Consultant - Project Manager

About Us:

NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company, advising agencies, organizations, institutions, and businesses since 1996. We're independent and vendor-neutral, so we have our clients' best interests at heart. At NYSTEC, we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally, so our benefits and perks support that mindset.

About the Role:

As a New York Health Equity Reform (NYHER) project manager in the Account Management and Client Strategy practice area, you will collaborate with team members to support multiple projects across offices within the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH).

Serving as a NYHER project manager, your day-to-day role as a NYSTEC consultant will include providing support in coordinating projects to expand the capacity of NYSDOH by providing data-driven insights and analyses for multiple NYSDOH programs. You will be supporting New York's Medicaid program, which recently received approval for a new program called the New York Health Equity Reform (NYHER) Waiver.

For this role, you will be required to attend in-person meetings at the client site at a minimum of once per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and schedule meetings.
• Update agendas and action items.
• Maintain project status logs.
• Provide project updates to stakeholders.

About you:

Required Qualifications

• Experience as a project manager within healthcare, Medicaid, or other public sector programs, policies, or systems.
• Experience updating, maintaining, and managing projects and project logs.
• Strong communicator and organizer.

Preferred/Desired Qualifications

• Experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC).

Education and Experience

• A bachelor's degree in business, public health, health informatics, mathematics, public health, or a related discipline and five years of related experience.
• An equivalent combination of advanced education, training, and experience will be considered.

It is NYSTEC's policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all individuals, regardless of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, military service and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws and ordinances. NYSTEC is strongly committed to this policy and believes in the concept and spirit of the law.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact recruitment@nystec.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for or to perform this job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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