Job SummaryProject Manager - Senior Analyst
Aptive is seeking a Senior Analyst to serve as a Project Manager in support of a VHA client team. This individual will help design and implement lean, responsive processes to support strategic planning, decision-making, and project execution.
This position requires strong customer interaction skills and a demonstrated ability to work with senior-level stakeholders across multiple projects. The successful candidate will be proactive, with demonstrated success in developing executive-level briefings and strategy materials while managing multiple concurrent tasks in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment. The analyst will work directly with senior-level client leadership to track and manage projects, develop briefings and written materials, generate strategic recommendations to solve operational challenges, facilitate working sessions with a broad range of stakeholders, and provide administrative and programmatic support. The candidate must also have ability to work and communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
Primary Responsibilities
- Support project planning, schedule management, risk identification and mitigation, leadership reporting, and project execution activities.
- Develop a wide range of project management artifacts, including presentations, operating procedures, workflows, correspondence, etc.
- Manage multiple concurrent tasks, coordinate project meetings and working sessions, and draft and distribute project communications.
- Assist in defining and documenting business rules, decision flows, and responsibilities.
- Schedule, lead, and attend meetings with senior clients on a regular basis.
- Monitor the status of deliverables through completion, ensuring on-time delivery and ongoing reporting of status, risks, and timelines.
- Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to collect input, data, and approvals of work products.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant project management experience. May substitute 4 years, if candidate is a licensed healthcare professional (RN, MD, DO, DDS)
- Bachelor's degree.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JIRA, and SharePoint/Teams.
- Experience supporting large federal agencies.
- 2 years of experience in electronic health record solutions and decisional projects.
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced degree.
- Healthcare license or practical hospital-based clinical experience utilizing an electronic health record.
- Experience with executive-level stakeholders and Veterans Health Administration.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills; attention to detail.
- Experience providing data-driven strategic recommendations for large federal agencies.
- Ability to track projects end-to-end with clear and transparent communication of status.
- Proficiency in organizing and communicating information in plain language.
- Strong time management, creativity, and problem-solving skills.
- Understands how to collaborate on a team and take initiative as an individual.
- Ability to get up to speed quickly on complex issues; desire to work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.
- Capable self-starter with a drive to get all types of work done and high attention to detail.
- Ability to gather, analyze, and present data in easy-to-understand formats.
- Ability to align clients’ business objectives with value-based outcomes.
- Ability to distill complex ideas, patterns, and processes into cohesive professional artifacts.
- Project management certification (PMP) or Post-graduate certificate in project management.
- Scaled Agilest certification (SA) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
