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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 01/13/21

Applications Due01/23/21

Vacancy ID84185

AgencyWorkers' Compensation Board

TitleProject Manager 2, WCB Item #4119

Occupational CategoryOther Professional Careers

Salary Grade25

Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary RangeFrom $81446 to $102661 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 9 AM

To 5 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? No

County Schenectady

Street Address Office of Program Research and Development/ Strategic Planning

328 State Street

City Schenectady

StateNY

Zip Code12305

Minimum Qualifications Candidates must be reachable on the appropriate Civil Service eligible list.

OR

Candidates must have permanently served at least one year in a title designated as appropriate for transfer in accordance with Section 52.6 of the Civil Service Law.

Duties Description The Project Manager 2 will be assigned to the Strategic Planning unit. Duties include, but not limited to:

• Serve as a project manager on medium to large scaled projects in the portfolio.
• Develop project planning documents including project scope documents, project schedules and communication plans.
• Identify project milestones, dependencies and budget.
• Track the performance of the project (cost, scope, schedule, and quality).
• Identify, document, and track decisions, risks, issues, and action items.
• Work with ITS and impacted business units to gather estimates for new projects.
• Determine impacts of change requests to assigned projects as well as assist in determining overall impacts to the agency portfolio and ITS/WCB resources.
• Organize and maintain a project SharePoint site of all project related documentation.
• Facilitate project steering committee meetings
• Facilitate approval of project deliverables with Project Sponsor and executive management
• Develop and distribute weekly written project status reports
• Coordinate the submission of project change control requests with the ITS/WCB governance process. Support the Board's project portfolio including:
o Maintaining a list of pending projects and pending project requests
o Assisting with project prioritization
o Assisting with strategic planning
• Interface with the ITS Customer Relations Manager and ITS Project Management Office as needed regarding active projects, pending project request s and address any concerns regarding the Agency's portfolio.
• Represent WCB projects in various ITS Governance meetings including CEB, CARB, CITRB, ad hoc meetings regarding active projects and pending projects.
• Provide guidance on project performance measurements
• Work with the Contracts unit to develop and manage vendor contracts and the work associated, if/as needed for assigned projects.

Additional Comments *This is being posted in anticipation of an approved DOB waiver.

Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.

Name Recruitment Unit

Telephone 518-474-2685

Fax 518-486-6364

Email Address HRM@WCB.NY.GOV

Address

Street Human Resources Management- Room 133

328 State Street

City Schenectady

State NY

Zip Code 12305

 

Notes on ApplyingQualified candidates should send a letter of interest and resume which lists your actual Civil Service title, salary grade and specific verifiable information as to how you meet the minimum qualifications to be eligible to apply for this position. Please send your application to HRM@WCB.ny.gov (email applications are preferred). It is important that you reference the WCB Item #4119 in the subject line of your email to ensure receipt of your application. (Please do not reference the Vacancy ID No.)

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