Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GovCIO is currently hiring for a Project Manager to support the Health Services Portfolio Technical Management and Strategic Solutioning Support (HTMS) program within the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Project Manager will lead client interactions, oversee project deliverables, and ensure quality work products in a dynamic and evolving environment.
Responsibilities
- Creates integrated project plans for contract deliverables and new products in development projects
- Reviews, manages and controls status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports
- Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
- Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with team members and line managers
- Generally reports to a Program Manager
- Manages the direction of a project through the design, implementation, and testing in accordance with project objectives
- Defines requirements and plans project lifecycle deployment
- Schedules tasks and coordinates with various team members to accomplish the results
- Manages the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables
- Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables
- Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking, analysis and reporting
- Supports program management, governance, oversight, and executive level reporting
- Manages competing priorities, address data calls, and provide ongoing progress reports
- Documents and provides recommendations for technical management approaches on projects/products
- Creates strategic roadmaps, with alignment to goals and operations plans
- Documents, tracks, and monitors project, program, system, product, and various performance metrics and report progress with recommendations or innovative approaches for improvement, organizational maturity, and/or optimization
- Supports fast turnaround requests for data calls
- Understands the client’s business issues and data challenges; performs gap analysis and recommend solutions
Skills
- Master's Degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline is required, plus 10 years of commensurate work experience, 10 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
- Strong experience with projects which require well organized management, tracking and communications of complex product development dependencies
- Strong communication skills (oral and written) to relay concise messaging and reporting to all levels of management
- Great interpersonal skills and ability to work independently with minimal guidance/supervision
- Strong analytical and investigation skills crafting solutions to challenging problems or issues
- Strong experience in developing presentations and slides for communicating technical and non-technical subjects to both small and large audiences
- Must be able to identify and mitigate risks to the project, and escalate program risks, as necessary
- PM-related certifications such as PMP and ITIL preferred
- Experience supporting or leading within the Veterans Affairs Office of Information and Technology, Veterans Benefits Administration, and/or Veterans Health Administration is a plus
- Knowledge of VA Telehealth Management Platform (TMP), VistA telehealth scheduling, or comparable telehealth platform management highly desired
- Familiarity with HL7 scheduling message standards and VistA-TMP integration architecture a plus
- Experience with VHA telehealth workflows, Facility Telehealth Coordinator (FTC) roles, and VA Video Connect (VVC) highly desired
- Proven VA (or similar government agency) IT development track record highly desired
- Ability to proactively communicate and coordinate with various internal and external project stakeholders, depending on needs
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