IT Project Consultant

About the role

This position will support the Bureau of Infectious Diseases and Office of Management Information Services at the Ohio Department of Health (ODH).

Responsibilities

• Aid in the drafting of an RFP for a vendor for the state’s Immunization Information System.
• Offer feedback to project teams on process/procedure improvement opportunities and other potential areas for improvement.
• Guide teams in gathering and documenting requirements.
• Lead in identifying and documenting items needed by the project, including system architecture and platform migration.
• Provide advice on the implications of requirements as related to vendor management after contract award.
• Contribute to the establishment and meeting of quality goals and objectives for the project.
• Participate in quality assurance efforts, including setting relevant metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes.
• Review project's required work products to ensure compliance with approved tailored procedures and standards.
• Perform detailed reviews of interim and final tasks as needed.
• Assist in the development of the evaluation process and required documents such as Service Level Agreements and Data Recovery Plans.
• Utilize technical expertise to help ODH identify growth opportunities and manage resources within the contract period.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and leadership skills both written and oral.
• Strong influence, collaboration, and negotiation experience.
• Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.
• Proven organizational skills, analytical, planning, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Maintain productivity standards, complete work in a timely manner, and strive to increase productivity.
• Experience defining and developing quality standards.
• Experience conducting reviews according to schedule.
• Experience communicating and working with customers and other personnel as necessary.
• Experience reporting progress on action items / defect resolution and ensuring action items are addressed and closed in a timely manner based on agreed dates and activities.
• Experience organizing and preparing work effectively to facilitate proactive resolution of problems.
• Experience mentoring and sharing knowledge with State staff.
• Experience developing Requests for Proposals for IT system contracts with the State of Ohio.
• Previous experience working with ODH IT applications.
• Knowledge of ODH departments and ability to collect RFP requirements from affected users.
• Knowledge and understanding of ODH applications used for immunization registry.
• Familiarity with the ODH RFP process.

Qualifications

• US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, L2-EAD, GC-EAD work authorization.