Program manager with PMP / PgMP / PMI-ACP / CSM or equivalent

26 Nov 2024

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Title: Program manager with PMP / PgMP / PMI-ACP / CSM or equivalent

Location: Baltimore, MD

Background: Client has fully leveraged its relationship with CRISP to support COVID response. Due to the significant volume of work that has accumulated, Client now requires a program manager to monitor, manage, and control the relationship between client and CRISP and deliverables that arise from it. This program manager will increase quality by centralizing functions presently shared by several offices within client, but not owned centrally. The program manager will be responsible for representing the Department in its operations, management, and relationship with the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), our regional Health Information Exchange. CRISP is a public health utility that provides critical resources and services to the Department in a variety of capacities - including providing key IT services and activities as part of the state’s COVID response. Due to the significant volume of work that has accumulated, client now requires a program manager to monitor, manage, and maintain oversight of the relationship between client and CRISP, the deliverables requested of CRISP, the needs of the Department, helping guide leadership and business owners in both the development of strategy of work around the CRISP resource as well as receiving, prioritizing, and tracking the deliverables to completion. This program manager provides the leadership, expertise, methodologies, tools and templates to client to support its goal of efficiently leveraging CRISP resources. The successful candidate possesses experience in the following areas:
  • Business process reengineering and change management necessary to manage projects, asks, and deliverables when working with a health information exchange;
  • Engagement with and management of business and technical stakeholder groups at all levels of leadership;
  • Development and ongoing management of project governance functions;
  • Procurement functions at all stages of the acquisitions cycle;
  • Project planning activities such as scope, schedule, and cost management;
  • Project monitoring and control activities such as quality management; and,
  • Design, development, and integration of large, complicated IT application installations in a healthcare environment. client maintains a large and complex project portfolio. Thus, the program manager must possess the flexibility and range of expertise to shift project assignments and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Duties:
  • Ensure the development and coordination of stakeholders across functions.
  • Develop scope statements and manage scope to align work efforts to organizational goals and objectives.
  • Develop product transition and rollout schedules and manage work activities to ensure conformity to the schedule.
  • Develop performance and quality measures for product management activities and provide tracking and periodic reporting on these measures.
  • Lead teams of technical resources in the delivery of high-quality IT solutions that meet business needs.
  • Produce stakeholder registers and responsibility assignment matrices as required to ensure a shared understanding.
  • Motivates stakeholders and forges consensus around program goals and objectives
  • Develop and manage budgets and resourcing plans, and track performance against these budgets and resourcing plans.
  • Engage in procurement and contract administration activities as required to ensure the Department obtains the resources required to fulfill program requirements and objectives.
  • Develops and implements communication strategies to improve transparency and promote awareness of program areas and issues.
  • Engages productively and effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
  • Develops written and oral correspondence of outstanding quality.
  • Integrates change management and change control practices into the program as required.
  • Identifies, tracks, manages, and reduces the impact of risks and issues.
  • Manages vendor relationships to ensure high levels of quality.
  • Meets legal, regulatory, and policy mandates.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Education:
  • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Public Health, or other related discipline. Master’s degree and/or project management certification is preferred.
  • PMP certification.
  • PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent certification demonstrating competence in agile.

General Experience:
  • At least twelve (12) years of experience in program or project management.

Specialized Experience:
  • At least six (6) years of experience in supervision or oversight of IT related programs or projects.
  • A proven track record of successfully implementing projects using Agile methodologies including at least five (5) years of experience as a project manager managing major ($1M or more) projects in a high technology development environment with cross-functional teams.
  • At least five (5) years of experience managing not less than three (3) projects in a healthcare environment.
  • Experience working with health information exchanges
  • Experience participating in the development and testing of applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Force.com, and/or Google Cloud Platforms.
  • Experience in running large, complicated IT application designs, developments, and implementations.
  • Experience with agile tools such as Jira.
  • Experience in work planning, monitoring, and reporting.
  • Experience managing requirements processes including conducting interviews and documenting technical requirements.
  • Experience managing design activities including design sessions and defining future state processes.
  • Experience managing vendors and service providers.
  • Experience working with and managing onsite and remote teams.
  • Experience with industry-standard System Development Life Cycle methodologies.
  • PgMP certification is strongly preferred.
  • Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects.
  • Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communications skills.
  • Demonstrates capacity to engage effectively with stakeholders and all levels.

  • ID: #23512847
  • State: Maryland Baltimore 21201 Baltimore USA
  • City: Baltimore
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-26
  • Deadline: 2022-01-23
  • Category: Et cetera