Req ID: 396738
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We are currently seeking a Expanded IV&V Project Manager to join our team in Concord, New Hampshire (US-NH), United States (US).
Overview of job:
The Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Project Manager will lead the day-to-day management, delivery, and quality of a multidisciplinary team providing Expanded IV&V services for a large-scale health and human services system modernization project. This is a hands-on project management and consulting role. In addition to leading the team, the Project Manager will work alongside team members to conduct assessments, analyze project information, facilitate work sessions, develop deliverables and recommendations, support procurement and advisory activities, and complete other project work needed to meet contractual commitments.
Expanded IV&V services extend beyond traditional independent assessment and include project management, procurement support, strategic planning, business process redesign, requirements and business analysis, federal Advance Planning Document support, organizational change management, quality assurance, and other functional and technical advisory services. The Project Manager will coordinate and actively contribute across these workstreams, manage schedules and dependencies, oversee deliverable development, and ensure that work products are accurate, complete, evidence-based, internally consistent, actionable, and aligned with contractual, State, federal, and client requirements.
During procurement, the Project Manager will actively support requirements and use case development, procurement documentation and evaluation activities, business process redesign, strategic planning and roadmap development, Advance Planning Documents, organizational change management, and other procurement-readiness activities. When the project transitions into Design, Development, and Implementation (DDI), the Project Manager will lead and participate in independent IV&V assessments of the Solution vendor while continuing applicable Expanded IV&V advisory services. The Project Manager will ensure significant risks, deficiencies, findings, and recommendations are clearly documented, communicated, and tracked to support State and federal stakeholder decision-making.
The position is hybrid, with the possibility of up to 25% travel to the client location in Concord, New Hampshire.
Job Responsibilities Include:
- Lead the day-to-day management of the Expanded IV&V team while serving as a working member of the team, directly performing project management, analysis, assessment, facilitation, deliverable development, reporting, and other project activities needed to meet contractual commitments.
- Manage client relationships and expectations and work directly with client leadership to plan and execute project activities, establish priorities, facilitate decisions, address risks and concerns, and ensure Expanded IV&V services remain aligned with project needs.
- Develop, maintain, and actively manage project plans, schedules, assignments, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, actions, dashboards, documentation, and status reporting using required State project management tools and processes.
- Establish and apply quality standards across Expanded IV&V workstreams, personally reviewing, editing, and contributing to client deliverables to ensure work products are accurate, complete, evidence-based, consistent across workstreams, actionable, and compliant with contractual, State, and federal requirements.
- Directly support procurement activities, including development and review of requirements, use cases, procurement documents, proposal evaluation plans, evaluation criteria, vendor proposal evaluation materials, procurement reporting, risk and schedule analysis, and other work products needed to support procurement and contracting activities.
- Lead and participate in strategic planning, future-state capability assessment, CCWIS roadmap development, business process redesign, requirements and business analysis, and federal Advance Planning Document activities, including facilitating work sessions and developing, reviewing, and refining associated work products.
- Lead and participate in Organizational Change Management activities, including change requirements, stakeholder engagement, change readiness activities, change impact analysis, implementation planning, communications, training considerations, and other activities needed to prepare stakeholders and the organization for implementation.
- Work alongside functional and technical subject matter experts across requirements and traceability, interfaces and interoperability, data quality, data conversion, testing, training, user experience, security, architecture, and other project areas, integrating cross-workstream dependencies and directly contributing to analyses, recommendations, and deliverables as appropriate.
- During DDI, lead and participate in independent IV&V assessments of State and Solution vendor project management, system development lifecycle processes, plans, schedules, risks, project performance, artifacts, deliverables, and implementation activities, developing evidence-based findings, impacts, risks, and recommendations.
- Develop and contribute to high-quality weekly and monthly status reports, periodic IV&V assessment reports, executive briefings, findings and recommendations, presentations, and other State and federal communications, ensuring significant risks, issues, deficiencies, recommendations, and decisions are appropriately documented, escalated, communicated, and tracked.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 8 years total professional work experience.
- Minimum 5 years of project management experience, including experience managing large-scale health and human services, public-sector, or comparable complex information technology modernization initiatives.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams responsible for multiple concurrent workstreams, deliverables, subject matter experts, schedules, dependencies, stakeholder communications, and quality management.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, equivalent industry certification, or equivalent industry expertise managing large-scale health and human services modernization projects.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience leading and conducting Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), quality assurance, project assessment, or independent oversight activities for a large-scale technology implementation.
- Experience personally assessing project plans, processes, schedules, risks, vendor performance, deliverables, or implementation activities and developing evidence-based findings and recommendations.
- Experience with Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS), child welfare case management, Medicaid, or other large health and human services modernization initiatives.
- Experience supporting public-sector technology procurements, including requirements and use case development, procurement documents, proposal evaluation planning, evaluation criteria, and vendor proposal evaluation.
- Experience with business analysis, requirements management, business process redesign, strategic planning, future-state capability planning, or technology roadmap development.
- Experience supporting federal Advance Planning Documents or other federal funding and approval activities for health and human services technology projects.
- Knowledge of Organizational Change Management practices and methodologies, including Prosci, ADKAR, change readiness, stakeholder engagement, and change impact analysis.
- Experience working across multidisciplinary functional and technical workstreams such as data, interfaces, architecture, security, testing, training, user experience, and system implementation.
- Experience developing, reviewing, and editing executive-level reports, assessments, project deliverables, findings, recommendations, presentations, and other client-facing work products.
- Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Jira, or comparable tools, and consulting experience supporting state government or health and human services clients.
Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting pay range for this role is $124,166 to $183,950. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally required benefits.
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