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Location

Manhattan, KS | United States

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Job description

Subcontractor will provide Project Management Services in support of ITS and the HESC Financial Aid Services Platform Modernization.

This will involve coordination and collaboration with all involved project stakeholders (e.g., ITS, HESC, vendors), project monitoring, and regular reporting.

Job Duties:

Provide guidance and direction to the HESC program's project teams on day-to-day project tasks.
Develop the program's formal project plans specifying goals, strategy, dependencies, and scheduling and 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 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.
Direct and coordinate activities of project resources to see that the project progresses on schedule and within budget.
Track project-related costs and expenditures.
Facilitate project governance and executive status meetings, project team status meetings, scrums, and recurring agile meetings by defining agendas and running meetings effectively.
Aggregate status updates from project team members, track schedules, and manage risks and issues as required.
Prepare executive project status reports and keep the team, management, and all stakeholders informed of project status and related issues, resolving and escalating as necessary.
Manage scope and the project change request process (PCR), coordinating the decision process for scope and budgetary impact if there are changes from original specifications.
Track and maintain project and technical documentation.
Manage and maintain project information in the ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM) system, Information Technology Services (ITS)/ Project Management Shared Services (PMSS) system of record for all services.
Follow established Secure System Development Life Cycle (SSDLC).

Job Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business or Public Administration, Project Management and/or Communications with a minimum of five years' relevant experience.

Master's degree in Information Technology, Business or Public Administration, Project Management and/or Communications with a minimum of three years' relevant experience.

Required Skills:

Strong analytical and facilitation skills
Experience working with technical teams
Proficiency in developing policy, process, and procedure documentation
Strong executive level communication and reporting skills
Experience as a Program/Project Manager, supporting and overseeing complex technology projects.
Managing Technology Projects that
Preferred Credentials/Certifications:

Prior work with New York State PMP or similar project management certification

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