Location: Hybrid (based in the DC/MD/VA metropolitan area)
Salary Range: $40 – $48/hr depending on experience
Employment: Contractor
Position Description:
As a Business Analyst at Innovation Horizons, you will be responsible for spearheading projects that aim to advance healthcare, integrated housing solutions, and related business services, including public health, housing, and social services programs. The role requires an individual with experience in project oversight, analytic skills, strategic stakeholder engagement, and an understanding of regulatory market requirements. You must be familiar with the software development lifecycle, Agile methodology, and documentation, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and user manual development. You must be an exceptional writer, have well-honed interpersonal skills that are aimed at consensus building, requirements development, timeline management, and a strong knowledge of software applications (Microsoft, Adobe, and Atlassian tools), to create and deliver software demonstrations and summary presentations that include educational and training materials.
Key Responsibilities:
- Project Management: Oversee projects from planning to execution, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Coordinate project milestones and timelines. Develop progress reports.
- Project Documentation: With collaboration and oversight from the project lead, develop and maintain user stories and other business and design artifacts, end-user manuals, and other internal and external project documents.
- Stakeholder Management: Develop and nurture relationships with all stakeholders for clear communication and alignment with project objectives.
- Client Engagement: Work directly with clients and healthcare professionals to ensure service satisfaction and address project-related concerns.
- Timely Delivery: Ensure all projects adhere to set timelines and budget constraints.
- Data-Driven Improvements: Utilize data analysis to drive continuous improvement and inform project strategies for optimal healthcare delivery.
- Team Leadership: Lead and inspire project teams, ensuring efficient task delegation and monitoring to meet project targets.
- Quality Assurance: Manage quality control processes to maintain project standards and meet client expectations.
- Budget Oversight: Develop and monitor project budgets, ensuring financial discipline.
- Regulatory Awareness: Maintain current knowledge of healthcare laws and regulations affecting project compliance.
- Communication: Exhibit strong communication abilities to clearly convey project information to all stakeholders, including leadership, team members, and clients.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in administration, business, management, or a related field with 5 years of experience or Master’s degree with 2 or more years of experience in project management, with a proven track record of leading projects that emphasize innovation, new business concepts, uses of technology and data.
- General understanding of policy regulations and compliance standards.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, leadership, and organizational skills.
- Competent in delivering needs assessments, gap analyses, change management and training solutions.
- Proficiency in project and time management, as well as problem-solving capabilities.
Performance Goals:
- Deliver projects on time and within budget.
- Achieve high satisfaction levels among stakeholders and clients.
- Drive measurable improvements in services and solutions through effective project management and innovative practices.
- Uphold strict adherence to regulations and standards, such as privacy rules, ethics policies, in all project activities.
