Estimated Length: 24 months Full-Time 8 hour days (regular business hours are 8:00am-5:00pm but can be negotiated)

Mandatory Requirements

Skill Level: Expert – 84+ Months

Desired Requirements

• 84 months of experience in managing and leading multiple large, complex IT projects, functioning as the project manager with full responsibility for their successful completion. Large, complex IT projects are defined primarily as those with the following characteristics: budget over $500,000, duration over 12 months, multiple funding sources including Federal and grant funding, management of third party vendors, management of external stakeholders, multi-level project team organization, deployment to geographically diverse end users.     
• 84 months of experience in engaging in project communication, including leading regularly scheduled project team meetings, preparing meeting summaries, facilitating meetings to resolve project issues, preparing clear and concise status reports, presenting project status briefings to IT leadership, and presenting project status briefings to project steering committees and/or agency executive management.
• 84 months of experience in developing and maintaining schedules in Microsoft Project.  
• 48 months of experience in managing projects using a Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) based project management methodology, containing well defined and documented processes, templates, and guidelines for all project phases, the adherence to which is required and managed by a formal Project Management Office.
• 48 months of experience in managing COTS software implementation projects and/or in-house application development (SDLC) projects.
• 48 months of experience in facilitating elicitation of business requirements and documenting business requirements.
• 24 months of experience in managing projects for New York State Agencies.
• 12 months of experience in managing IT infrastructure projects.
• 12 months of experience in managing projects involving multiple entities not belonging to the same organization, e.g., State Agencies, Federal Agencies, and Corporations.
• Bachelor’s level or higher degree.
• Current Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or national certification in Project Management.  

Responsibilities

• Presentations and interaction with high level NYS executive leaders related to Transportation projects.
• Communicating project status to team members as well as management and executives both inside and outside the Agency
• Defining and managing project scope, schedule and budget
• Identifying project risks and dependencies and providing implementation alternatives to mitigate project risk related to scope, schedule and budget
• Managing and mentoring project teams in the development of business cases, project plans, status reports and project management documents as requested by management. 
• Working with senior management on resource allocations, project responsibilities and tasking, as well as mentoring and training resources as necessary
• Functioning as a facilitator to clarify business and technical requirements which cross project team boundaries within a matrix organization
• Performing all tasks with strong written and verbal communication skills

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