Project Manager with Rural Health Transformation

About the role

Location: Remote. Duration: Long Term.

Responsibilities

• Document Management: Organize and archive project artifacts in the State-designated repository.
• Project Scheduling: Create and maintain updated schedules with milestones, dependencies, and task completion percentages; weekly updates required.
• Status Reporting: Provide detailed project status reports using the State's Project Management Tool (PPMT).
• Risk/Issue Management: Maintain risk/issue logs, provide recommendations, and hold monthly risk meetings.
• Facilitate Project Activities: Manage all project activities including procurement processes.
• Stakeholder Analysis: Produce and update stakeholder registers.
• Meeting Facilitation: Lead project meetings (status, backlog grooming, release planning, risk/issue reviews, etc.), prepare agendas 24 hours before and minutes within 24 hours after.
• Financial Tracking: Track project financials and budgets using EPMO tools.
• Decision & Action Logs: Maintain logs of project decisions and action items.
• Change Management: Ensure scope, schedule, budget, and resource changes are reviewed and formally accepted.
• Deliverable Tracking: Maintain deliverable approval matrices, ensure completion of Deliverable Expectation Documents (DEDs) and Deliverable Acceptance Forms (DAFs).
• Lessons Learned: Conduct lessons learned activities and produce reports at project completion.
• Project Closeout: Produce a final closeout report.

Requirements

Skills

• Strong organizational skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to maintain document repository organization
• Ability to ensure planning documentation is adhered to

Certifications & Training

• PMP Certification (mandatory)
• HIPAA Training (mandatory)

Professional Standards

• Must behave professionally; replacement required for misconduct or underperformance.
• Must be employees of the contractor (W2 basis), not independent contractors.
• Must comply with non-discrimination laws.
• Must be eligible for U.S. employment.
• Must pass national criminal background checks (no disqualifying records related to security, financial crimes, or misuse of IT systems).

Experience Preference

• Vendors should propose PMs with experience in similar missions and familiarity with EPMO process expectations.
• Prior demonstrated experience as a skilled PM is part of evaluation criteria.