Project Manager
On-siteBrooklyn, New York, United States
Job Summary
Manage vendor and NYCDOE work-stream efforts while monitoring overall project progress against the baseline plan. Coordinate documentation, issues, and requirements as needed, and proactively identify risks to implementation across all work-streams. Manage the project budget and administration, acting as the liaison to on-site vendor support staff. Resolve conflicts between multiple parties and stakeholders, set deadlines, and mitigate risks to ensure successful engagement in multiple initiatives. Support administrative requirements including meetings and calendars, and assist in recruiting and onboarding new team members. Identify infrastructure gaps and assist in planning future needs.
Required Qualifications
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Project management skills
- Strong detail orientation
- Organizational skills
- Ability to balance the big picture with detailed steps to reach the end goal
- Experience in executing short and long term strategic and operational goals
- Experience with highly complex and multi-party IT programs
- Experience with COTS implementation
- Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently
- Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams
- Experience mobilizing disparate groups of people toward a common and ambitious goal
- Experience managing horizontally
- Experience translating insights into action
- Experience with Project Management with over multi-million dollar budgets
- Experience interacting with High-Level Executives and Senior Management
- Experience working with stakeholders to define and develop business processes and procedures
- Experience defining system requirements
- Experience resolving conflicts
- Experience negotiating a resolution between multiple parties and stakeholders
- Experience managing multiple concurrent Vendors and contracts
- Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience with various technologies
- Experience with test documentation
- Experience with test procedures
- Project leader capacity
- Major contributor on a complex project
- A master's degree from an accredited college
- 24 semester credits in computer science or a related computer field
Desired Qualifications
- Senior managers/executives with extensive project management background
- Professional services/consulting background
- Experience managing multi-million dollar budgets
- Experience managing multi-party programs
- Experience in managing vendor and DOE stakeholder relationships at senior levels
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