Medicaid Eligibility Program Lead

Your Talent Team; Jackson (MS); In loco; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Your Talent Team is helping a client in the Gulf South hire a Medicaid Eligibility Project Manager. You will lead complex eligibility initiatives, aligning state leaders, vendors, and delivery teams to keep plans on track and surface risks early to ensure members receive the coverage they qualify for.

You will drive schedules, governance, and readiness activities, coordinating across teams and documenting decisions.

Competenze

• 5+ years of project management experience in large, multi-stakeholder technology or policy implementations.
• 3+ years of experience on Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, or other public assistance programs.
• Experience working with state agencies, vendors, and federal requirements.
• Strong planning, RAID management, and reporting skills using Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar tools.
• Experience with Agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Clear, calm communication with executives, policy experts, and technical teams.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Mansioni

• Plan and manage Medicaid eligibility and enrollment projects, including system changes, policy implementations, and operational improvements.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, and milestones across state agency, vendor, and delivery teams.
• Manage risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions through a disciplined RAID log, escalating early and clearly.
• Lead implementation of new federal and state requirements, including H.R. 1 provisions such as community engagement requirements and more frequent renewals, within mandated deadlines.
• Coordinate with eligibility system vendors, managed care organizations, and adjacent programs such as SNAP and MMIS.
• Facilitate status meetings, steering committees, and working sessions, and document decisions and action items.
• Prepare clear status reports and executive briefings on progress, risks, and decisions needed.
• Manage scope, change requests, and budget against contract and funding requirements, including federal funding documentation where applicable.
• Support testing, readiness, training, and go-live planning so changes land smoothly for eligibility staff and members.

Conoscenze

Strategic planning

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Strumenti

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Jira

Descrizione del lavoro

Your Talent Team is helping a client in the Gulf South hire a Medicaid Eligibility Project Manager. You will lead complex eligibility initiatives, aligning state leaders, vendors, and delivery teams to keep plans on track and surface risks early to ensure members receive the coverage they qualify for.

You will drive schedules, governance, and readiness activities, coordinating across teams and documenting decisions.