Project Manager

Summary

Join Capio Group as a full-time, remote Project Manager! We're a small firm with a big impact, working with major California government agencies. This role involves managing the entire IT project lifecycle, driving process improvement, and modernizing systems. You'll lead teams, manage risks, and collaborate with stakeholders. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, plus a flexible workplace and great work-life balance. The ideal candidate has extensive project management experience, a PMP certification, and a strong background in healthcare IT projects for government agencies.

Requirements

• Must have a minimum of five (5) years of broad, extensive and increasingly responsible Project Manager experience applying project management principles, methods, techniques, and tools
• At least three (3) years of that experience must have been in a lead capacity
• Must possess a Bachelor’s degree
• Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis
• Must possess a current and valid Project Management Professional (PMP) certification issued by the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• PMP certification is required and may not be substituted with additional experience
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience working with Healthcare programs such as Medicare/Medicaid/Medi-Cal
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience leading and managing various project team sizes on large and complex IT system development projects
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience developing and/or facilitating review and approval of project management plans and deliverables for large and complex IT system development projects for government agencies
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience facilitating change control management processes in large and complex IT system implementations for government agencies
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience with either agile or hybrid agile software development processes used to develop or implement an automated solution
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience assisting with converting and migrating legacy data on a large and complex IT system project
• Within the last ten (10) years, must be able to provide at least two (2) current references from previous engagements with other companies or government entities of similar size, scope, and type of service

Responsibilities

• Provide management of the entire IT project and system development lifecycles by managing projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and the project closure process
• Apply the principles, methods, techniques, and tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including but not limited to the areas of: communications, scope/requirements, schedule, cost, risks, issues, quality, change control, resource, integration, business process re-engineering, organizational change management, and procurement
• Completion of new custom modules or applications as outlined for the recommended solution
• Digital Support Services to provide Agile development support and coordination across technical teams
• Program Support services to support legacy processes while redirected Program resources support newly developed systems
• IV&V oversight
• Identifying inefficiencies, implementing best practices, and fostering collaboration among stakeholders to ensure consistent processes
• Improve data accuracy, facilitate better decision-making, and support long-term scalability by standardizing workflows
• Develop and maintain project management plans, project schedules, communication plans, risk and issue analysis, and work processes
• Plan and implement organizational change management activities to transition staff from their current state to the desired future state
• Work with stakeholders to facilitate the improvement/re-engineering of business processes to align with technology needs
• Create all needed project management documents needed for the support of client project(s) and to meet any project oversight requirements
• Actively/proactively identify and manage risks and issues to minimize impacts to scope, schedule, and costs and provide detailed analysis
• In coordination with the Project Sponsor, manage the effort of procuring any new products and services required for the execution of the project
• Collaborate with subject matter experts and develop project management and system development deliverables in a timely manner based on established client standards
• Leverage project management best practices in accordance with standards of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) methodology, Agile methodology, client’s Best Practices, and any other applicable standards

Preferred Qualifications

• At least three (3) years of experience in IT project management or coordination activities, including working with technical staff and business users
• At least three (3) years of experience developing and delivering project status presentations and/or project briefings for various audiences as requested (project team, stakeholders, and executive management)
• At least three (3) years of experience with the CDT Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL) Process

Benefits

• Salary: $120,000 - $135,000
• Flexible workplace
• Great work-life balance