Must live within a commutable distance to Oakland, CA - Overview: The Project Manager V, National Community Health Portfolio plays an important role in driving key priorities for the office of the chief health officer to deliver on efforts related to Community Health, Social Health, and Medicaid, and other initiatives under the scope of the office. This role will provide key operational and project management support for strategic initiatives, including management of and preparation of board mat... more details
Description:
Must live within a commutable distance to Oakland, CA
Overview:
The Project Manager V, National Community Health Portfolio plays an important role in driving key priorities for the office of the chief health officer to deliver on efforts related to Community Health, Social Health, and Medicaid, and other initiatives under the scope of the office. This role will provide key operational and project management support for strategic initiatives, including management of and preparation of board materials.”
Job Summary:
Manages multiple large-scale projects from initiation to close-out. Leads the work of large project teams by monitoring internal and/or external resources and leading others in requesting and coordinating those resources. Proactively monitors, identifies, and mitigates risks, issues, and trigger events within and across projects. Ensures the alignment, buy-in, engagement, and support of project stakeholders. Reviews vendor performance levels, ensures service level agreements are met, and participates in contract negotiations with vendors.
Essential Responsibilities:
Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
Manages multiple large-scale projects with responsibility and accountability for project outcomes from initiation to close-out. Develops, analyzes, and manages complex project plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast. Manages and monitors the project financials of multiple large rojects. Monitors overall project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) against plan, ensuring measurement of business benefits and outcomes, and makes adjustments as needed. Leads project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project. Drives allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure established project management practices are in place.
Leads the work of large project teams by monitoring internal and external resources. Leads others in requesting and coordinating internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands. Communicates a clear vision of project goals and objectives to the team. Delivers performance feedback to team members supervisors.
Proactively monitors, identifies, and mitigates project risks, issues, and trigger events by developing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate.
Monitors adherence of project activities to policies and procedures by ensuring project plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.
Ensures the alignment, buy-in, engagement and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining relationships as well as communicating appropriately with internal customers, third party vendors, senior management, and business leaders; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders. Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders based on their level of influence and decision making and ensures all appropriate stakeholders are represented and included. Provides insight to key stakeholders and project sponsors by developing project goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for project delivery. Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering formal presentations, and providing reports to various senior audiences.
Reviews vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. Partners with Procurement and/or Legal to develop service level and/or scope of work agreements as appropriate. Participates in contract negotiations with vendors and reviews project invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy.
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
Minimum three (3) years experience implementing large, complex projects in a corporate, non-profit, or government environment.
Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum eight (8) years experience in project management or a directly related field OR Minimum eleven (11) years experience in project management or a directly related field.
Additional Requirements:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Negotiation; Applied Data Analysis; Financial Acumen; Conflict Resolution; Managing Diverse Relationships; Product Development Life Cycle; Project Management; Project Management Tools; Risk Assessment; Quality Assurance Process; Service Focus
Preferred Qualifications:
Four (4) years experience in business analysis.
Two (2) years experience managing operational or project budgets.
5 or more years working with an executive leadership team highly desired.
PMP highly desired
Managerial Consulting, Operations, Program Mgmt experience desirable.
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