Project Manager

Expert Project Manager

NYSED will be starting the Office of College and University Evaluation (OCUE) Technology Modernization effort soon and is seeking an expert-level Project Manager to oversee the selection of the implementation approach, the writing of the RFQ/RFP, and the implementation of the project resulting from said RFQ/RFP. The Expert Project Manager is expected to provide full management and oversight of the assigned project(s). Understanding the OCUE and Office of Professions (OP) leadership vision and strategy, s(he) will guide the project teams through the system development life cycle and is directly responsible for project planning, organization, control, security, integration and implementation.

The Project Manager will work alongside members of the OCUE program area and ITS within SED to perform the following:

• Establish and manage various project plans and schedule;
• Hold RFP development meetings and gather information to develop RFP for system design, development, implementation, legacy data migration and post-implementation support; Liaison with the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) and Contracts Administration Unit for the RFP development;
• After selection of the winning RFP, candidate will be responsible for aiding the program area and ITS in overall management of the resulting project;
• Lead periodic team meetings, independently conduct requirements gathering sessions, analyze interdependencies and prioritize needs;
• Using Jira/Confluence and/or MS Project, convert Estimates into Releases and Sprints with timelines;
• Bring synergies with other SED projects, manage cross team dependencies and escalate any roadblocks;
• Guide team members and follow-up for timely tasks completion;
• Manage project risks and changes with appropriate impact analysis and risk mitigating interventions;
• Hold daily scrums, and other agile ceremonies to achieve the planned milestones;
• Ensure stories, done/acceptance criteria, test strategies are defined well and set-up processes from same;
• Manage schedule, cost, efforts, quality of deliverables and risks/contingency planning;
• Facilitate management and technical meetings, sending MOM and tracking actions;
• Managing RAID for projects - (Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies)
• Develops and implements project management processes, tools and artifacts;
• Track project progress and publish project health reports;
• Maintain project status with tools like Jira/Confluence, Selenium, MPP, Salesforce, Visio, SharePoint and other MS tools

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