Job Description

Job Title: IT Healthcare Consultant – Project Manager (Advanced)

Location: Columbia, SC (Hybrid: 3 days in office, 2 days remote)

Duration: 12 Months

Work Hours: 40 hours per week

Job Summary:  We are seeking an experienced IT Healthcare Consultant – Project Manager to lead the implementation of system changes and manage projects ranging from small to large scale for MMIS and related subsystems. This position will play a key role in evaluating agency needs, analyzing business processes, and translating technical and non-technical requirements into actionable IT solutions.

The Project Manager will lead a team of business analysts, coordinate requirements development, and serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet organizational objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate system change efforts with a team of business analysts, ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures.

• Manage classification, evaluation, and prioritization of changes for relevant systems.

• Support and guide business analysts in requirements development and documentation.

• Serve as a liaison between business units and IT teams, ensuring technical solutions meet user needs.

• Analyze operations to identify strengths, weaknesses, and automation opportunities.

• Assist with business process redesign and documentation for new technologies.

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications for IT teams and manage specification changes.

• Negotiate agreements and commitments between business and IT from requirements gathering to implementation.

• Apply knowledge of technology trends to provide innovative solutions and improve enterprise competitiveness.

• Lead requirements development, including elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation.

• Document and analyze business processes, data requirements, and relationships.

• Participate in requirements management (change control, version control, status tracking, traceability).

• Provide interpretation and guidance on requirements to technical and testing teams.

• Identify risks, issues, and action items, and propose solutions.

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders (vendors, state and federal agencies, providers, beneficiaries).

• Contribute to buy-versus-build recommendations.

• Research, maintain, and document business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.

• Perform other project-related duties as assigned.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related role.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business rules and processes.

• At least 5 years of Medicaid experience.

• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write requirements and use cases.

• Ability to gather requirements through interviews, analysis of laws/regulations, and policy review.

• Knowledge of formal business process documentation.

• Familiarity with business modeling techniques and process flow tools.

• Ability to effectively communicate with executives, management, project teams, and stakeholders.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in technical, business, or healthcare-related field required.

• Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree (year-for-year substitution).

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Subject matter expertise in Medicaid or healthcare insurance (project or operations).

• Experience with MMIS (project or operations).

• Proficiency with Microsoft Project/Project Server.

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