Child Welfare Project Manager

DataStaff, Inc. is currently seeking a Child Welfare Project Manager for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Raleigh, NC.

*This position is hybrid

Responsibilities:

• Work with multiple internal and external stakeholders, project teams, divisions, departments, and vendors to strategize, implement, and maintain the various modernization initiative for social services and Medicaid programs.
• Review project proposals or plans to determine a time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements and the assignment of available departmental resources to various project phases.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline a work plan.
• Establish a work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
• Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives.
• Ensure that project goals are achieved.
• Assign duties and responsibilities to project personnel and define the scope of their authority.
• Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
• Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.
• Work with business and cross-functional teams to develop Business Case and Cost Benefit analysis for prioritized initiatives within the program.
• Manage multiple Vendor onboarding and identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and Vendors.
• Work with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department.
• Manage budget across various workstreams and funding channels for maximum productivity.
• Manage resource allocations and expectations for program.
• Collaborate with the State to ensure program compliance with the State IT Roadmap and all State Privacy and security requirements.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior experience in Child welfare application is required
• The selected candidate must be a results-oriented individual with a strong work ethic and must be able to demonstrate excellent leadership, negotiation, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills.
• Experience in communicating in a fashion tailored to the audience and their needs.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrates experience in working effectively with all levels of staff, clients, and other IT personnel.
• Experience in the responsibility for acquiring and utilizing the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timeframes, and quality for a program.
• Ability to identify and plan systematic corrective action to reduce errors and improve the quality of the systems and services, by examination of the root causes of problems.
• Ability to build, influence, lead and motivate effective teams towards end results.
• Management prefers applicants with the following:
• Candidate with PgMP Certification
• Candidate with Agile (PMI-ACP) Certification
• Knowledge of social services and medicaid programs or similarly complex case management systems

Required Skills:

• Prior experience in Child welfare application
• 3 Years - Program Management experience managing multiple large complex projects
• 3 Years - Experience creating roadmaps for the portfolio
• 3 Years - Proven track record of delivering IT projects within budget, scope and schedule.
• 3 Years - Objective decision-making ability based on strategic objectives priority, business performance analysis and resource availability
• 3 Years - Hands on experience managing project risk, cost, schedule, quality, testing, and communications.
• 3 Years - Strong supervision, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills.
• 3 Years - Demonstrated presentation, training skills, oral and written communication skills.
• 3 Years - Solid work experience with project management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project)
• 5 Years - Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel and Power point)
• 5 Years - Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience preparing Project plan for complex business needs.
• 5 Years - Ability to communicate effectively at all job levels, use excellent evaluation skills, and ability to relay information in legible reports as required
• 2 Years - Experience with projects related to Application transformation and Modernization

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Agile Methodologies.
• PMI certification Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Experience with Cloud technologies & SaaS applications running on Cloud
• Experience collaborating with Federal, State and Local Government
• Experience managing implementation of a statewide IT project
• Experience in establishing and/or implementing governance models for IT modernization efforts

This position is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.