Job/Position DescriptionProject Manager IIIAs a member of the Decision Support Services (DSS) within Health and Human Services (HHSC) Behavioral Health Services (BHS) division, performs advanced oversight, consultative services, and technical assistance functions with latitude for initiative and exercising independent judgment. Performs advanced work related to the development of applications and data management systems under direction of the functional Director, needing minimal supervision. Ensures that applications and data management systems are developed and maintained consistent with the HHSC-BHS mission, applicable laws, rules, and policies, especially those related to security, executive decisions, and user needs. Deliver oversight of programs requirement gathering, development delivery of superior user acceptance testing (UAT), and implementation that meets clientsand#146; and programmatic needs. This position is Telework.Essential Job FunctionsFunctions as a liaison to IT for HHSC BHS ensuring appropriate exchange of information, monitoring, and oversight of the development and maintenance of software applications in support of program areas. Utilizes Program and IT project management experience and expertise to oversee projects, ensuring quality outcomes for Program. Outcomes include desired scope, cost, schedule, and quality of the solution as well as project delivery. Customer satisfaction is a key outcome. Ensures effective communication between groups about the agency, IT, program and end users (e.g. the Providers) needs/preferences and various approaches to the development of new functionality, balancing options for and impact of modifications to applications, as well as recommendations for streamlining and improvement. Participate in and provide oversight of the HHSC BHS IT projects and activities to plan, develop, maintain, and update applications. Activities include, but are not limited to, participation in all phases of IT project planning; requirements gathering workgroups, oversight of application design decisions to ensure the consistency and quality of the application, UAT, deployment planning, and final deployment approvals with IT project managers, business analysts, developers, subject matter experts, and internal and external stakeholders. EFJ1. 40% Communicates information, orally and in writing, alone or with others, related to job responsibilities, HHSC, and DSS that are professional, logical, and concise. Provides oversight and approval of documentation produced by IT to include use cases, agile requirements documents, communications with users, and tickets. Orally present information, formally and informally, to individuals and groups; is well organized, factual, and data based. For assignments, creates or oversees the creation of issue and risk registers and regularly evaluates the content of risk registers. Directly documents issues and risks or ensures appropriate documentation. Directly devises mitigation action items and correction actions suitable for the project and agency ensuring their delivery by owners. Assesses for ancillary risks. Creates and follows escalation procedures and#150; timely and#150; to avoid adverse impacts to the agency or project or project outcomes EFJ2. 25% As a member of DSS, ensures stakeholder engagement through conducting stakeholder analysis and creating stakeholder registers. Evaluates potential impacts to projects based on stakeholder positioning. Determines, through analysis, needed organizational change management, includi https://jobshrportal.hhsc.state.tx.us/ENG/CareerPortal/job_profile.cfm?szOrderID=610839 Copy the URL in the preceding sentence to an Internet Explorer browser to apply to the job directly through the Texas Health and Human Services Career Portal.