Senior Project Manager

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in New York City seeks an experienced IT Project Manager to lead enterprise-scale initiatives for the NYC Department of Education. You will oversee schedules, budgets, risks, and cross-functional teams to deliver contract-mandated outcomes.

Responsibilities include coordinating stakeholders, maintaining SDLC compliance, and ensuring timely delivery of all deliverables while aligning with DOE expectations and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Experience managing large-scale enterprise IT projects.
• Proven leadership and strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with SDLC methodologies (Agile and Waterfall).

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct project personnel; serve as main contact for NYC DOE.
• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project schedules, work plans, milestones, and resources.
• Manage project scope, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, and overall performance.
• Ensure timely delivery of all deliverables per contract and DOE expectations.
• Coordinate activities across business, technical, testing, training, reporting, and data management teams.
• Facilitate status meetings, executive briefings, and stakeholder communications.
• Monitor quality; ensure compliance with DOE standards, SDLC methodologies, and QA processes.
• Manage change requests, issue resolution, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with DOE leadership on strategic planning and continuous improvement.
• Ensure coordination between contractor personnel, DOE staff, and third parties.

Skills

Large-scale IT projects

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Stakeholder management

Jira

MS Project

MS Visio

HP ALM/Quality Center

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Visio

HP ALM/Quality Center

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct all project personnel and serve as the primary point of contact for NYC DOE.
• Develop, maintain, and manage the integrated project schedule, work plans, milestones, and resource allocations.
• Manage project scope, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, and overall project performance.
• Ensure timely delivery of all project deliverables in accordance with contract requirements and DOE expectations.
• Coordinate project activities across business, technical, testing, training, reporting, and data management teams.
• Facilitate project status meetings, executive briefings, and stakeholder communications.
• Monitor project quality and ensure compliance with DOE standards, SDLC methodologies, and quality assurance processes.
• Manage project change requests, issue resolution, and risk mitigation activities.
• Collaborate with DOE leadership to support strategic planning, decision-making, and continuous process improvement.
• Ensure effective coordination between contractor personnel, DOE staff, and third-party stakeholders.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale enterprise information technology projects.
• Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Extensive experience managing project schedules, budgets, resource planning, and risk management.
• Proficiency using Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, HP ALM/Quality Center, and Jira.
• Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including both Agile and Waterfall.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary technical teams supporting application development, testing, business analysis, training, data management, and reporting initiatives.