This is a 18 month opportunity on the Hourly-Based IT Services (HBITS) Contract at the State of New York. (Possibility of extension).

Required Experience:

• 60 months of experience working with the business unit, a third-party vendor, and technical staff from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to facilitate design sessions and ensure that system requirements are documented and approved by the business unit.
• 60 Months of experience managing a software implementation vendor to ensure that project deliverables are completed and the project is moving forward as scheduled.
• 36 months of experience using project management software such as Smartsheet, MS Visio, and MS Project.
• 60 Months of experience performing project management activities such as: creating and maintaining a project schedule, creating and maintaining stakeholder registers and roles & responsibilities matrix; developing project management plans and peripheral plans (communication, scope management, change management), and tracking risks, issues, decisions and action items.
• 60 Months of experience performing project management activities such as: leading and facilitating status meetings, drafting meeting notes; disseminating meeting notes to project team members, and conducting follow-up to ensure that the action items have been completed.
• 60 months of experience working with technical staff from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to facilitate environment setup, single-sign-on setup, APIs, user authentication, and other technical aspects of the project.
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Project Management Professional Certification
• 36 months of experience working with the business unit, a third-party vendor, and technical staff from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to coordinate system walk-throughs and document feedback from the sessions. This includes working with a third-party vendor and technical staff from the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to ensure that specified requirements have been built, tested, and accepted.
• 36 Months of experience facilitating the testing phase by creating and managing the requirements traceability matrix; scheduling and facilitating testing status meetings; assisting with preparing test scenarios & test cases; scheduling and facilitating defect resolution sessions.