Immediate opening for a Sr Level Master Scheduler to support our client, a major Healthcare Insurance organization! The individual will serve as the Master Scheduler responsible for developing, maintaining, and analyzing a comprehensive Microsoft Project schedule for a complex, high-visibility, initiative. The scheduler ensures alignment across business, architecture, policy, stakeholder engagement, strategy, and governance functions required for successful implementation and launch. The scheduler creates and provides standard and custom schedule views and reporting for different stakeholder groups (business, technical, external, executive) to support decision-making, risk management, status communication, and ultimate delivery of project outcomes.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- 40% Schedule Development and Maintenance - Build and maintain the master scheduler in Microsoft Project. Incorporate inputs from multiple workstreams into a single integrated schedule. Establish and maintain dependencies, milestones, critical paths, baselines, and task status. Facilitate discussions required to progressively elaborate schedule details.
- 25% Schedule Analysis and Reporting - Track progress against baseline schedule and highlight variances. Perform "what-if" analysis to evaluate impacts of changes or risks
- 20% Stakeholder Engagement and Communication - Facilitate schedule reviews with project manager, business/technical leads, and leadership. Collaborate across teams to gather updates and validate assumptions. Create standard and custom reports to meet stakeholder communication needs.
- 15% Governance and risk support - Ensure schedule activities align with program governance requirements. Maintain version control and document changes. Support schedule risk management and mitigation planning.

This position is a contract position with the possibility of conversion to FTE status with our client. This position is hybrid and will have to report into our client-s office (MD, VA or DC) several times per month as the projects require.

Required Skills

- Education Level: Bachelor's Degree. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
- Experience: 7+ years experience as a Master Project Scheduling Professional
- Must have SME level knowledge of Microsoft Project
-Must have experience within Agile methodology frameworks (Waterfall in addition would be a big plus)
-Background in creating schedules from scratch
-Able to support multiple complex projects running at the same time
-Ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally
-Big plus: Prior experience within a Healthcare Payor organization