IT Project Manager

Canfield Consulting Group (CCG) has a requirement for IT project managers to support several projects with the New York City Department of Social Services (DSS)/Information Technology Services (ITS). ITS’s principal goal is to provide and continue to enhance the technology infrastructure and computer applications that are in place to support the present and future business requirements of all organizations within DSS. This infrastructure has enabled DSS to maximize and improve its ability to deliver timely, quality services to DSS clients and to the public within New York City, as well as obtain administrative benefits.

Tasks and duties will include:

• Develop comprehensive project management plans
• Lead the planning and implementation of the project
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
• Define project tasks and resource requirements
• Manage project execution from start through completion
• Plan and schedule project timelines
• Track project deliverables using appropriate tools
• Provide direction and support to the project team
• Provide management reporting and information dissemination
• Constantly monitor and report on the progress of the project to all stakeholders
• Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
• Publish project meeting agendas and minutes from discussions
• Provide project quality assurance
• Develop quality assurance metrics to measure outputs
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
• Ensure all projects changes meet the developed quality assurance metrics before it is released to the user

Required Skills

• Minimum 7 Years’ Experience in overseeing large-scale, complex projects, comprised of a number of deliverables and/or number of phases
• Minimum 7 Years official point of contact for Issuing Entity regarding project status, meetings, reporting requirements, scope changes, and issues and concerns raised by staff or Issuing Entity
• Minimum 7 Years’ Experience with management of timeline: Making sure the tasks are as per the scheduled date and timely reporting of the project status to the management as per the project plan
• Minimum 7 Years’ Experience in Business Analysis and Project Management Techniques, SCRUMand Agile Development Methodologies and Sprint Delivery

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in an information technology-related field
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Certifications in Microsoft and Unix
• SCRUM and/or Agile certifications