Project Manager

The following document contains the samples tasks and qualifications for this MNSITE Event.

Sample Tasks

• Provide leadership for program/project for projects with Minnesota Eligibility Technology System (METS) and System Modernization technical solution impacts including technical, resource, schedule, communication, and financial plans.
• Management of pre-identified METS and System Modernization project portfolios.
• Communicate and incorporate business owner’s visions, business plans, and key objectives. Establish and communicate clear performance expectations to members of the METS and System Modernization IT solutions.
• Provide updates as required by MNIT, METS and System Modernization Portfolio Management teams and DHS leadership.
• Provide project management and vendor management mentoring to State and other vendor staff as required.
• Foster a culture that supports and drives staff engagement and collaboration in support of State objectives.
• Establish, manage, and leverage business and technology relationships both internal and external to the METS and System Modernization IT solutions.
• Provide strategic vision and thinking with focus on outcomes.
• Create clear and attainable project/program objectives.
• Create clear and attainable project/program requirements.
• Manage program/project constraints of cost, time, and scope.
• Form close links with team members and stakeholders.
• Provide knowledge transfer.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five (5) years’ experience in Program/Project Management role
  • A Master’s degree substitutes for three years of experience, or a Bachelor’s degree substitutes for two years, or an Associate’s degree substitutes for one year.
• Two (2) years’ experience working with State Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) process.
• Two (2) years’ experience working with the Federal Advanced Planning Document (APD) process.

Desired Skills

• Two (2) engagements lasting more than six (6) months in Program/Project Manager role.
• Two (2) years’ experience working with public healthcare exchange or marketplace systems.
• Demonstrable leadership ability.
• Ability to direct & manage program/project development from beginning to end.
• Ability to define program/project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with project sponsors and stakeholders.
• Ability to estimate program/project resource requirements and participants needed to achieve goals including changes during where necessary.
• Ability to identify and manage program/project dependencies and critical path.
• Ability to establish program/project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools and tracking such milestones and deliverables.
• Ability to manage changes in program/project scope, identify potential crises or issues, and devise contingency plans as appropriate.
• Ability to communicate program/project plans, expectations, updates, progress, issues, and successes in a timely & clear fashion when necessary.

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