Expert Project Manager

Job: Expert Project Manager DURATION: 30 Months LOCATION: Albany, NY Hybrid

looking to have a new Computerized Criminal History Database that meets the current needs of its stakeholders and is properly resourced to meet future needs.

Qualifications
Project Manager- Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact.
Expert- 84+ Months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.
84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing 3-5 simultaneous application development projects that include Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) projects and/or in-house projects
84 months of experience as a Project Manager creating and managing: project budgets, project schedules, scope documents, status reports, communication plans throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation to closeout
84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project
84 months of experience in creating detailed project scope documents
84 months experience with project quality planning including quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and metrics management, and quality governance.
84 months of experience in managing and leading multi-phased, high visibility projects that includes reporting to the high-level government stakeholders.
84 months of running Project Management Meetings where project deliverables and status are discussed.

Day-to-Day tasks
Work closely with the project s business functional areas involving executive and business teams, ITS Leadership, Vendor, and technical teams to develop and manage the project scope and other project management plans (PMP), approach, resource requirements and allocation, schedule, deliverables, and funding.
Provide guidance to project teams on day-to-day project tasks.
Develop the program s formal project plans specifying goals, strategy, dependencies, scheduling, identifying risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources.
Follow the standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation for all projects being managed within the NYS ITS Project Management Office (PMO).
Identify, schedule, and manage project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
Assign tasks and responsibilities and drive accountability to project team members.
Direct and coordinate complex business requirements deliveries, business process reengineering and organizational change activities.