Program Manager

Job Title: Program Manager
Location: Hillsboro, OR

Requisition ID: 20031-26

**Please note that the Level of Effort (LOE) for this project is approximately 30 hours per week, with deliverables due every three weeks. Please prepare and submit your proposals accordingly.**

The Office of Information Services (OIS) is a shared service provider for the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS). OIS provides the technology systems and services that support more than 18,000 OHA and ODHS agency staff at local offices and facilities around the state. These systems and services help the two agencies determine client service program eligibility; provide medical, housing, food and job assistance; provide addiction, mental health, vocational and rehabilitative services; protect children, seniors and people with physical and/or developmental disabilities; process claims and benefits; manage provider licensing and state hospital facilities; and promote and protect the state public health.        

OIS seeks an experienced Program Manager to support the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory (OSPHL) with the implementation of a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). In addition to supporting the Senior Project Manager, this Program Manager will focus on: organizational change management, internal and external communications, team coordination, maintaining the decision log, and curating vendor feedback from OSPHL team.

Scope:

Contractor’s Key Person under this WOC will perform project management duties for the OSPHL LIMS Replacement project and other OSPHL projects, as assigned. 

Tasks:

Contractor’s Key Person shall:

•       Project manage multiple complex and detailed project schedules.
•       Maintain project timelines, milestones, and critical paths.
•       Monitor and control projects to assure timely completion.
•       Advise on and escalate key risks and issues that impact the projects.
•       Collaborate with managers and advocate for OSPHL resources to be allocated to the appropriate project tasks.
•       Respond to requests for information from LIMS vendor or members of the OSPHL team.
•       Support applications for funding opportunities to support this project work.
•       Liaise with OIS SE3 team and provide support.
•       Liaise with the OSPHL team to support organizational change management and User Acceptance.
•       Coordinate with the OSPHL team to project manage the User Acceptance testing effort for the LIMS Replacement Project.
•       Perform other OSPHL IT Project Management duties, as assigned.
• •  Write project status reports, every other week (biweekly), to document all activities performed, including (but not limited to):

o    Status on all activities listed in the bullets above.

o    Work on resource capacity reports to identify OSPHL resources that are over-allocated and under-utilized.

o    Any ad hoc reports needed for OSPHL management to make informed decisions.

o    Efforts on project planning and scheduling.

o    Updates to the project planner with new LIMS Subprojects based on input from laboratory management team.

o    Assistance provided to complete EIS project deliverables for the Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Replacement Project and other related subprojects.

Required skills and experience:

•           Office 365
•           Prior state government experience
•           Project Management
•           Exceptional communication skills
•           Ability to work effectively remotely
•           Project Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
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In addition, the ideal candidate will have skills and experience in:

•   Organization Change Management in a Laboratory or Clinical Care setting.
•  Project Management experience in a Laboratory or Clinical Care setting.  
•  Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) methodologies.