Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sikich is a professional services company providing consulting, technology, and compliance solutions to public and private sector clients. The Project Manager leads planning, execution, and delivery across CMS/CCSQ programs and Lines of Business, managing scope, schedules, deliverables, risks, dependencies, reporting, governance, and stakeholder engagement in a federal health IT environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead execution of larger or more complex projects involving multiple teams, workstreams, or LOBs
- Lead planning and execution of project activities, ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, and delivery objectives
- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and work breakdown structures
- Coordinate across project teams to ensure timely execution of tasks and milestones
- Support planning and execution of key program activities, including PI Planning, governance meetings, and project reviews
- Provide oversight across multiple concurrent projects or workstreams, ensuring alignment and prioritization
- Manage day-to-day coordination across cross-functional teams, including technical, program, and stakeholder groups
- Ensure alignment between project activities, priorities, and dependencies
- Monitor project progress and proactively address execution challenges
- Facilitate resolution of cross-team dependencies and delivery risks
- Lead development and quality review of project reporting artifacts and executive deliverables
- Develop and maintain project-level reporting, including status updates, risks, and performance metrics
- Provide visibility into project performance through dashboards, executive summaries, and status reports
- Ensure accuracy and consistency of data used in reporting and decision-making
- Support tracking of KPIs, OKRs, and other performance indicators
- Identify, track, and manage risks, issues, and dependencies across project activities
- Maintain risk and issue logs in CMS-approved tools (e.g., Jira)
- Coordinate with teams to monitor mitigation strategies and escalate issues as needed
- Ensure alignment with CMS risk management processes and frameworks
- Serve as primary point of contact for project delivery, stakeholder coordination, and issue resolution
- Serve as a key point of coordination between project teams, leadership, and stakeholders
- Ensure clear and consistent communication of project priorities, progress, and decisions
- Support preparation and delivery of executive-level materials, briefings, and updates
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment across teams and program areas
- Support refinement of project management processes, governance structures, and delivery practices
- Ensure adherence to established governance structures, processes, and standards
- Support implementation of project management practices aligned to CMS and CCSQ expectations
- Contribute to continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and templates
- Promote transparency, accountability, and consistency across project activities
- Mentor and guide junior project management staff, supporting onboarding and development
- Coordinate closely with the Portfolio Manager and LOB Leads on high-visibility initiatives and cross-program efforts
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS)
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability for government client
- 8+ years of experience managing projects within federal IT or health IT environments
- Demonstrated experience leading complex or multi-workstream projects
- Experience managing stakeholder engagement across multiple teams or organizations
- Experience overseeing project performance, reporting, and delivery outcomes
- Strong leadership, coordination, and decision-making skills
- 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
- Prior CMS, HHS, or CCSQ/ISG experience strongly preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- SAFe certification or Agile certification
- Experience supporting multiple concurrent projects or workstreams within a portfolio environment
- Familiarity with CCSQ Lines of Business (HQR, QPP, CQP/QIO, iQIES, EQRS) or similar programs
- Experience supporting risk management processes (e.g., RIMP, ROAM)
- Experience developing dashboards, reporting tools, or executive-level briefings
- Experience supporting governance processes and stakeholder engagement across programs
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy, including paid time off for personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, and sick leave; FTO is activated on the first day with the organization for full-time employees, as the role permits.
- Paid holidays during the year and time off during the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
- A comprehensive wellness program with activities that can be tracked through the wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.
- Flexible work arrangements
- Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
- HSA employer contribution
- Eleven (11) paid holidays annually.
- A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
- 401(k) with employer contributions
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous employee referral bonus program
- Client referral bonus program
- Pet insurance
- FORCE – Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.
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