Public Sector PMO Analyst

Huron Consulting Services • Chicago, IL

2d • $55,000 - $75,000

About The Position

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. The public sector enabling capabilities organization (ECO) consists of six functions that support Huron at the enterprise level: sales operations, sales enablement, government and policy relations, contracts management, engagement management and engagement assurance. As part of ECO, engagement management partners with engagement delivery teams to execute public sector contracts in compliance with government regulations, policies, and contractual requirements. The public sector PMO analyst is expected to support one or more project managers (PMs) across an enterprise-wide portfolio of engagements to deliver on contract requirements including technical, cost, schedule, and quality performance. If desired, this role may have opportunity to participate in project management activities for low complexity engagements with the intention of growing into a project manager role.

Requirements

• This position requires excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• This individual must be able to balance multiple priorities and any given time and be able to communicate with various levels of internal and external stakeholders.
• The ideal candidate would have interest or experience with government contracting and/or project management.
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Teams)
• Ability to balance multiple projects, adapt to shifting priorities, and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to work with teams and individuals of varying working styles in a virtual environment
• Ability to analyze data sets and create charts and graphs
• Ability to read and understand government contracts
• Ability to obtain a security clearance if required by the contract

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Smartsheet preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides support to one or more project managers to ensure standardized and consistent delivery across the entire public sector portfolio.
• Supports the entirety of the project life cycle, from launch to closeout.
• Project setup and maintenance in ERP system responsibilities, including but not limited to:
• Run monthly burn rate reports and provide to project leadership
• Coordinate with billing teams to ensure invoices are accurate and compliant
• Review expense reports to ensure compliance with government and internal policies
• Support project resource forecast and contribution margin tracking
• Support project management activities
• Update project work plan and project management plan with direction from PM
• Develop/customize deliverable templates and work with delivery team to prepare deliverables as stated in client contract
• Schedule and attends internal team meetings, draft agendas, and distribute meeting minutes.
• May be required to schedule and attend external meetings at the request of delivery teams.
• Manage internal team government background check activities including:
• Coordinate with prime contractor or government agency contact as needed
• Coordinate with employees to submit correct paperwork and manage appointments
• Coordinate with HR to submit paperwork or process attestations
• Support team records retention efforts and store files in accordance with Huron policies and government regulations
• Participate in internal initiatives and projects as assigned

Benefits

• Huron offers a competitive pay and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
• Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.

What This Job Offers

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