Project Management Office Director

About the New York City Police Pension Fund
The New York City Police Pension Fund (NYCPPF or the Fund) is dedicated to providing superior service to its 33000 active members and 53000 retired members of the New York City Police Department. We remain committed to providing courteous professional service by providing customized attention throughout our lifelong partnership with the uniformed staff of the NYPD and their families. We are looking for individuals with passion dedication and commitment to excellence and innovation who are interested in adding to our dynamic and collaborative work environment. Please visit us at to learn more.

Job Description
The Project Management Office (PMO) is responsible for the Funds software implementation project. The Fund is currently amid a multiyear multiphased rollout of its pension administration system for the Comprehensive Officers Pension System (COPS) 2.0 project; this includes both a LineOfBusiness application for the Funds staff and a SelfService portal for the membership which allows members to view retirement benefit information and transact with the Fund online. The Project Management Office also serves the agencys operational units in providing support and business continuity for special projects.

We are seeking a resultsdriven PMO Director to lead strategic project delivery across technical and business areas of the Fund. This role is responsible for overseeing the planning and completion of project initiatives in alignment with the Funds priorities. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership exceptional communication skills and the ability to manage complex projects with minimal oversight. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Lifecycle Management
Lead endtoend project activities including design requirements testing training and delivery
Coordinate efforts between business subject matter experts (SMEs) system integrators and Quality Assurance (QA) partners
Manage Agile and Waterfall development processes including scope qualification documentation oversight and risk reporting
Ensure timely approvals issue resolution and readiness for each project phase
Drive improvement initiatives using creative collaboration techniques emerging methodologies and automation tools.
and Change Management
Oversee identification and resolution of issues during all project phases
Manage crossteam resources to support issue remediation and retesting
Lead the Change Request process from intake to production deployment ensuring stakeholder alignment and prioritization
Integration
Collaborate with business leads to analyze operational impacts across units and ensure cohesive functional designs
Facilitate SME engagement in design and testing activities across units
Management
Partner with the PPF IT unit and vendors to schedule and deploy production changes
Prioritize deployments based on business impact and operational readiness
Manage change orders and product upgrades including testing documentation and reporting
Coordinate all vendor product upgrades and deployments for testing and production release
Planning and Performance Management
Lead scheduling resource planning and backlog management in collaboration with project leads
Monitor project health generate dashboards and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) across all phases
Ensure timely entrance and exit criteria evaluations for each project phase
Management and Development
Direct and manage the PMO team establishing performance expectations allocating resources and tracking outcomes
Develop team capabilities through mentoring coaching feedback and performance evaluations
Align team efforts with agency strategy and operational goals
Administration
Develop PMO project budgets and funding requests. Monitor expenditures and report variances to the CSO.
Develop project vendor requests for proposals (RFPs) and participate in vendor selection.
Projects
Support the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) with special initiatives and highpriority assignments as needed

Work Location: 233 Broadway New York NY 10279

Shift: 9:00 AM 5:00 PM

HOW TO APPLY
CITY EMPLOYEES: Go to Employee Self Service (ESS) at and search for Job ID#: 711360
ALL OTHER APPLICANTS: Go to and search for Job ID#: 711360

Candidates must be permanent or on a viable civil service list in the Computer Systems Manager title to be considered for this position.

Salary: The hiring rate being offered for this position is $100000. If you possess the preferred skills above consideration will be given to offer you a maximum annual salary of no more than $120000. The salary is nonnegotiable.

Additional Information

NOTE: This is a fulltime onsite position. The incumbent will be required to report to the office on a regular basis.

A career with the New York City government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a City employee you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your City career very rewarding including a Pension Plan with the New York City Employees Retirement System that offers health insurance benefits upon retirement. Please speak with your Human Resources Representative to learn more.

COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGER 10050

Qualifications :

1. A masters degree in computer science from an accredited college or university and three 3 years of progressively more responsible fulltime satisfactory experience in Information Technology (IT) including applications development systems development data communications and networking database administration data processing or user services. At least eighteen 18 months of this experience must have been in an administrative managerial or executive capacity in the areas of applications development systems development data communications and networking database administration data processing or in the supervision of staff performing these duties; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and four 4 years of progressively more responsible fulltime satisfactory experience as described in 1 above; or

3. A fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six 6 years of progressively more responsible fulltime satisfactory experience as described in 1 above; or

4. A satisfactory combination of education and experience equivalent to 1 2 or 3 above. However all candidates must have at least a fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent and must possess at least three 3 years of experience as described in 1 above including the eighteen 18 months of administrative managerial executive or supervisory experience as described in 1 above.

In the absence of a baccalaureate degree undergraduate credits may be substituted for a maximum of two 2 years of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 semester credits for six 6 months of the required experience. Graduate credits in computer science may be substituted for a maximum of one 1 year of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits in computer science for one 1 year of the required IT experience. However undergraduate and/or graduate credits may not be substituted for the eighteen 18 months of experience in an administrative managerial executive or supervisory capacity as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime