Project Manager

Our goal is to solve problems and deliver results for our clients. At Cloud and Things, you can be a part of transforming the public sector's IT environment. Our team is on the forefront of helping to solve the government's most complex IT challenges. If you are seeking a role that offers the opportunity to work on rewarding projects, consider a career with Cloud and Things.

Overview:

We are seeking a Project Manager, Lead, who will support our client by managing technical projects, aligning goals with business needs, and ensuring clear stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, leading high-impact technology initiatives.

Duties:

• Develop detailed, cross-functional project plans to deliver technology products and services.

• Identify and mitigate risks resulting from dependencies within and between projects and functional areas.

• Lead with clarity in uncertain situations, creating structure, fostering collaboration, and building consensus to drive successful project completion.

• Plan capacity effectively to allocate resources and provide project guidance and direction to assigned project team members to ensure each deliverable is met for the larger project/program implementation within deadline and technology standards.

• Schedule and facilitate project calls with key resources.

• Onboard and train new project managers involved in technology projects.

• Oversee and coordinate multiple projects across the organization, from inception to completion, ensuring deliverables are met on schedule.

• Accountable for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company priorities, commitments, and goals.

• Facilitate defining project scope, goals, deliverables, and resource requirements.

• Track project deliverables.

• Manage operational aspects of a project and/or stakeholder interaction.

• Conduct and facilitate regular project status meetings, communicate updates, and provide timely reports to stakeholders, including project status, challenges, risks, and resolutions.

• Manage project change requests and interventions to achieve project outputs.

• Responsible for project evaluations, assessment of results, documentation of lessons learned and execution of follow up actions.

• Monitor internal client requests and recommend solutions to increase team efficiency.

• Effectively engage colleagues and peers in the development and execution of strategies and work plans.

• Comfortable holding key resources, including upper-level leadership, accountable to the project plan.

• Ensure adherence to project management best practices, methodologies, and standards.

• Collaborate with multiple departments and their leaders to drive processes forward.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.

• 4 years of experience managing complex, multi-year technology projects to delivery.

• Prior experience with Medicaid.

• Proven project management skills, including project planning, creation of the project plan, execution, monitoring, and control.

• Adaptable to waterfall, agile, and hybrid project delivery.

• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Effective written and verbal communicator.

• Experience with planning and organizing.

• Experience with influencing, leading and delegation.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Project and proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, preferably with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access.

• Up to 25% travel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management Certification (PMP).

• Prior experience in Medicaid financial management services is a benefit.

Cloud and Things complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.