Project Manager

Senior Project Manager
Onsite in Olympia, Washington

The following are the minimum qualifications:

• Experienced Project manager with a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience working with state government agencies.
• Experience with Health Care Authority (HCA) and knowledge of HCA’s programs and organization.
• Experience with the Washington state government authorizing environment (Office of Financial Management and/or Washington Legislature).
• Availability beginning December 31, 2019 and extending through May 30, 2020.
• Ability to be on-site in Olympia, Washington during the project term.
• PMP certification required.

The Financial Services Division (FSD) is led by the agency’s Chief Financial Officer and is the lead agency division for all fiscal work. FSD is organized into eight sections and includes nearly 150 staff. Key workload during the legislative session is shared between the Budget Operations, Health Care Rates and Finance, and Analytics sections.

Health Care Authority is seeking skilled and experienced project managers to assist the FSD with successful completion of legislative session related fiscal tasks (internal to HCA and external to the authorizing environment) during the 2020 legislative session, to complete a project post-mortem analysis, and provide recommendations for permanent and sustainable process improvements.

Specifically:

• Assistance with planning and role/responsibility assignments for 2020 legislative session tasks.
• Lead scheduling, agenda preparation, action item documentation, and follow-up for two weekly legislative staff meetings during the 2020 legislative session. Follow-up will include communicating meeting discussion and decisions within the FSD organization.
• Assist FSD leaders and staff with workload prioritization (and reprioritization) resulting from weekly legislative staff meetings.
• Evaluate legislative request and workload tracking tools and system currently used by FSD and recommend improvements (pre-and post-session).
• Evaluate fiscal note and fiscal analysis workload assignment and process flow currently used by FSD and recommend improvements (pre- and post-session).
• Executive support to the Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Chief Financial Officers.
• Decision support to the FSD Leadership Team.
• Conduct 2020 Legislative Session post-mortem.
• Provide written recommendations for FSD legislative session task and process improvements.

Brandt Information Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or religion or other legally protected status.

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $110.00 to $120.00 /hour

Experience:

• Health Care Authority: 8 years (Required)
• state government: 10 years (Required)
• Office of Financial Management or WA Legislature: 5 years (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Required)

Location:

• Olympia, WA (Required)

License:

• PMP (Required)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Contract Length:

• 5 – 6 months

Work Location:

• One location