Project Manager

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health • Ann Arbor, MI

8d • $92,000 - $149,500 • Onsite

About The Position

The Project Manager will lead the day-to-day execution of the contract across concurrent task areas, directing a multidisciplinary team of analysts and specialists toward scope, schedule, and budget objectives. This role involves developing, baselining, and maintaining project management artifacts, including the project management plan, concept of operations, team charter, work breakdown structure dictionary, and various management plans (schedule, communication, change, risk, knowledge, and quality). The Project Manager will maintain the integrated project schedule, update it weekly, and flag issues to leadership. They will also lead risk management through reviews, facilitation, and maintaining a risk register, and lead change management by tracking changes to project baselines. Key responsibilities include producing status reports, managing stakeholder engagement, creating work plans, monitoring milestones, supporting transition activities, and potentially working within Medicare systems at CMS. General administrative supervision is received from the Program Director, with close collaboration expected with information systems leadership, functional managers, client and partner stakeholders, and the project team. The role involves direct and indirect supervision of the multidisciplinary project team.

Requirements

• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute, maintained throughout the engagement.
• Bachelor’s degree with at least five (5) years of project management experience managing a multidisciplinary project team, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience managing a formal software development lifecycle process and familiarity with agile methodologies.
• Experience in the direct and indirect management of multidisciplinary teams working toward complex goals, with adeptness at creating a collaborative team environment.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills, including productive use of project management technology.
• Ability to understand difficult technical concepts and to communicate, orally and in writing, with a range of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Federal public trust suitability determination, and U.S. work authorization sufficient to meet E-Verify requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working within Medicare systems at CMS, especially enrollment and beneficiary database operations is desirable.
• Non-profit experience.
• Experience supporting Federal health programs or agencies.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC), System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and ITIL governance frameworks.
• Experience managing cross-agency or interagency coordination efforts.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of the contract across concurrent task areas, directing a multidisciplinary team of analysts and specialists toward scope, schedule, and budget objectives.
• Develop, baseline, and maintain project management artifacts, including the project management plan, concept of operations, team charter, work breakdown structure dictionary, and the schedule, communication, change, risk, knowledge, and quality management plans.
• Maintain the integrated project schedule, update it on a weekly basis, and flag issues and concerns to project leadership.
• Lead risk management by conducting risk reviews, facilitating risk identification with stakeholder groups, maintaining a risk register with qualitative and quantitative analysis, and tracking each risk to closure.
• Lead change management by tracking the submission, evaluation, and implementation of changes to project baselines or systems using approved collaboration tools.
• Produce weekly status reports, monthly status reports, and materials for executive and leadership meetings, and follow up on action items and requests.
• Direct overall stakeholder engagement and communication, coordinating work with client components, Federal partners, and other designated contractors.
• Create project work plans and task-based resource estimates, monitor milestone accomplishment, and balance competing demands for shared resources.
• Support transition-in and transition-out activities, including knowledge transfer sessions, artifact handoff, and transition progress reporting.

What This Job Offers

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