IT PROJECT SPECIALIST

The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) leverages technology to drive opportunity, improve public safety, and help government run better across New York City. From delivering affordable broadband to protecting against cybersecurity threats and building digital government services, OTI is at the forefront of how the city delivers for New Yorkers in the 21st century. Watch our welcome video to see our work in action, follow us on social media NYCOfficeofTech, and visit www.oti.nyc.gov to learn more. At OTI, we offer great benefits, and the chance to work on projects that have a meaningful impact on millions of people. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with other passionate professionals who share your drive and commitment to making a difference through technology. The successful candidate will serve as a Public Safety IT Master Scheduler reporting to the Public Safety IT Programs Division. Responsibilities will include: • Organize, implement and maintain the scheduling management system supporting identified projects and their plans; • Assist setting up tasks and sub tasks to ensure satisfactory realization of project requirements as scheduled; • Log project time-lines and maintain a master, integrated schedule of tasks and their status; • Roll up individual project plans and dependencies into an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and provide summary level schedule visuals for coordination and reporting purposes; • Interact with project staff to schedule work, coordinate assignments and identification of variances from original/baseline plans; • Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas; • Analyze critical path and constraints to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-around; • Develop and update weekly short interval/upcoming milestone schedule; • Assist project teams to develop and maintain periodic status reports to keep management informed on project progress regarding schedule; • Conduct what-if analyses to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules; • Define and implement the change control management processes for identifying, organizing, assessing, and executing updates to project scope and any related deliverables or solution components, ensure that projects adhere to the change control management processes and that change control is properly governed; • Work in conjunction with the Program Director and Project Management team to manage change control and ensure consistency and alignment of change control management across the program; • Ensure that the risk associated with each change is well understood by ensuring that the Change Board has the necessary functional and business representation plus comprehensive impact information from the appropriate project teams; • Ensure that changes are performed in an efficient and effective manner with minimal disruption, and are recorded, evaluated, authorized, prioritized, planned, communicated, tested, implemented, documented and reviewed in a consistent and controlled manner; • Perform special projects and initiatives as assigned. HOURS/SHIFT Day - Due to the necessary technical support duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings. WORK LOCATION Brooklyn, NY TO APPLY * Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration Please go to www.cityjobs/jobs/search and search for Job ID #802390 SUBMISSION OF A RESUME IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INTERVIEW APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT APPROVAL OTI participates in E-Verify