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Sikich is hiring a Project Manager to coordinate planning and delivery across the CMS iQIES program. The role manages concurrent workstreams, facilitates SAFe Agile ceremonies and feature refinement, and coordinates stakeholders, contractors, risks, and program documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day project coordination across iQIES workstreams, tracking tasks, milestones, and dependencies
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and work breakdown structures for assigned initiatives
• Maintain risk and issue logs in JIRA; track mitigation strategies and escalate blockers proactively
• Monitor project progress across concurrent workstreams and flag risks or schedule impacts early
• Provide project status updates, executive summaries, and briefings to the iQIES Program Lead and CMS leadership
• Participate actively in SAFe Agile ceremonies within the iQIES Agile Release Train (ART): PI Planning, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Lead feature review and refinement sessions — working with the Product Owner and delivery teams to ensure features are clearly defined, properly scoped, acceptance criteria are testable, and stories are sprint-ready
• Maintain and groom the program-level backlog in JIRA, ensuring epics, features, and stories are current and sequenced
• Serve as backup Release Train Engineer (RTE) for the iQIES ART when needed — facilitating ART ceremonies, removing impediments, and ensuring teams stay aligned to PI objectives
• Coordinate PI Planning logistics and preparation, including team readiness, input materials, and scheduling
• Plan, facilitate, and document iQIES program meetings — working sessions, stakeholder reviews, coordination calls, and governance forums
• Prepare agendas, pre-read materials, and presentations; capture and distribute meeting minutes and action items
• Track action items from meetings through to completion, following up with owners across all teams
• Align DQI project activities with CMS's established Agile and Lean Portfolio practices
• Develop, coordinate, and help manage Agile work products, including epics, features, backlog items, roadmaps, and other planning artifacts needed to advance the initiative
• Support prioritization and sequencing of work based on dependencies, readiness, risks, and program priorities
• Facilitate planning sessions, working groups, and other forums needed to coordinate activities and move implementation forward
• Ensure project work and progress are visible through established CMS program and portfolio management processes
• Serve as a coordination point across CMS program offices (CCSQ, QSOG/SOG, DQSAS/ISG) and contractor teams
• Ensure clear and timely communication of priorities, decisions, and status across all stakeholder groups
• Support preparation of executive-level materials, briefings, and presentations for CMS leadership
• Facilitate alignment across teams on shared dependencies, timelines, and deliverables
• Identify process gaps across iQIES program operations and develop or refine procedures, SOPs, and templates
• Maintain and improve shared program documentation in Confluence and SharePoint
• Support continuous improvement of program management practices, tools, and governance structures
• Provide support for emerging, time-sensitive, or high-visibility project needs
• Support special initiatives, leadership requests, and cross-program coordination efforts
• Ensure responsiveness to evolving CCSQ priorities while maintaining alignment with project objectives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) required
• 7+ years of progressive experience in project management or program coordination in federal IT or health IT environments
• Required SAFe Agile experience — active participation in PI Planning, sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, and ART-level coordination
• Demonstrated experience leading feature review and refinement sessions with cross-functional teams
• Experience managing backlogs, user stories, and project tracking in JIRA and Confluence
• Experience facilitating and documenting meetings, working sessions, and governance forums
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex information for technical and executive audiences
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and priorities in a fast-paced federal program environment
• Servant Leader – You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture
• Solutions Focused – You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
• Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible
• Impact & Influence Thinking – You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives/objectives
• SAFe certification or Agile certification
• Prior CMS, CCSQ, DQSAS/ISG experience strongly preferred
• iQIES program knowledge strongly preferred — familiarity with iQIES system workflows, assessment instruments (MDS, OASIS, HOPE, IRF-PAI, LCDS), or the Survey & Certification (S&C) program
• Experience developing dashboards, reporting tools, or executive-level briefings
• Familiarity with FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) awareness of FHIR-based data exchange concepts as they apply to federal health IT programs
• Experience serving as or supporting a Release Train Engineer (RTE) in a SAFe ART environment
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification