Project Manager

24 Nov 2024

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A NYS agency located in New York, NY is looking for a Project Manager for a 6 month contract.

Please note that this position may initially allow for work to be performed remotely. However, consultant will be required to work on-site/in-office once COVID restrictions are lifted.

To be considered for this position, the client has advised that upon placement, consultants will be required to wear a mask under certain circumstances, show proof of full vaccination or submit on a weekly basis proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR diagnostic test.

Requirements and skills

  • Executive-level communication for both the IT and business side
  • Executive-level management consulting for both the IT and business side
  • Program and project management
  • Detail-oriented workflow, process, analytical and analysis skills
  • Development methodologies and structuring management & workflow processes around them in scale
  • Change management
  • Managing risk project risk and compliance
  • IT business experience to operate the processes for a period of time
  • Knowledge and experience with agency-IT processes
  • Knowledge and experience with ServiceNow or similar platforms
  • 6+ years' experience: Change Management, Process Planning, Program Management, Risk Analysis and Management and Developing and executing new processes.

Responsibilities

  • Structure a developer tracking tool that maintains the developer side of the information link
  • Structure an SN tool that maintains the client side of the information link, including building reports and/or dashboards
  • Manage, enable, and assist developer groups to build out their tracking tools
  • Assist developers by backfilling SN transactions where necessary
  • Manage, enable and assist ARM's to build out the Agency side of the information link
  • Begin with one pilot development group
  • Continue rolling out to all appropriate development groups. For this, coordinate with management to choose and schedule dev groups.
  • As each developer group goes live in the system, monitor the system for a period of 2-4 weeks, until stable
  • Operate the "rollups" on both the developer and agency side until the last dev group is live, and then handed off to a designated internal resource
  • Develop and pilot a documented operational plan for all stakeholders
  • Manage and report progress, schedules, risks and associated remediation plans to the Deputy Chiefs
  • Create bi-directional visibility and streamline decision making
  • Manage scheduling and priority risk for units of IT work
  • Increase IT priorities being in compliance with Business Unit and Agency priorities
  • Enable Client Business Units to define project and task priorities in a manner that can effectively inform the developer groups and creates necessary visibility.
  • Enable developer groups to track tasks in a manner that creates visibility to Client Business Units to inform priorities, proposed priority changes, resource capacity and resource new needs.
  • Enable the above 2 points by: seamlessly and fully link the work documented in ServiceNow (SN) to the tasks managed in the development groups and at the individual contributor level
  • The consultant will co-report to two Deputy Chiefs: DC of Agency Relationship Management, and DC of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

About us: QED National is a leading IT consulting, solutions and staff augmentation firm, serving both the public and private sectors for over 28 years. Headquartered in midtown Manhattan, QED National's team is comprised of the brightest minds in the industry with the skills to solve the most complex technological problems.

  • ID: #23390178
  • State: New York New york city 10008 New york city USA
  • City: New york city
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-24
  • Deadline: 2022-01-23
  • Category: Et cetera