The successful candidate will serve as a Project Manager reporting to the Public Safety and Emergency Management Programs Unit. The Project Manager will manage a variety of projects encompassing application development, COTS, infrastructure, or a combination of each of these types of projects, in addition to providing senior level management support for the Project delivery team and support functions. Responsibilities will include: -Determine the project approach, resource requirements, team roles and responsibilities, and schedule -Develop and review estimates and assumptions for the projects schedule, effort, and cost using established estimating models, best practices, and past experience -Create project charter and scope statements, weekly status reports, risk and issues log and other project deliverables -Manage projects throughout the entire assessment and development life-cycle, providing direction for project teams and monitoring the progress of deliverables and tasks; -Create and manage project, risk mitigation, and communication plans -Plan, track, communicate with, and drive infrastructure solution; build and support resources -Work closely with executive level leadership, as well as internal and external stakeholders -Provide oversight and management of blended teams of independent IT consultants and staff; manage vendor relationships, including participating in the creation of CPs, RFPs, review/selection of vendors, contracts, etc. -Conduct site visits, when required, to ensure correct visual requirements are captured to effectively execute the project -Manage receipt of project assets and ensure assets are correctly tagged in collaboration with PSEM SACM and technical teams -Ensure that staff and consultants adhere to the published PMO methodology and development standards defined for the PMO -Engage in PMO-related functions including monitoring budget and ensuring that established communication plans, risk management, and similar processes are adhered to -Define team member roles and expectations and ensure that project resources are used effectively -Participate in the review of project artifacts including technical requirements, user experience design, architecture, testing and implementation documentation -Develop training plans and future support needs -Manage project close out and transition of all project artifacts and knowledge to agency staff prior to disengaging from a project -Identify future support needs and work with appropriate units to assist the agency with articulating and requesting these resources -Support and contribute to the Program's goal of ongoing process improvement, and adherence to Project Management Institute's PMBOK and OTI published project methodologies -Report to senior management within the Program, OTI and stakeholder agencies on project status -Supervise and mentor Project Managers/Assistant Project Managers -Support the Director of Project Management with managing PMO functions including: change requests, document and deliverable management, scheduling, reporting, etc -Address client concerns and escalate all project issues appropriately and manage them to resolution -Perform special projects and initiatives assigned. HOURS/SHIFT Day - Due to the necessary technical duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings. WORK LOCATION Brooklyn, NY TO APPLY * Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration Please go to www.cityjobs/jobs/search and search for Job ID #769692 IT PROJECT SPECIALIST - 95710 Qualifications 1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or 2. An associate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or 3. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or 4. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1", "2", or "3" above. Additional Information