Data Team Project Manager (Term)

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Data Team Project Manager (Term)  

RAND is seeking a highly motivated and experienced technical project manager, to provide supporting leadership to the Data Team on a project at RAND. The Data Team is composed of 15 programmers and data scientists, who are distributed across the US, primarily in remote positions. The Data Team works in support of the overall project team, which includes 100 interdisciplinary team members. The incumbent will work on project in RAND’s Disaster Management & Resilience Program, that supports the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through unprecedented challenges as they respond to COVID-19.  

This is a term position with an end date of April 2nd, 2025, with the possibility of renewal through April 2nd, 2026. 

Qualifications 

Applicants should have excellent project management skills, ideally in a research setting and demonstrated in internship/work experience, and must be highly motivated, organized, flexible, and demonstrate a strong commitment to RAND's core values of quality and objectivity. Applicants should also have:  

• Fluency with Microsoft Office suite, including Microsoft Excel;  

• Experience with project management software, such as Notion. 

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing. 

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively as a remote member of multi-disciplinary teams. 

• Content knowledge in healthcare, public health, health services costs, medical billing/insurance, accounting, and/or disaster management is desirable but not required. 

• Expertise related to medical cost, healthcare billing operations, and medical insurance practices is desirable but not required. 

• Experience with government grant programs, particularly FEMA’s Public Assistance program is desirable but not required. 

• High-level understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies. 

• Experience and knowledge of programming languages, such as Python, R, STATA. 

• Understand software development methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall). 

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. 

Duties 

• Develop understanding of project scope and requirements and convert requirements into technical directives. 

• Establish project management best practices within the Data Team. 

• Implement project management practices in collaboration with technical staff to improve and guide tasks. 

• Manage staff work assignments, and adjust staff work assignments when challenges arise or priorities shift. 

• Develop and implement effective metrics to track task progress and outcomes. 

• Organize and run internal project meetings. Ensure minutes are taken for meetings. 

• Assist the project leader identify and monitor project risks and develop mitigation strategies. 

• Provide clarification and understanding of technical requirements to staff. 

• Communicate project progress to leadership staff. 

Education  

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