Job Description

The max rate for this position is $100/hour.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, high-impact, and confidential business operations projects across several domains including finance, contracts, staffing, and external communications. The role works closely with internal staff, external vendors, and other state agencies to ensure business operations alignment with the strategic program priorities. This role requires expertise in applying recognized project management methodologies.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Project Management

· Serve as the project
manager for all components of business operations.
· Develop comprehensive and
time-sensitive project management plans, including scope, requirements,
acceptance criteria, risk management, communication plans, change
management, and detailed project schedules.
· Apply appropriate project
management methodologies for project delivery, ensuring effective
monitoring and control of scope, schedule, budget, and quality.

· Implement formal change
management processes for identifying, documenting, tracking, and
incorporating changes to projects.
· Manage project resources
and team activities, providing feedback and ensuring project performance
aligns with plans.
· Provide regular project
reporting, including progress, risks, and blockers, for internal and
external stakeholders.
· Utilize domain knowledge
in finance, contracts, and staffing to support and align projects and
processes across the organization.

Stakeholder and Vendor Coordination
· Coordinate closely with
internal and external partners, including internal staffing external vendors, and other state agencies.

· Provide project
management oversight of vendors to ensure alignment across business operations and contractual requirements.
· Facilitate efficient
coordination and planning by serving as a central point of contact across organizations.

 Required Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in
computer science, a related IT field, business administration, project management, or a closely related degree from an
appropriately accredited institution, and 3-5 years of experience managing Medicaid or health IT technical projects; related work; or an equivalent
combination of education and experience.
· Demonstrated ability to
develop, manage, and monitor integrated master schedules and project budgets.
· Considerable knowledge of
vendor management and ensuring contract deliverables are met.
· Experience leading
projects using methodologies such as waterfall, agile, or hybrid models.
· Experience using a wide
variety of project management software, including Microsoft Project and other web-based platforms such as Jira, Asana,
Smartsheet, Workday, or Monday

Job Description

The max rate for this position is $100/hour.

The HIE Medicaid Services (HMS) program was created to formally recognize and structure the partnership between NC HIEA and NC Medicaid. The goal of the program is to leverage NC HealthConnex to support NC Medicaid’s quality and population health eƯorts by improving data exchange. The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, high-impact technical projects associated with the implementation of improved and
enhanced care management data exchange processes via NC HealthConnex. This work is federally funded under an existing Advance Planning Document (APD). Beyond the work with NC Medicaid, the Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for engaging with other payers to support exchange of claims and other supplementary information. n collaboration with the HIEA Program Manager, the HMS Senior IT Project Manager, and the HMS Program Lead, the role manages assigned HMS workstreams and supports oversight of the technical implementation vendor in close collaboration with NC Medicaid. This role requires expertise in applying recognized project management methodologies, understanding complex systems and claims exchange, and requires significant collaboration and stakeholder management across multiple internal divisions, vendors, and external state agencies.