The NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking an experienced project Manager. This management role will work with multiple internal and external stakeholders, project teams, divisions, departments, and vendors.

The NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking an experienced Project Manager. This management role will work with multiple internal and external stakeholders, project teams, divisions, departments, and vendors to strategize, implement, and maintain the various modernization initiative for social services and Medicaid programs. This position will interact with all levels of staff in DHHS including executive staff.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Review project proposals or plans to determine a time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements and the assignment of available departmental resources to various project phases.
Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline a work plan.
Establish a work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives.
Ensure that project goals are achieved.
Assign duties and responsibilities to project personnel and define the scope of their authority.
Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.
Work with business and cross-functional teams to develop Business Case and Cost Benefit analysis for prioritized initiatives within the program.
Manage multiple Vendor onboarding and identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and Vendors.
Work with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department.
Manage budget across various workstreams and funding channels for maximum productivity.
Manage resource allocations and expectations for program.
Collaborate with the State DIT to ensure program compliance with the State IT Roadmap and all State Privacy and security requirements.


Skills:
The selected candidate must be a results-oriented individual with a strong work ethic and must be able to demonstrate excellent leadership, negotiation, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills.
Experience in communicating in a fashion tailored to the audience and their needs.
Excellent written communication and presentation skills
Demonstrates experience in working effectively with all levels of staff, clients, and other IT personnel.
Experience in the responsibility for acquiring and utilizing the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timeframes, and quality for a program.
Ability to identify and plan systematic corrective action to reduce errors and improve the quality of the systems and services, by examination of the root causes of problems.
Ability to build, influence, lead and motivate effective teams towards end results.

Management prefers applicants with the following:
- Candidate with PgMP Certification
- Candidate with Agile (PMI-ACP) Certification
- Experience managing or supervising programs involving Application modernization and modularization projects.
- Experience collaborating with State and Local Government
- Experience in complex, cross-functional team environments
- Knowledge of social services and medicaid programs or similarly complex case management systems

Required/Desired Skills

Skill	Required /Desired	Amount	of Experience
Program Management experience managing multiple large complex projects	Required	3	Years
Experience creating roadmaps for the portfolio	Required	3	Years
Proven track record of delivering IT projects within budget, scope and schedule	Required	3	Years
Objective decision-making ability based on strategic objectives priority, business performance analysis and resource availability	Required	3	Years
Hands on experience managing project risk, cost, schedule, quality, testing, and communications	Required	3	Years
Strong supervision, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills	Required	3	Years
Demonstrated presentation, training skills, oral and written communication skills.	Required	3	Years
Solid work experience with project management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project)	Required	3	Years
Experience with MS Office(Word, Excel and Power point)	Required	5	Years
Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience preparing Project plan for complex business needs.	Required	5	Years
Ability to communicate effectively at all job levels, use excellent evaluation skills, and ability to relay information in legible reports as required	Required	5	Years
Experience with Agile Methodologies.	Highly desired	0
PMI certification Project Management Professional (PMP)	Desired	0
Experience with Cloud technologies & SaaS applications running on Cloud	Desired	0
Experience collaborating with Federal, State and Local Government	Highly desired	0
Experience managing implementation of a statewide IT project	Desired	0
Experience in establishing and/or implementing governance models for IT modernization efforts	Desired	0
Experience with projects related to Application transformation and Modernization	Required	2	Years

Questions

No.	Question
Question1	Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you accept this requirement?
Question2	All work must be completed on site at the client's discretion. Do you accept this requirement?
Question3	Please list candidate's email address HERE that will be used when submitting E-RTR.
Question4	Please indicate how soon this candidate is available to start work. Vendors are encouraged to submit candidates that are available for the duration of the assignment.
Question5	Vendor must disclose to the agency if the candidate will be subcontracted at the time of submission. Do you accept this requirement?
Question6	Vendor must notify the agency if any portion of the requirements listed in this task order are to be outsourced to other countries. Do you accept this requirement?
Question7	Candidates submitted above a rate of -10 per hour may not be considered. Do you accept this requirement?
Question8	Payment for all approved hours will be paid at the straight hourly rate regardless of the total hours worked by the engaged resource. It is the responsibility of the supplier to adhere to any applicable compensation laws including payment for overtime hours. Do you accept this requirement?
Question9	Please confirm you have thoroughly validated, and attest to the accuracy of, the credentials listed throughout this candidate s VectorVMS profile and resume pursuant to Section 5.2.5 of ITS-009440. Do you confirm?
Question10	Prior experience in Child welfare application is required. Please identify the location AND corresponding years below.