Program Manager with nursing background

My San Francisco based client is hiring for a Program Manager with a nursing or case management background. The ideal candidate will bring 5 years program and project management experience along with RN or Case Management experience. This is a 6 month contract to hire position.


Please contact Aileen if you are qualified and interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.


DESCRIPTION:

• The Program Manager will play a central role in managing operations and projects related to vendored clinical programs. As the lead for case management programs, the PM will be responsible for execution and delivery of a suite of high touch member-facing case management programs.
• Responsibilities include relationship management, program operations and oversight, as well as reporting and continuous quality improvement. This position provides the unique opportunity to be involved with departments across the organization and to be responsible for vital aspects of vendor relationships and contract management.
• The PM will be a key manager in the Center for Health & Wellness.

 RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Independently manage and oversee ongoing operations between vendors and the company
• Plan and direct project initiatives from initiation through delivery and monitor for continuous improvement
• Review externally produced reporting critically and for consistency
• Produce relevant reports on process metrics, utilization metrics and cost savings estimates for internal and external customers
• Review member communications
• Manage operational budgets
• Design and document process workflows
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• Escalate issues as needed
• Manage project scope and identify appropriate scope changes and direction
• Coordinate with cross-departmental team members; provide guidance and leadership
• Provide input into designing strategies for alignment with business unit goals and objectives as part of a broader management team

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Full Time Healthcare Business Analyst

My client is currently hiring for a Mid-Level Business Analyst. This is a full time/direct hire position based out of San Francisco. The ideal candidate will bring a strong healthcare background. IDX experince would be helpful, but is not required.

Please contact Aileen if you are qualified and interested: ashroyer@kforce.com 415-678-2321.

Job Description: 

Qualified candidates will be involved in planning, implementation, enhancement, testing, maintenance and support of application software and related information systems. Duties will be in line with standard Business Analysis job duties in addition to participation in support for new customers' go live including system conversion support, on-site client support during go live periods and scheduling of outputs. Previous healthcare experience working with managed healthcare software applications is preferred as well as experience in operational / technical support. IDX experience would be a plus.

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Health Reform Program Manager

My client is currently hiring for an experienced Program Manager to oversee various healthcare compliance projects and 2 project managers. This individual will be part of a team of Program Managers responsibile for their Health Reform portfolio. The Program Manager will be responsible for PM activities as well as driving activities through two other PM's on the effort. This is a 1 year contract in downtown San Francisco. Along with hourly pay, Kforce provides many benefits including: medical, dental, 401K, vision, flexible spending accounts and paid sick time.

If you are qualified and interested, please contact Aileen at ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.

Responsiblities:

• Manages the design, development and/or implementation of new or enhanced systems projects or programs.
• Responsible for assembling project team, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed and developing schedule to ensure timely completion of project and meeting interim deadlines of project.
• Communicates with internal and external parties on project status.
• Prepares reports regarding status, budget, risks, etc. for management review.
• Scope and complexity of projects may vary.
• May have managerial responsibility for staff.
• Responsible for complex projects/clients/products/programs.
• As part of a broader management team has influence on business unit, project or function strategies and objectives.
• May provide management direction to team members during project life cycle.

Required Skills:  

• Ability to Direct the activities of two other PM's managing a highly complex effort with 27 different work streams.
• MS Project
• HP PPM experience desired
• Agile, Waterfall methodologies
• Healthcare experience is highly desirable
• Strong communication skills – written and verbal
• Must have experience working on projects that are Application releated
• Individual should be able to conduct meetings at a high level.

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ICD-10 Business Analyst

Our client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to provide analytical support through analysis and interpretation of data to help enable the organization to become ICD-10 compliant. The Senior Business Analyst must have the ability to review internal business processes, identify impacts, and develop future state processes as needed. Research industry trends and other factors to assist in developing solution options and detailed action plans. This is a 6 month+ contract in downtown San Francisco. This is a 32 hour per week position.

Please contact Aileen if you are qualified and interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.


Responsibilities:

•  Provides complex analytical support through the analysis and interpretation of data in support of cross-functional business operations.
• Develops, prepares, and analyzes complex reports for management review.
• Defines complex business requirements and provides analysis toward operational efficiency. Analyzes actual results against plan and forecast and recommends interventions where appropriate.
• Works cross-functionally in analyzing, designing and developing business solutions. Provides analytical support for multiple, complex, projects simultaneously, establishes work plans and timelines; coordinates with internal and external sources.
• Make presentations to various levels of management.
• Works under limited supervision, using established procedures. Advanced knowledge of automated systems in a production or operations environment.
• Ability to identify, analyze and resolve complex cross-functional problems related to business operations statistical analysis methodology.

 Requirements:

• Advanced knowledge of and ability to perform analyses such as, GAP analysis, process mapping, root-cause analysis, risk analysis and requirements gathering. Advanced knowledge of PCs and related software applications.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills. Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Highly developed math, analytical and problem-solving skills and use of analytical tools (e.g. MiniTab, Excel graphs). D
• emonstrated project management skills.
• B.A/B.S. degree and five years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Great if this person has healthcare experience but not required.

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CMS Business Analyst

I have a client in the Northern East Bay who is hiring for a Senior Business Analyst. This is a full time/direct hire position. The ideal candidate will bring 7-10 years experience with a strong focus on content management systems. Please contact me if you are interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.

Responsible for realigning the development roadmap for the Content Management System, as part of the overall eBusiness platform, including extensions required to support the international rollout of the system (addition of translation capabilities which may include third-party add-ons), improving usability for core users, and extending use deeper into the organization.

Serves as the primary point person for all CMS-related issues and enhancements requested by clients across the enterprise.
Meets regularly with business clients and CMS users to understand their needs and ensure CMS development activities are aligned with the business and properly prioritized.
Influences business decision makers with recommendations based on detailed analysis from the business point of view while consulting regularly with the Corporate IT CMS team.
Works closely with other Business Analysts to prioritize CMS enhancements within the larger Web Site Support activities.
Communicates CMS enhancements to the business clients, either in conjunction with or supplemental to Web Site Code Release business communications.
Oversees or participates in User Acceptance Testing of CMS enhancements.
May also play a lead role in the area of Site Search, User Experience optimization, and SEO optimization as part of the Global eBusiness business team.
May supervise the activities of other team members on projects.

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Informatica Administrator

We are currenlty hiring for Informatica Administrator to work in downtown San Francisco. This is a 10 month contract to hire position. Contact Aileen if you are interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.

Job Description:
Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining Informatica software in support of business processing requirements. Determines systems needs, recommends technologies to meet overall corporate and business unit requirements. Performs software installations and upgrades to Informatica software packages. Monitors performance and disk space utilization.. Is able to function independently with minimal oversight and direction. May instruct and guide lower level technical professionals. Assignments are broad in nature and complex in scope. Typically designs and develops approaches that are implemented by others. . Ability encompasses in-depth knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of particular field of specialization. . Generally requires 5 to 8 years of professional experience directly related to all aspects of the primary product, program or technology. Fully competent professional. .


Requirements:


• Experience in setting up & configuring enterprise Informatica Implementation with Powercenter 8.X (8.6 and further preferable) on Solaris and Oracle 10g and greater.
• Experience in Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Informatica Data Explorer (IDE)
• Experience in monitoring the environments and suggesting improvements for stability & performance tuning.
• Experience with Enterprise HA & Grid (v8x).
• Experience in working with Informatica Corp for product issues, licensing and understanding product roadmaps
• Experience in maintaining security through effective management of users/groups and OS Profiles
• Experience with PowerCenter
• 5-7 yrs of experience Informatica experience
• Experience in Implementation of patches and upgrades
• Experience in the implementation of maintenance activities like Powerdowns / Reboots etc..
• Understand the need for BCP, have knowledge of DR requirements and perform DR tests Provide technical expertise and leadership to resolve complex Informatica infrastructure issues.
• Experience in handling Incident and Change Management requests through service desk
• Coordinate with internal clients / storage /Unix / DBA / NOC teams to resolve issues
• Coordinate and offshore support and development teams
• Ability to think through and resolve complex Infrastructure issues
• Ability to lead and drive infrastructure projects to a successful closure
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts, ETL development and scripting will be an added advantage.
• Good team player with equal ability to work independently during weekends, off hours and provide on-call support
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of ITIL processes
• Willing to learn new technologies and concepts

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Visual Online Designer - 11 month Contract to Hire

I am currenlty hiring for a Visual Online Designer to work in downtown San Francisco. This is an 11 month contract to hire position. Please contact me if you are qualified and interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.

Requirements:


• Bachelors Degree or equivalent with emphasis in related field (such as Motion , Graphics or Design)
• Strong knowledge of and personal connection to the high-tech industry
• Working knowledge and understanding of content management systems, web technologies, including HTML, Flash, etc…
• In-depth knowledge of user-centered design documentation systems such as wireframes comps and design specifications
• Excellent knowledge of graphics and user-centered design tools, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash.
• Must have top-notch samples and portfolio/URL demonstrating high-level of design skills.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with eBusiness, Marketing, and BU partners to conceptualize and execute designs that will advance user adoption rates for self-service features, retain members, increase revenue from online applications, and precisely communicate product features and benefits
• Design and produce web page templates including landing pages,email campaigns, banner ads, e-newletters and Flash banners/headers.
• Take a holistic approach to visual design across the site – develop, own, and evangelize the company's online brand
• Evangelize User Centered Design to create visuals that provide best in class user experiences, while clearly defining new product features and reinforcing the company's brand
• Gather project requirements and explore strategic design solutions that clearly fit business goals and user goals, while promoting the Blue Shield brand
• Rapidly develop visual concepts and “sell” them to clients (Product Managers and BU partners)
• Refresh/update existing designs, working within existing templates and conventions but also exploring new solutions
• Develop detailed design specifications, then work closely with the product, engineering and QA teams to support UI implementation efforts
• Participate in formal and informal design critiques, give effective feedback to peers

Transformation/Change Management Analyst

I am currenlty hiring for an experience Transformation / Change Management Analyst. This is a 6 month contract based out of Oakland. If you are qualified and interested, contact Aileen at ashroyer@kforce.com or 415.678.2321.

Responsibilities:

• Candidate must possess experience providing Decision Support in a medium to large corporate environment.
• An example would be performing economic and financial valuation on employee wages and benefits for specific scenarios and presenting the outcomes.
• Individual must be able to work under pressure, handle multiple projects, be self motivated and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong oral and written communication skills are also required. Past participation in union / company collaboration environments are a plus.
• Candidate must be able to build, test, document, and maintain Access & Spreadsheet applications and reports.
• Individual must be able to communicate and present financial outcomes and logic to a wide audience.

Requirements:

• 7-10 years experience in an analysis role including experience in Decision Support, database management, information systems and business
• Advanced skills in Access and Excel (pivot tables, macros and VBA) a must.
• Intermediate skills with Power Point required. Familiarity with Cognos Query Studio or similar business intelligence tools is required.
• Exeperience with SAS is a plus
• Bachelor Degree
• Health Industry experience is a plus but not required

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IT Project Manager

I am currenlty hiring for a IT Project Manager to work in downtown San Francisco. This is a 3 month contract position. This position requires some travel to the Sacramento Area.  Please contact Aileen if you are avialble and interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415.678.2321.

Requesting a candidate with custom developed solutions project management experience. This is for a clinical application so experience with Healthcare/Clinical Systems a plus. Require a candidate with experience in the final implementation phases of the SDLC - project is entering User Acceptance Test and will require tight scope and requirements management. PM will be required to create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning. Candidate will need to efficiently identify and solve project related issues and document and maintain technical project documentation. Strong organizational, presentation and customer relationship management skills are a must. Facilities Compliance review for a software application that reviews claims and clinical accuracy. PM will also conduct analysis and will own project.

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IT Architect in San Francisco

I am currenlty hiring for an experienced IT Architect to work in downtown San Francisco. This is a 3 month  contract to hire position. Please contact me if you are qualified and interested at ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.

Key Responsibilities:

• Influence Business and IT leaders across the entire Organization by providing thought leadership
• Adopt a leadership position within the company, taking responsibility for managing internal customer relationships
• Influence, guide and mentor Architects across the entire Organization.
• Actively participate in the development of Applications Architecture as a key foundation of IT within the organization.
• Partners with Business and IT departments to develop/maintain the Business and IT strategy and roadmaps
• Actively create and manage the Technology strategy within the organization, exploring, accessing and piloting new technologies and frameworks so that, where applicable, processes and deliveries to meet business objectives are optimized
• Participate in the development of additional engagements and broaden IT Applications Architecture engagements across the enterprise.
• Actively support Enterprise Architecture discipline as a key discipline within the organization.
• Participate in the development and execution of IT governance process.
• Drive the technical strategy and lead team(s) in meeting the strategic objectives.
• Coaches, mentors, and delegates to Technical leads to facilitate their development. Foster high performing technical teams.
• Identify and recruit technical leaders into the organization
• Designs complex systems at the component level, makes strategic technology choices, and directly supervises the quality of designs and implementation inside and between components.
• Influence development managers and IT Operations and Delivery Directors to insure appropriate levels of quality on owned architecture(s).
• Collaborates effectively with peer architects and chief architects to solve complex problems spanning their respective areas and resolves technological disagreement with informed, rational debate.
• Arbitrates disagreements among projects teams, peers and IT directors; make or facilitate decisions where needed without damaging relationships.
• Translate the draft design into a Technical design document gaining consensus on the components of the solution from SME’s, Project Manager and peer Architects.
• Develop Architecture documents / artifacts from templates working with extended IT and Business teams.
• Identify architectural risks and plans to mitigations risks, adherence to standards and best practices.
• Experience estimating capital, schedule and human resource costs of proposed objectives. Compares, contrasts, and prioritizes among alternative approaches to meet those objectives while assessing risk both quantitatively and qualitatively.
• Perform application assessments partnering with vendors, project team members and key subject matter experts.
• Develop solution architectures, technical architectures and system landscapes partnering with vendors, project team members and key subject matter experts
• Develop joint recommendations on key architecture/technical decisions by partnering with vendors, project team members and key subject matter experts.
• Focuses on how to leverage technologies to improve applications selection and utilization efficiencies.
• Partners with other IT organizations to develop/maintain the Business and IT strategy and roadmap.
• Provides expertise in technical design, development and architecture, design patterns, standards and best practices.
• Assists in specific application development projects.
• Researches and introduces best practices frameworks/capability models tailored for the environment that will control costs, provide higher quality and/or increase predictability of service delivery.
• Works with projects across the enterprise to identify technical architecture development and deployment problems and improvement opportunities.
• Crafts solutions that effectively resolve problems or provide improvement.
• IT subject matter expert for application technologies including partnering on application/database high availability solutions.
• Conducts regular, ongoing in Technology areas to keep abreast and be informed of important changes within the Technology spectrum. Holds regular meetings on tools and technologies, involving appropriate IT members to disseminate and share knowledge, issues and concerns, propose solutions, and suggest standards and frameworks that will enhance development efforts.
• Works to find solutions to issues identified during cross-project meetings.
• Develops and disseminates standards and best-practices documentation which reflect techniques that work best within the environment and are based on industry sources and IT experiences Develop and review business cases targeting IT executives.
• Develop and review research findings (PowerPoint), architectural diagrams (Visio) and supporting details in (Excel)
• Develop and review technical statements of work. Develop and review key presentations targeting all levels of staff (e.g. IT executives, business/technology managers, developers, system administrators, etc).
• Communicates plans, status and issues on all engagements to management on a regular basis.
• Influences and communicates effectively with non-technical audiences including senior product and business management.
• Comfortably moves between highly varying levels of abstraction from business strategy to product strategy to high level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation.
• Clearly documents and communicates objectives, requirements, and designs at these different levels of abstraction to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• May lead projects and coordinate activities of other team members


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Infrastructure Architect

This just in! Infrastructure Architect in Pleasant. This is a 12 month contract position. Applicants are required to work on Kforce's W2. Please contact Aileen if you are qualified and interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.

Job Description and Requirements:

Senior level infrastructure architect and design specialist with primary expertise in x86/Intel systems. Responsible for IT Infrastructure Design for Mega Projects - these are Complex in nature like DR and Scalability. Develops infrastructure design/architecture. Assesses system requirements and specifications and translates them into a physical architecture and design. Must be able to understand, capture, and document non-functional system requirements, and logical solution design upon which the physical infrastructure design will be built.



Background should include extensive hands-on (Sr. Systems Engineer) and large scale project engagement to design IT infrastructure based on requirements. This needs to include Windows Server Operating system, Microsoft Cluster Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Redhat/SUSE Linux, and VMWARE expertise.

Project Manager - Healthcare Mandates

We are currently hiring for a Project Manager to work on a 6 month contract in downtown San Francisco. This role is focused on healthcare mandates. Experience within the healthcare industry or with HP-PPM is highly desired. Please contact Aileen if you are qualified and interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.

Job Description:

Responsibilities include providing upfront analysis of initiatives against portfolio funding criteria; driving and supporting project initiation activities including securing of seed funding, setup of the project in portfolio management tools and other supporting systems. Other project initiation activities may include identifying project stakeholders, identifying and assembling project resources, and drafting project initiation documents (e.g. project charters, kick-off presentations, project proposals). The urgency of some mandated initiatives may require this position to assume project management responsibilities of small projects from start to finish. Other activities include supporting the Portfolio Manager in governance activities including creation of dashboard reports, portfolio financial tracking spreadsheet, quarterly re-forecasts, annually planning, leading status meetings and supporting individual project managers with PMLC deliverables including business case development and project financials. Responsibilities: Able to function independently and produce results that meet standards of quality, timeliness and acceptability. Minimal supervision and general direction. Performs work that is varied and moderately complex. Able to document and develop presentations ideas and approaches developed by others. Must have very strong written and spoken communication skills and attention for detail. Some project management experience is preferred with a strong understanding of the PMLC and working knowledge of one or SDLC processes.


Requirements:

• Experience with MS Excel-candidate should be able create formula's and produce financial tracking spreadsheets, make spread sheet presentable to upper management for review.
• Experience with PowerPoint-create power point presentations.
• Project Methodology-familiar with SDLC or PMLC phases and deliverables in each phase.
• This person will be splitting time between Managing mandates portfolio projects, Assisting other Sr. PM with their projects, and owning a small project that will consist of data requirement gathering, meeting with business units and stakeholders, holding team meetings.

Preferred Qualifications:

• HP-PPM
• Healthcare industry experience including work with healthcare mandates

IT Manager - Network and Batch Operations

Kforce Professional Staffing is currenlty hiring for an IT Manager with expertise in NOC and Batch Operations. This is a 6 month contract to hire in the Sacramento Area. Please contact Aileen at ashroyer@Kforce.com if you are qualified and interested.


The Manager of  NOC and Batch Operations is primarily responsible for overseeing and providing leadership and guidance to the team of NOC and Batch Operator teams (10-13 individuals). This individual will provide administrative direction and support for daily operational activities of the teams. This person will leverage their operational knowledge of the company's IT best practices and process to create, evaluate, enhance and refine internal procedures, documentations and standards. As needed, the Manager may assist other managers with procedural challenges and be called upon to address escalated issues.

 

Job responsibilities:

• Day to day management of the 24x7 NOC and Batch Operator teams; As a IT Manager. Have had 10-13 direct reports.
• Responsible for scheduling of resources to provide excellent operational support and within budget.
•  Responsible for day to day operations of the production batch schedule and escalation.
•  Responsible for batch orchestration, day to day batch schedule changes, and execution & monitoring batch jobs in production to meet business needs.
•  Responsible for maintaining and enhancing Network Operations Center (Windows, Unix and/or Mainframes)
•  Identify gaps in knowledge and organize appropriate transfers of knowledge
•  Previous experience development of processes and procedures.
•  Research and resolve procedural issues and recommend appropriate interventions/modifications as needed.
•  Establishes team/individual goals and action plans to support corporate objectives.
•  Monitors and reports on team’s metrics and team/individual goals.
•  Communicates and interprets changes in guidelines, policies, procedures and other related matters.
•  Provides developmental and training opportunities for team members; oversees research activities and evaluates findings; Monitors on-going performance; Communicates expectations and results on a regular basis.
•  Reviews annual operating budget and monitors costs to ensure compliance with budgetary guidelines.
•  Serves as a resource and provides information as requested to internal and external sources on related operations. Coordinates with other internal departments to resolve problems or issues.
•  Makes recommendations and proposals for leadership review.
•  Prepares and submits reports and recommendations for management review.
•  Tivoli monitoring tool is a plus.