Project Manager

About This Role

Lead the modernization initiative for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation by coordinating planning, delivery, and oversight across multiple teams and stakeholders. The role ensures alignment between technical analysis, business process improvements, and executive priorities for over 90 legacy applications.

Responsibilities

• Guide planning and coordination across Systems Analysts, Business Analysts, IT teams, and business stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Facilitate working groups, sprint planning, and review sessions.
• Track issues, risks, and decisions and manage escalation processes.
• Monitor interdependencies across divisions, regions, offices, and technical workstreams.
• Ensure consistent communication across internal teams and external agency partners.
• Prepare status reports, executive updates, and progress briefings.
• Support alignment between project activities and DEC’s strategic and operational goals.
• Manage task assignments, facilitate coordination, and maintain accountability.
• Use project tracking tools such as Planner, Excel, Teams, or equivalent.
• Adapt to ad-hoc priorities and provide organizational leadership support.

Requirements

• 84+ months experience managing multi-divisional technology or business modernization projects.
• 84 months experience developing and maintaining detailed project plans, schedules, and risk logs.
• 84 months experience communicating with cross-functional teams, executive leadership, and partner agencies.
• 48 months experience coordinating application modernization, remediation, or system replacement initiatives.
• 48 months experience managing projects involving both technical and business process components.
• 36 months experience managing Agile or hybrid teams.
• 36 months experience using project tracking tools such as Microsoft Planner, Jira, MS Project.
• 36 months Experience producing executive-level updates and supporting fast-turnaround requests.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or other comparable project management certification.

Qualifications

• 84+ months of experience leading large teams and extensive industry experience in project management.

Skills

* Required skills

Certifications