Role: Project Manager Location: Albany, NY Hybrid (2 weeks onsite and 2 weeks remote) Duration: Long term (12+ months) Rate: Market
Key Responsibilities: - This position will report into the IES Project Management Office being led by the IES Deputy Director for Project Management
- Daily activities will include, but are not limited to:
- Provide leadership and oversight to other IES project managers and execute on the overall mission and vision of the IES program from a project management perspective
- Defining and managing project scope, schedule and budget, managing project schedule and budget variances, and providing implementation alternatives to mitigate project risk related to scope, schedule and budget
- Proactively identify, assess and mitigate project risks across the project stakeholder community
- Follow the IES established change control process
- Managing project teams following the systems development life cycle including the business requirements definition, technical design, code development, system testing including unit, system, performance, etc., deployment and rollout including training and pilot implementations
- Managing all aspects of the project including risk, issues, communication plan, decisions, actions, and project interdependencies
- Managing resources in a matrix management organization and collaborate with senior management on resource allocations based on project priorities
- Lead project groups within the IES Program and across stakeholder groups
- Facilitate meetings clarifying business and technical requirements and decision making
- Collaborate with project stakeholders including project team members, state agencies, and Social Service Districts ensuring project objectives are understood and roles and responsibilities are well defined
- Oversee and coordinate Systems Integration vendor implementations including scope and methodology adherence, resource management, deliverable review and approvals, and progress reporting
- Reporting to Project Management Deputy Director and responsible for providing regular project status reports to IES Program
- Director, as well as Project Sponsors, Steering Committees, and other governance bodies
- Other duties as assigned
Mandatory Qualifications: - Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Project Manager
- Minimum of one year experience as a Project Manager in a NYS (State, city, local) agency
- Minimum of one project as project manager responsible for managing a project budget greater than $10 million
Desired Qualifications: - Minimum of one project as a project manager which is federally funded requiring project management activities to conform to
- federal requirements prior to project implementation, e.g., testing, deployment and pilot requirements and federal program specific requirements
- Minimum of three years' experience managing projects with vendor deliverable management and contract management
- Minimum of nine years of experience implementing projects utilizing industry standard system development life cycle methodologies
- Minimum of 5 years' experience with MS Project
- Minimum of 5 years prior experience in solicitation, documentation, and validation of business requirements, and participation in
- the translation of those requirements into system design features
- Minimum of 2 years of experience creating and leading standards development, process development and process improvements in project management or business analysis disciplines
- Minimum of 5 years Agile experience
- Minimum of 1 year Jira experience
- Current PMP or PgMP certification through Project Management Institute.