Position: Project Manager
Location: Cranston, RI (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time Contract
Pay: $55-57 per hour
Description: In this role you will be helping to support the implementation of a portfolio of 13 healthcare initiatives. This role is responsible for coordinating project activities, maintaining project plans and timelines, tracking milestones and deliverables, managing risks, and ensuring compliance with program requirements. Working closely with leadership, state agencies, contractors, and program partners, the Project Manager will help drive day-to-day execution across multiple initiatives while supporting collaboration, accountability, and successful program outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Support implementation of activities across all 13 RHTP initiatives and related cross-cutting program activities.
- Work closely with the two Interdepartmental Project Managers and initiative leads to develop, maintain, and update project work plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and implementation trackers.
- Coordinate day-to-day implementation activities across EOHHS, state agencies, subrecipients, contractors, and other RHTP partners.
- Support coordination across initiatives where activities, partners, timelines, or deliverables are interdependent.
- Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, barriers, delays, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Track action items and follow up with initiative leads and partners to support timely completion of milestones and deliverables.
- Coordinate and support project meetings, including developing agendas, documenting decisions and action items, and following up on outstanding items.
- Help ensure that activities across the RHTP portfolio remain aligned with approved initiative plans, budgets, milestones, and federal program requirements.
- Assist initiative leads and program leadership with monitoring project budgets, procurement activities, contracts, and other implementation requirements, as appropriate.
- Support the collection, organization, and documentation of information needed for RHTP reporting, including progress toward milestones, deliverables, expenditures, and performance measures.
- Assist with preparation of RHTP reports, presentations, briefing materials, dashboards, project updates, and other materials for internal and external audiences.
- Help identify and elevate issues that require leadership attention and support timely resolution of implementation barriers.
- Support technical assistance, procurement, contracting, community engagement, and other cross-cutting activities as assigned.
- Maintain organized project documentation and ensure that key decisions, deliverables, and implementation activities are appropriately documented.
- Support the continued development and improvement of RHTP project management processes, tools, trackers, and workflows.
- Perform other project management and implementation duties necessary to support successful delivery of the RHTP’s 13-initiative portfolio.
Requirements:
- Experience managing or coordinating complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, organizations, or workstreams.
- Experience supporting implementation of public sector, healthcare, public health, behavioral health, human services, or community-based programs is preferred.
- Experience working across multiple projects or initiatives with competing timelines and priorities.
- Strong organizational, project management, communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to identify issues proactively, follow through on action items, and communicate risks and barriers clearly.
- Ability to work independently while coordinating effectively across multiple teams and organizations.
- Experience with project management software, Microsoft Office, spreadsheets, and other project tracking tools.
- Experience working in a government, healthcare, or other highly regulated environment is desirable.
- Familiarity with federal grants management, procurement, contracting, or program reporting is desirable.
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