Project Manager

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is seeking one fulltime Project Manager to work on providing advanced Project Management support for Healthcare System Modernization work.

At a high level the resource will be responsible for providing leadership for the Healthcare System Modernization work including technical resource schedule communication and financial planning. The successful responder will be expected to:

• Communicate and incorporate business owners visions business plans and key objectives.
• Establish and communicate clear performance expectations to members of the team.
• Provide updates as required by MNIT METS and System Modernization Portfolio Management teams and DHS leadership.
• Provide project management and vendor management mentoring to State and other vendor staff as required.
• Foster a culture that supports and drives staff engagement and collaboration in support of State objectives.
• Establish manage and leverage business and technology relationships both internal and external to the METS and System Modernization IT solution.
• Provide knowledge transfer.
• Provide strategic vision and thinking with focus on outcomes.
• Create clear and attainable project objectives.
• Create clear and attainable project requirements.
• Manage project constraints of cost time and scope.
• Form close links with team members and stakeholders.

• Work must comply with the Statewide Enterprise Architecture the States Enterprise Security Policy and Standards Statewide Project Management Methodology and applicable industry and agency standards.
• Resource must be able to work independently with little or no supervision and must be able to drive to resolution in situations with high ambiguity and confusion.
• Resource will report to the Project Manager Supervisor.
• Resource must be available for forty (40) hour work weeks except for State holidays or other exceptions approved by DHS and/or identified in the event response.

Sample Tasks

• • Provide leadership for program/project for projects with Minnesota Eligibility Technology System (METS) and System Modernization technical solution impacts including technical resource schedule communication and financial plans.
  • Management of preidentified METS and System Modernization project portfolios.
  • Communicate and incorporate business owners visions business plans and key objectives. Establish and communicate clear performance expectations to members of the METS and System Modernization IT solutions.
  • Provide updates as required by MNIT METS and System Modernization Portfolio Management teams and DHS leadership.
  • Provide project management and vendor management mentoring to State and other vendor staff as required.
  • Foster a culture that supports and drives staff engagement and collaboration in support of State objectives.
  • Establish manage and leverage business and technology relationships both internal and external to the METS and System Modernization IT solutions.
  • Provide strategic vision and thinking with focus on outcomes.
  • Create clear and attainable project/program objectives.
  • Create clear and attainable project/program requirements.
  • Manage program/project constraints of cost time and scope.
  • Form close links with team members and stakeholders.
  • Provide knowledge transfer.

Minimum Qualifications

• • Five (5) years experience in Program/Project Management role
  • A Masters degree substitutes for three years of experience or a Bachelors degree substitutes for two years or an Associates degree substitutes for one year.
  • Two (2) years experience working with State Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) process.
  • Two (2) years experience working with the Federal Advanced Planning Document (APD) process.

Desired Skills

• • Two (2) engagements lasting more than six (6) months in Program/Project Manager role.
  • Two (2) years experience working with public healthcare exchange or marketplace systems.
  • Demonstrable leadership ability.
  • Ability to direct & manage program/project development from beginning to end.
  • Ability to define program/project scope goals and deliverables in collaboration with project sponsors and stakeholders.
  • Ability to estimate program/project resource requirements and participants needed to achieve goals including changes during where necessary.
  • Ability to identify and manage program/project dependencies and critical path.
  • Ability to establish program/project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools and tracking such milestones and deliverables.
  • Ability to manage changes in program/project scope identify potential crises or issues and devise contingency plans as appropriate.
  • Ability to communicate program/project plans expectations updates progress issues and successes in a timely & clear fashion when necessary.