Project Manager

IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION CANDIDATE MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE TITLE OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ANALYST, OR BE REACHABLE ON THE CIVIL

SERVICE LIST, EXAM #9058, OR ELIGIBLE UNDER THE 55A PROGRAM.

The New York City Department of Transportation's (NYC DOT) provides safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of pedestrians, goods, and vehicular traffic on the streets, highways, bridges, and waterways of the City's transportation network.

NYC DOT rehabilitates and maintains the City's infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, streets, sidewalks, and highways.

The NYC DOT IT & Telecom division is an award-winning team leading business transformation through technology innovation to enhance the agency's ability to fulfill its' mission.

IT & Telecom acts as a strategic partner with all business units to promote technology initiatives by delivering quality service, and secure solutions that provide new and improved capabilities for the Agency.

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone in the division to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

We offer our full-time employee's competitive salaries, excellent benefit options and perks that include :

Pension and Retirement Plans- Upon retirement, qualified members of the City's generous pension program receive a guaranteed salary and health benefits for the rest of their lives.

There are also 401K and 457 plans available to supplement your retirement needs.

• Health Care Coverage- We offer a multitude of health care plans that are sure to meet the needs of you and your family.
• Dental and Vision Coverage- We offer a wide variety of excellent civil service title-based union dental and vision coverage for individuals and families.
• Paid Time Off- We offer paid vacation and sick time off which accrues over time based on your years of service.
• Professional Development - We offer numerous training programs, leadership development opportunities, and career coaching services, while encouraging employees to attend approved off and on-site trainings and seminars.
• Additional Perks - Our employees are eligible for discounts on top theme parks, hotels, shows, events, movies and more.

Under managerial direction, perform extremely difficult, responsible and complex work in planning, coordinating and overseeing the development and progress of major IT projects.

This will include making determination of costs, of time estimates and of requirements associated with each IT project. The candidate will be responsible for, design, development, maintenance, enhancement and support of all agency applications on web, client-server, mainframe and network platforms.

The candidate will lead in-house development teams, as well as consultant teams, while working on a variety of complex projects simultaneously, in addition to performing related work.

The candidate will report directly to the Director of the Project Management Office. The candidate will have wide latitude to exercise independent judgment and implement initiatives.

• The principle responsibilities of the position will be to : define project scope, develops schedules, establishes budget / cost, goals and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with stakeholders and senior management;
• apply project management concepts, principles, and practices for delivering tactical or strategic projects that are high in complexity;
• serve as an in-house expert and authority regarding computer application development for programs of varying degrees of complexity and specialization;
• monitor project activities and resources in order to mitigate risk; supervise a programming staff engaged in work involving computer application development;
• work closely with Project Management Office to ensure completion of projects on-time and on-budget; implement or maintain quality assurance processes;
• contribute to DOT's strategic planning initiatives by suggesting / understanding available technology options to satisfy current and future business needs;
• create and maintain strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery; effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and coherent fashion;
• ensure successful completion of solution implementations utilizing strong leadership, project and resource management skills;
• create and maintain application development project plans that communicate tasks, milestone dates, status and resource allocation;
• set up Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes following standard development methodologies (Agile Scrum / Waterfall / RUP);
• brainstorm / communicate solution ideas with the team, clients, and management to ensure all stakeholders are engaged and are part of the solution;

show expertise in using project management tools such as MS-Project, Project Server, Jira , Primavera, Azure Dev Ops and / or Microsoft Visio.

Thoughtfully recommends changes, monitors Change Management Plan, ensures Quality Management Plan is followed, regularly reviews project performance metrics and generates reports that reveal project status, efficacy, forecasts needs and highlights deficiencies.

Proactively identifies stakeholder points of conflict and potential project issues while identifying project risks & issues to minimize project performance impacts.

Minimum Qualifications

• 1. A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following : working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research;
• in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning / administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning / evaluation, or fiscal management;

or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory capacity.

Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above.

Preferred Skills

Candidates should have the PMP Certification in Project Management and a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in successfully overseeing medium to large scale projects containing sub-projects and distinct deliverables.

Experience in managing application development projects using Microsoft .NET, Open Source (LAMP / Drupal / Ruby on Rails), Java / J2EE / WebSphere, and utilization of Microsoft Project and other project management tools on highly technical, large scale projects are desired.

Prior experience in federal / state / local government projects will be a plus.

55a Program

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs.

For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education's website at https : / / studentaid.gov / pslf / .

Residency Requirement

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County.

To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.