Project Manager

Company: Public Consulting Group
Location: United States

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About Public Consulting Group
Public Consulting Group, Inc. (PCG) is a leading public sector solutions implementation and operations improvement firm that partners with health, education, and human services agencies to improve lives. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PCG has over 2,500 professionals in more than 60 offices worldwide. PCG’s Health practice offers in-depth programmatic knowledge and regulatory expertise to help state and municipal health agencies respond to regulatory change, improve access to health care, maximize program revenue, improve business processes, and achieve regulatory compliance. Using industry best practices, PCG’s Health team helps organizations deliver quality services with constrained resources to promote improved client outcomes. To learn more, visit http://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/health/.
Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.
  • Leads the planning and implementation of project
  • Facilitates the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
  • Defines project tasks and resource requirements
  • Develops full scale project plans
  • Assembles and coordinates project staff
  • Manages project resource allocation
  • Plans and schedules project timelines
  • Tracks project deliverables using appropriate tools
  • Provides direction and support to project team
  • Responsible for quality assurance
  • Constantly monitors and reports on progress of the project to all stakeholders
  • Presents reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
  • Implements and manages project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
  • Responsible for project evaluations and assessment of results

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
  • 4-7+ years of direct work experience in project management capacity
  • Proven experience with people management, strategic planning, risk management, and change management
  • Familiarity with Medicaid policies and programs, Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES/MMIS), frameworks and concepts (e.g., MITA, MELC, MECT, MEET, MEELC, etc.) preferred
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
  • Experience with business process mapping/reengineering (BPM/BPR) and standard operating procedures (SOP’s) a plus
Skills:

  • Critical thinking and problem solving
  • Strong writing skills
  • Planning and organizing
  • Decision-making
  • Communication skills
  • Influencing and leading
  • Delegation