Project Manager / Senior Project Coordinator

Title: Project Manager

ALTA is supporting a 6-month contract opportunity working 100% remote.

ALTA IT Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of System One, a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions and integrated services. ALTA is an established leader in IT Staffing and Services, for both government and commercial enterprises across the United States, specializing in Program & Project Management, Application Development, Cybersecurity, Data & Advanced Analytics, and Agile Transformation Services.

The Project Manager II is responsible for managing low to medium complexity projects within programs and medium complexity standalone projects.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for successful delivery of project
• Ensure project milestone deliverables are completed and approved at every stage of the project lifecycle
• Assist with the continuous improvement of project management best practices, processes, and tool
• Responsible for ensuring project closure activities are completed
• Collaborate with business owners on the identification and assignment of business resource
• Collaborate with IT point of contact on the identification and assignment of IT resource
• Schedule project audits and ensure compliance to IMO Governance audit requirements
• Escalate issues to Business Owner, Program Manager, and IMO Leadership as applicable
• Maintain project stakeholder matrix
• Drive cross-functional communication between impacted business and IT areas
• Schedule and facilitate project meetings including weekly status meetings and stakeholder meeting
• Represent project in program meetings
• Capture and report on meeting notes, decisions, and action items
• Accurately track and report project status against plan to stakeholders at all levels
• Track, compile and report project metrics
• Advocate for and adhere to IMO standards, tools and processes
• Implement mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and communicate/escalate to stakeholders
• Maintain RAID for project items
• Identify, log, assign and manage risks and issues
• Maintain project SharePoint site and project document repository
• Produce detailed reports, business decision documents, meeting minutes, and notification on assigned projects
• Perform any other job duties as requested
  
  

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Business, Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of relevant work experience is required
• Minimum of two (2) years of project management experience is required
• Minimum of five (5) years Managed Care experience is required
  
  

Competencies, Knowledge And Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Teams, Outlook, etc.
• Experience working in project management software is preferred
• Demonstrates analysis and reporting skills
• Excellent decision making/problem solving skill
• Demonstrates interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Demonstrates critical listening and thinking skill
• Ability to effectively interact with all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Customer service oriented
• Ability to proactively, effectively and efficiently lead a project team of up to 15 core members and multiple external vendors
• Ability to prioritize work and team assignments to deliver projects on time, on budget, and meeting stakeholders’ expectations
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency
• Understanding of project management processes, techniques and tools, and development lifecycle (ideally Agile)
• Familiarity of healthcare payer industry and knowledge of Medicaid and Medicare a plus
  
  

Licensure And Certification

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is desired
  
  

Ref: #860-IT Cincinnati