Project Manager : The Office of Pupil Transportation (NYC OPT)

Interview : Video

Visa : USC, GC, GC EAD, H4, L2

This is hybrid from day-1

Description :

Candidate must have Public / state / transportation field experience.

Overview

The Office of Pupil Transportation, OPT, oversees busing and Metrocards for the students of New York City.

As part of OPT operations, the Planning and Innovation (P&I) team is responsible for providing guidance and standards in the execution of projects.

P&I creates tangible goals, aligned with the overall organization's vision, and ensure all targets are met. Guidance comes in the forms of project

templates, standardized processes, standardized methodology, requirements for product development and enhancements. Currently, P&I is engaged

in a pathbreaking modernization initiative. The NYC School Transportation Modernization Project will solve problems for caregivers, students, school

administrators, drivers (external stakeholders) and OPT staff (Internal stakeholders). This is an extensive business process reengineering initiative

involving change in business processes, use of new products and replacing old applications.

We are looking to supplement the existing team with one (1) Project Manager to help keep these time sensitive initiatives on track. We hope that

the resource will be able to work in tandem with the existing team to leverage their deep business knowledge and expand our current operations

and scope.

High-Level Effort Goals : Manage, monitor, track, milestones, collect, maintain and revise requirements, test, train and release projects.

Project Manager : Oversee the planning, organizing, development, and implementation of P&I managed initiatives related to management

information processing systems, programs, and projects.

JOB DETAILS

OUTLINE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversees the Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC), which encompasses the planning, organizing, and managing of resources

required for the successful completion of specific projects goals and objectives. This includes developing detailed project plans,

establishing milestones, defining the resources required, and coordinating all project activities with business

owners / stakeholders and technical teams to meet key IT service delivery objectives.

details, abstracts up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the

underlying true needs.

establishing a logical process in developing application information systems, requirements and authentication, which will result

in the production of a highly qualified system that meets or exceed expectations within time and cost estimates.

approaches, tasks, deliverables, work estimates, assumptions, dependencies, etc.

and status reports. Meets regularly with other related application support areas to ensure that integration issues are identified

and addressed.

problem-solving and competing priorities resolution.

MANDATORY MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate must have minimally achieved the following level of experience :

development. Public / state / transportation field experience