved by FHC Project Director
• Develop, monitor, and report on project budgets, staffing resources, and deadlines.
• Draft/compile materials for invoicing and submit to FHC Director of Business and Finance
• Use FHC project management tools/techniques to develop, implement, and maintain workplans and timelines for multiple projects, as appropriate to the specific project and team.
• Report on progress to project director on an agreed upon schedule.
• Deploy agile and scrum methodology when appropriate
• Identify and propose strategies or actions to mitigate risks to the project’s success
• Develop best possible version (client ready) drafts of supporting materials (slide decks, agendas, notes, action items, etc.) for review by Project Director
• As appropriate, ensure that project deliverables are properly scoped, documented, and vetted with the Data Science, the Policy & Program team members and the Project Director during the planning stage.
• Develop deliverables schedules in consultation with all project team members.
• Support the team in developing deliverables, including drafting written deliverables (e.g., narrative project descriptions, action plans, topic briefs, literature reviews, etc.), slide decks, spreadsheets, tables, business requirements and analytic plans.
• Contribute to RFPs and other bid proposals as appropriate.
• Perform research and literature reviews; translate results into clear, concise findings to support project work
• Coordinate communications among client staff, FHC project team members, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders during the lifetime of a project
• Conform to FHC data governance principles/requirements.
• Participate in internal FHC development and knowledge gathering activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level