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Job type full-time
Full job description
About the company:
Avalon healthcare solutions, headquartered in tampa, florida, is a clinical services and information technology company using evidence-based medicine to develop and deploy medical policies and protocols in the high-volume, dynamic and complex diagnostic lab environmentThe company manages the appropriate use of thousands of existing lab tests and researches new tests to determine efficacy and impact on patient care.
Studies show that 30% of clinical laboratory testing is unnecessary or overusedInappropriate testing or missing a key screening can lead to complications and expense arising from unwarranted care, or not obtaining proper care when needed, leading to increased health risks and costsAvalon helps ensure delivery of the right test, at the right time, and in the right settingWe seek to ensure the most effective patient treatment, improve clinical outcomes, and optimize cost and affordability.
Avalon is a portfolio company of francisco partners, a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled service companiesSince its launch 15 years ago, fp has raised approximately $10 billion and invested in more than 150 companies.
Avalon is a high growth company where every associate has an opportunity to make a differenceYou will be part of a team that shapes a new market and businessYou’ll enjoy seeing the results of your work as we rapidly implement our planMost importantly, you will help avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.
For more about avalon, please visit our web site at http://www.avalonhcs.com.
About the technical project manager position:
The technical project manager will be responsible for managing multiple, simultaneous, diverse projects spanning the organizationThe candidate will need to be able to professionally interact with internal and external groups to accomplish his/her objectivesThe groups include product development, business development, client management, consultants, and customersWorking with the various groups, the technical project manager will need to clarify the scope, solidify the requirements, build projects plans, monitor progress, and report on successes and challenges.
This is a dynamic role in a complex environment, and on any given day, the role may swing between or focus on project management and business analyst roles, and the candidate will need to be able to seamlessly switch between themThe technical project manager is expected to establish the necessary processes to be successful and continually improve and refine them.
Avalon healthcare solutions is based in tampa, floridaThis position is eligible for remote teleworkThis is a full-time, w-2 positionAt this time, we can consider only candidates authorized to work in the usNo sponsorship is availableNo recruiter calls, please.
Technical project manager - essential functions and responsibilities:
Works with agile development tools to clearly communication priorities and objectives in each sprint and globally for epicsEnhancing or developing the necessary reports and visuals as appropriateRoutinely reports to management and stakeholders progress status updates.
Documents requirements for projects, reaching throughout the organization to obtain clarification, and ensuring stakeholder agreement on scope, expectations, and success criteria.
Establish and enforce best practices for documenting detailed requirements, use cases, process flows, data flows, context diagrams, wire frames, data mapping documents, data dictionaries and other documents needed to clearly define and support the evolving needs of the company.
Represents data analytics on the core implementation team, conveying requirements and constraints between the cit and data analyticsEnsuring data analytics understands the business and technical requirements to achieve client requirements for a successful implementation.
Work collaboratively and constructively with all internal and external customers in a professional mannerStrong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work comfortably and effectively with management and staff at all levels of the organizationStrong verbal and written communication skills required.
Other duties as assigned.
Technical project manager - qualifications:
Minimum of three (3) years as a project manager with prior experience as a technical business or operations analyst working in a health plan it or operational environment.
Minimum of three (3) years of experience working in a matrix organization, delivering projects or managing resources that do not report directly to you
Experience in health care administration, especially on the payer side, or related to claims administration.
Comfortable in a high-visibility, individual contributor role with the ability to work cross-functionally and with all levels of the organization.
Demonstrated ability to lead a team through problem solving and creative solutioning
Demonstrated ability to deliver results
Hands-on experience working with health plan claims, membership and prior authorization data.
Strong written and oral communication skillsAbility to create and deliver presentations on a specific topic to varying audiencesAble to collaborate and encourage an environment for creative excellencePromote continuous innovation and improvement.
Strong change management and documentation skillsExperience with agile, waterfall and hybrid project delivery methodologies.
Able to support multiple projects with minimal direction and supervision.
Knowledge and experience with hipaa regulations and standards for security (phi, iihi), privacy and transactions.
Creative thinking skills with the ability to ask the needed bigger-picture questions that lead to process improvements and anticipating needs beyond what is being specifically asked.
Technical project manager - preferred qualifications/skills:
At least 5 to 7 years of project management experience and knowledge working with multiple health plan operational processes and applications supporting multiple operational areas.
Experience as a lead business analyst on multiple projects of medium to high complexity involving custom and vendor supported solutions across multiple operational and technical functions.
Serve as the functional sme for applications and processes supported, including the underlying infrastructure and dataAbility to orient and train others on functional useUnderstand and consider the relationship between related processes.
Master’s or advance degree preferred.
Knowledge of jira and smartsheet tools preferred.
Knowledge or experience with clinical data is a plus (hl7, lab, emr).
