Project Manager

In person interview needed. Onsite from day 1

Location : Albany, NY

Duration : 12+ months

Responsibilities

• Work under the direction of the Lead PM for the following activities :
• Create & maintain project schedule, stakeholder register and roles & responsibilities matrix
• Create & maintain project management plans and peripheral plans which includes but is not limited scope management plan, communication plan and change management plan.
• Create and maintain risk log, issue log, action item log and decision log
• Schedule and facilitate status meetings
• Draft meeting notes and disperse to project team members
• Work with the business unit, a third-party vendor and Information Technology Services (ITS) to facilitate design sessions and ensure that design requirements are documented and approved by the business unit.
• Work with ITS to facilitate ITS related deliverables such as environment setup, single-sign, APIs, user authentication
• Work with business unit, a third-party vendor and ITS to coordinate system walk-throughs and document feedback from the sessions
• Create and manage the requirements traceability matrix
• Work with business unit to facilitate and prepare test scenarios & test cases
• Facilitate the testing and defect resolution sessions
• Communicate issues to the business unit, a third-party vendor, and ITS and project leadership to facilitate remediation
• Work with a third-party vendor and / or ITS to deploy the system to production.

Skills Needed

60 Months of experience performing project management activities such as : creating and maintaining a project schedule, creating and maintaining stakeholder registers and roles & responsibilities matrix;

developing project management plans and peripheral plans (communication, scope management, change management) and tracking risks, issues, decisions and action items.

60 Months of experience performing project management activities such as : leading and facilitating status meetings, drafting meeting notes;

disseminating meeting notes out to project team members and performing follow-up to ensure that the action items have been completed.

• 60 Months of experience working with technical staff from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to facilitate environment setup, single-sign on setup, APIs, user authentication and other technical aspects of the project.
• 60 Months of experience working with the business unit, a third-party vendor and technical staff from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to facilitate design sessions and ensure that system requirements are documented and approved by the business unit.
• 60 Months of experience managing a software implementation vendor to ensure that project deliverables are completed and the project is moving forward as scheduled.
• 36 Months of experience using project management software such as Smartsheet, MS Visio and MS Project.
• 36 Months of experience working with the business unit, a third-party vendor and technical staff from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to coordinate system walk-throughs and document feedback from the sessions.

This includes working with a third-party vendor and technical staff from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to ensure that specified requirements have been built, tested and accepted.

36 Months of experience facilitating the testing phase by creating and managing the requirements traceability matrix; scheduling and facilitating testing status meetings;

assisting with the preparation of test scenarios & test cases; scheduling and facilitating defect resolution sessions.

• Bachelor's Degree
• Project Management Professional Certification
5 days ago