Operation Planning Leadership Skills Decision Making Manager

Operation Planning Leadership Skills Decision Making Manager

(Jobs in Madison, WI

Requirement id 159387

Job title Manager

Job location in Madison, WI

Skills required Testing Background, Operation, Planning, Leadership Skills Decision Making

Open Date 22-Oct-2026

Close Date

Job type Contract

Duration 7 Months

Compensation DOE

Status requirement ---

Job interview type ---

Email Recruiter:coolsoft

Job Description Manager: Testing Background, Operation, Planning, Leadership Skills Decision Making

Start date: 11/30/2026

End Date : 06/30/2027

Submission deadline: 10/28/2026 4:00:00 PM

Client Info: DHS

Note:

*Interview Process: Two Round Virtual Interview Process via Microsoft Teams. Use of AI Assistance is prohibited. A real time photo is required to be uploaded for interviews.

*Onsite or Remote? This position will be 100% remote. Candidates should be prepared to report onsite for Day 1. WI Resident candidates only. In state travel 10%-20%.

Description:

Under the general direction of the Project Delivery Unit Supervisor within the Office of Health Informatics, this position provides senior-level project, program, product, and evaluation expertise for complex, cross-functional initiatives affecting the Division of Public Health. The position supports the planning, implementation, modernization, and continuous improvement of business processes, information systems, data capabilities, and digital services.

The position leads initiatives throughout the full delivery life cycle, including discovery, selection, initiation, planning, execution, product development, testing, deployment, adoption, stabilization, transition to operations, evaluation, and closure. Responsibilities include establishing appropriate governance structures; defining scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and success measures; and ensuring that work is completed in accordance with applicable quality, privacy, security, confidentiality, accessibility, regulatory, and operational requirements.

This position coordinates business, program, product, technical, data, privacy, security, vendor, and executive stakeholders. The incumbent facilitates collaboration across bureaus, offices, programs, departmental information technology teams, contractors, and external partners to identify business needs, resolve complex issues, manage competing priorities, and support timely and informed decision-making. Superior interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex information clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences are essential.

The incumbent provides leadership in developing and implementing division wide strategies, plans, policies, standards, principles, and procedures related to project delivery, product management, request management, project classification, prioritization, and organizational improvement. This includes collaborating with management and subject-matter experts to improve the collection, governance, protection, integration, accessibility, quality, reporting, evaluation, and effective use of public health data.

The position develops and maintains project plans, program plans, product roadmaps, implementation strategies, annual action plans, schedules, resource plans, risk and issue registers, decision logs, dependency maps, status reports, performance measures, and other delivery documentation. The incumbent identifies and manages risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and critical pathways across initiatives with shared or overlapping functions.

The position applies knowledge of systems, data, business processes, and program operations to develop and implement solutions that improve efficiency, streamline data collection and reporting, strengthen decision-making, enhance service delivery, and improve program outcomes. The incumbent consults with managers and leadership on complex operational, technical, data-related, and delivery matters and translates organizational priorities into actionable plans.

Responsibilities also include leading organizational readiness and implementation activities, such as business-process analysis, requirements management, user acceptance testing, data migration, training, communications, change management, deployment planning, production readiness, post-implementation support, be

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