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Job Description

The Office of Budget Administration (OBA) is responsible for the planning, developing and coordination the Agency’s budget and for monitoring Agency’s revenues, expenditures and staffing for all HRA’s programs. The primary responsibility encompasses all social service and administrative programs directly operated and contracted by the Agency with a $10.6 billion-dollar budget. The IT Programs and Agencywide AOTPS Contracts unit oversees the Information Technology Services (ITS) expense budget, monitors ITS spending, reviews and approves fiscal requests, and ensures expenses are within the approved budget. Additionally, the unit oversees the ITS Capital Budget that supports DSS/HRA and DHS programs. The unit also manages the agencywide contracts for temp staff and language translation.

The Office of Budget Administration (OBA) requests to fill one (1) IT Project Specialist to function as an IT Programs Budget Manager in the IT Programs and Agencywide AOTPS Contracts unit who will:

- Oversee the expense and capital budgets for ITS.

- Review and evaluate ITS’ ongoing fiscal requests and proposals and formulate appropriate

recommendations.

- Review and evaluate ITS’ spending plan, including insourcing and resource coordination and

all consultant and headcount requests for the maintenance of applications/ hardware/software/

new projects.

- Assure all budgetary functions and processes meet the fiscal requirements of the City, State

and Federal governments.

- Serve as a liaison to Mayor’s Office of Management & Budget (OMB), the Comptroller’s Office,

City Council, and other oversight agencies on all budgetary matters for ITS.

- Evaluate IT capital projects requests and provide guidance in the preparation of the

Certificate to Proceed for submission to OMB.

- Assist with major Expense and Capital Plans exercises (September Plan, November Plan,

Preliminary Budget, Executive Budget, and Adopted Budget).

- Advise senior management regarding financial plan changes and expenditure trends in

response to press, audit, or other oversight agency requests for information.

- Responsible for special projects as needed.

IT PROJECT SPECIALIST - 95710

Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or

2. An associate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or

3. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or

4. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1", "2", or "3" 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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

Salary Min: $ 95,000.00

Salary Max: $110,000.00