Project Manager
Overview:
Tantus Technologies, Inc.
(Tantus) - recognized by the Washington Post as a Top Workplace - is seeking a Project Manager who will lead and oversee support in the areas of planning, organizing, managing, coordinating, and tracking programs operations and activities from planning to completion.
This includes schedule management, report management, cost/schedule/performance monitoring, and risk and issue management.
The Project Manager works closely with our federal counterpart to understand and fully support the program needs by bringing value through systems and projects.
The Project Manager must coordinate across an Integrated Product Team (IPT) consisting of application developers, training specialist, survey subject matter experts and data analytics, and other specialized stakeholders to deliver program support in a coordinated and clearly communicated fashion.
In accordance with applicable law and Company policy, full vaccination against COVID-19 is required for this position, and proof of full vaccination status will be required on the first day of employment.
What You'll Do:
Understand all the activities within the Project and ensure coordinated action among tasks and activities.
Provide management, development, and supervision to a team of up to 8 staff.
Coach and mentor resources; resolve performance issues; provide performance feedback in scheduled reviews; manage time sheets for direct reports; manage work quality, work allocation, and work satisfaction for the project team.
Maintain position descriptions and conduct interviews for new team members as necessary.
Establish relationships and communication channels with the CMS customers.
Integrate plans across the various programs and products, and understand activities and processes occurring outside the project that may impact smooth operations.
Ensure standardization is established by the contract and/or CMS is followed across all program activities; corrects and reports on any issues with deviation from the standardization.
Facilitate information sharing and coordination across project team members, including program-level team meetings, management meetings, status meetings, and other ad hoc meetings.
Design, develop, contribute to, and maintain program and project management-related documents which could include but are not limited to:
program charter, program process agreement, program roadmaps, risk register, issues list, action items, decision log, retrospective logs.
Communicate with other contractors to solve issues and ensure alignment of priorities.
Analyze project pain points and gaps and make process improvement recommendations; implement recommendations as required; Establish and maintain a repository of project-related documents.
Provide ad-hoc reports to address topics or issues as requested by CMS.
These include but are not limited to white papers, options papers, executive summaries, SBARs (Situation, Background, Assessment/Alternatives, and Recommendations).
Communicate from a Project level with CMS staff on various topics including but not limited to meeting topics, status reports, risk, issues, mitigation strategies, release planning, etc.
Perform quantitative and qualitative risk analysis of identified risks on a schedule determined by CMS.
Assist CMS management and staff in preparing responses to positive and negative risks, opportunities, or threats.
Document lessons learned prevention plan or exploitation plan from resolved risks and issues or opportunities in an accessible manner for the use of CMS staff and stakeholders.
Serve as strategic partner with CMS and drive programs toward overall strategic objectives.
Contribute to Tantus Corporate Business Development efforts, to include planning, evaluating and responding to Requests for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) from various government agencies as well as contract management documentation such as PMR reporting as requested.
Must Haves:
5 -7 years in program management, managing multiple projects.
3-5 years project management experience minimum.
Experience working across integrated program teams.
Federal government agency work experience.
Understanding of CMMI ML3 processes preferred.
Experience working with agile implementations.
Strong analytical experience and experience putting in place new processes/procedures to enhance business functions.
Ability to coordinate a team and provide direction for their personal development.
Demonstrated skill in the management and control of schedule, funds, and resources.
Demonstrated ability in managing complex programs and and multiple projects at the same time.
Demonstrated ability to manage project risks and issues.
Excellent client and team building skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice to Haves:
Bachelor's degree; advanced degree preferred or the equivalent combination of education and experiencePMP certificationAgile CertificationsScaled Agile Framework (SAFe) training and experienceExperience using Atlassian tools, JIRA and Confluence as well as Slack and the MS Office SuiteUnderstanding of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Tantus Technologies, Inc.
(Tantus) - recognized by the Washington Post as a Top Workplace - is seeking a Project Manager who will lead and oversee support in the areas of planning, organizing, managing, coordinating, and tracking programs operations and activities from planning to completion.
This includes schedule management, report management, cost/schedule/performance monitoring, and risk and issue management.
The Project Manager works closely with our federal counterpart to understand and fully support the program needs by bringing value through systems and projects.
The Project Manager must coordinate across an Integrated Product Team (IPT) consisting of application developers, training specialist, survey subject matter experts and data analytics, and other specialized stakeholders to deliver program support in a coordinated and clearly communicated fashion.
In accordance with applicable law and Company policy, full vaccination against COVID-19 is required for this position, and proof of full vaccination status will be required on the first day of employment.
What You'll Do:
Understand all the activities within the Project and ensure coordinated action among tasks and activities.
Provide management, development, and supervision to a team of up to 8 staff.
Coach and mentor resources; resolve performance issues; provide performance feedback in scheduled reviews; manage time sheets for direct reports; manage work quality, work allocation, and work satisfaction for the project team.
Maintain position descriptions and conduct interviews for new team members as necessary.
Establish relationships and communication channels with the CMS customers.
Integrate plans across the various programs and products, and understand activities and processes occurring outside the project that may impact smooth operations.
Ensure standardization is established by the contract and/or CMS is followed across all program activities; corrects and reports on any issues with deviation from the standardization.
Facilitate information sharing and coordination across project team members, including program-level team meetings, management meetings, status meetings, and other ad hoc meetings.
Design, develop, contribute to, and maintain program and project management-related documents which could include but are not limited to:
program charter, program process agreement, program roadmaps, risk register, issues list, action items, decision log, retrospective logs.
Communicate with other contractors to solve issues and ensure alignment of priorities.
Analyze project pain points and gaps and make process improvement recommendations; implement recommendations as required; Establish and maintain a repository of project-related documents.
Provide ad-hoc reports to address topics or issues as requested by CMS.
These include but are not limited to white papers, options papers, executive summaries, SBARs (Situation, Background, Assessment/Alternatives, and Recommendations).
Communicate from a Project level with CMS staff on various topics including but not limited to meeting topics, status reports, risk, issues, mitigation strategies, release planning, etc.
Perform quantitative and qualitative risk analysis of identified risks on a schedule determined by CMS.
Assist CMS management and staff in preparing responses to positive and negative risks, opportunities, or threats.
Document lessons learned prevention plan or exploitation plan from resolved risks and issues or opportunities in an accessible manner for the use of CMS staff and stakeholders.
Serve as strategic partner with CMS and drive programs toward overall strategic objectives.
Contribute to Tantus Corporate Business Development efforts, to include planning, evaluating and responding to Requests for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) from various government agencies as well as contract management documentation such as PMR reporting as requested.
Must Haves:
5 -7 years in program management, managing multiple projects.
3-5 years project management experience minimum.
Experience working across integrated program teams.
Federal government agency work experience.
Understanding of CMMI ML3 processes preferred.
Experience working with agile implementations.
Strong analytical experience and experience putting in place new processes/procedures to enhance business functions.
Ability to coordinate a team and provide direction for their personal development.
Demonstrated skill in the management and control of schedule, funds, and resources.
Demonstrated ability in managing complex programs and and multiple projects at the same time.
Demonstrated ability to manage project risks and issues.
Excellent client and team building skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice to Haves:
Bachelor's degree; advanced degree preferred or the equivalent combination of education and experiencePMP certificationAgile CertificationsScaled Agile Framework (SAFe) training and experienceExperience using Atlassian tools, JIRA and Confluence as well as Slack and the MS Office SuiteUnderstanding of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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