Senior Consultant- Program Manager

NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company, advising agencies, organizations, institutions, and businesses since 1996. We're independent and vendor-neutral, so we have our clients' best interests at heart. At NYSTEC, we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally, so our benefits and perks support that mindset.

As a program manager in the Technology Procurement and Implementation Services (TPIS) practice, you will work closely with the client leadership team to adopt a holistic and systemic approach to ensure the alignment of technical and business decisions across the projects in scope for a program.

In this role, you will work with the client leadership team to understand and advise on overall program direction, project implementation and new project efforts. You will provide leadership and guidance to resources assigned to projects within the program and facilitate communication and collaboration among resources and stakeholders across projects. You will collaborate with team members, clients, vendors, and third parties to plan and oversee technology projects, ensuring that they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget. Much of the work in this role entails working directly with executives and external partners; thus, this role needs someone with excellent relationship management skills and business acumen.

• Understand the program, policies, and strategic goals of our client.
• Develop and maintain project work plans and drive activities to meet project milestones and deliverables.
• Coordinate and identify synergies among the program's multiple deliverables.
• Identify and communicate risks and mitigation strategies to project sponsors.
• Organize and maintain the stakeholder communication process.
• Report to client executives on progress, milestones, and statuses.
• Perform quality control of functional deliverables to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Assist the project team with estimating the necessary resources to reach objectives and, where appropriate, manage resources to effectively deliver value to the client and/or project team.
• Continue to build and expand our executive client relationships.

• Excellent business acumen.
• Experience with executive relationship management.
• Experience leading complex initiatives.
• Experience with New York State technical projects.
• Ability to solve problems creatively.
• Ability to work both independently and with a team to develop solutions to complex problems.
• Skilled in performing tasks in a timely manner and on schedule to meet deadlines.
• Exceptional writing, documentation, and communication to meet program goals.
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to manage and develop key relationships with colleagues and clients through collaborative thinking and a strong customer focus.
• Ability to be proactive when providing updates to clients. Ability to think from the client's perspective, to anticipate their questions and needs.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite of products.

• Project management professional (PMP) or related certification.
• Excellent analytical and facilitation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project.
• Experience working on information technology projects.
• Ability to lead waterfall and agile projects.

• A bachelors' degree and four years of related program/project management experience in a business/technology setting.
• An equivalent combination of advanced education, training, and experience will be considered.

The pay range for this position is $79,793.00 to $109,716.00 per year.

It is NYSTEC's policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all individuals, regardless of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, military service and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws and ordinances. NYSTEC is strongly committed to this policy and believes in the concept and spirit of the law.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact recruitment@nystec.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for or to perform this job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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