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AlohaCare is a local, non-profit health plan serving the Medicaid and Medicare dual eligible population. We provide comprehensive managed care to qualifying health plan members through well-established partnerships with quality health care providers and community-governed health centers. Our mission is to serve individuals and communities in the true spirit of aloha by ensuring and advocating access to quality health care for all.

The Culture:

AlohaCare employees share a passion for helping Hawaii's most underserved communities. This passion for helping and caring for others is internalized and applied to our employees through a supportive and positive work environment, healthy work/life balance, continuous communication and a generous benefits package.

Position Summary:

The Project Manager has primary responsibility for overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project-oriented work to support implementation of AlohaCare's Board Strategic Plan and related corporate objectives.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage the full project life cycle including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, obtaining and managing resources, managing budget, and facilitating project execution, deployment, and closure.
• Utilize industry standard project management tools and techniques to effectively manage projects.
• Regularly tracks project progress against plans, milestones and targets, identifies deviations, escalates and takes action to ensure goals are met.
• Assist with establishment and maintenance of corporate project management methodology and other department procedures.
• Communicates with other operational areas in the organization to secure SME resources and contributions for the project and to resolve issues or mitigate risks.
• Coordinates and conducts cross-functional meetings with multiple stakeholders to meet company objectives.
• Sets priorities, allocates tasks, and coordinates project staff to meet project targets and milestones.
• Advises executives and stakeholders to develop functional strategies on matters of significance.
• Exercises independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks, and works under minimal supervision.
• Prepare reports to effectively communicate project milestone documents, dashboards, ROI tables, and overall project status.
• Responsible for maintaining AlohaCare's confidential information in accordance with AlohaCare policies, and state and federal laws, rules and regulations regarding confidentiality.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Competencies & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Associate's Degree combined with equivalent work experience, preferably in business administration, public health, management, healthcare, communications, product, marketing, or business analysis.
• Certification in Project Management, Agile Project Management, Business Analysis, or related field (for example, Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Certification, Lean Six Sigma Certifications, Scrum Master Certification, or equivalent) or the ability to obtain within 12 months of hiring.
• 3 years of professional project management experience including helping to identify project scope, deliverables, timelines, costs, and resources; tracking project progress to ensure that milestones are met on time; documenting project progress; identifying metrics for project evaluation/performance; and utilizing multiple project management approaches, including adaptive (agile), predictive (waterfall), and hybrid.
• Experience with medium complexity projects managing cross-functional teams and cross-organizational implementations with multiple dependencies.
• Excellent, effective and precise written and oral communication skills; speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and leadership skills with ability to interact with various departments/project teams.
• Possesses excellent time management, organizational, team leadership, problem solving and analytical skills; is dependable, enthusiastic, self-starting and self-motivated.
• Able to effectively work in a fast-paced and changing environment, manage multiple projects and priorities across multiple teams/projects.
• Working knowledge of Access, Excel, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint.
• Proficient knowledge of spreadsheets/graphics, presentation, and databases.
• Ability to define problems, collect and evaluate data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Prior experience in community and/or government relations.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt Certification.
• Project management information system (i.e. Microsoft Project, Planner, Smartsheet, Jira) expertise.
• Project Management Office (PMO) experience.
• Previous managed care (Medicaid or Medicare health plan) experience helpful.

Physical Demands/Working Conditions:

• May require prolonged sitting-up to 4 hours.
• Requires prolonged operation of a computer workstation, including the ability to type for extended periods of time on a keyboard during the scheduled workday.
• Ability to communicate via telephone, and to communicate verbally and in writing using English.
• May require occasional lifting, up to 20 pounds.
• Ability to work in high stress environment at times, with pressure of meeting multiple deadlines, and varying priorities.

Salary Range: $61,000 – $83,000 annually