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About The Position

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.
• Direct and indirect supervision of the multidisciplinary project team, including analysts and specialists assigned to the contract.