Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abacus Service Corporation is recruiting for a Project Manager contract role supporting NYSERDA's Contract Management team. The role administers the Flexergy solicitation and provides additional support for solicitation processes, contract routing, award tracking, and related administrative functions.
Responsibilities
- Oversee scoring committees, including provisioning systems access to members, scheduling & facilitating meetings, and maintaining contact lists
- Route contracts and track progress until contracts are signed
- Facilitate NYSERDA staff in leveraging various contractor pools for their needs, which involves sending out bids to the firms, evaluating proposals, and entering Task Work Orders with the awarded firms
- Assist with routine and complex Assignment Agreements
- Provide support for set various processes and administrative functions, such as solicitation set up, processing insurance requests
- Other duties as assigned that contribute to the key outcomes of the Contract Management team
Skills
- Has well developed understanding of relevant technical principles and their application to a program area
- Develops/formulates Deployment issues, problems and needs in at least one technical area
- Has acknowledged expertise at conceptual level of technical skills and knowledge in at least one program area
- Has basic understanding of State energy/environmental economic development issues
- Has developed and managed projects with little specific direction
- Develops new projects and co-funding sources with own initiative
- Carried out development of several projects through competitive solicitation phase that may or may not result from own initiative
- Has provided ideas and rationale for program development in at least one technical area
- Has demonstrated ability to implement projects in a timely manner
- Demonstrates the capability to manage all aspects of ongoing projects with no supervision
- Is able to prioritize workload with other responsibilities
- Effectively discharges general technical and project management assignments in a timely manner
- Demonstrates strategic thinking connected to the organization's goals
- Has demonstrated ability to effectively head working groups or program teams
- Provides guidance to junior staff when appropriate and can supervise the day-to-day work of interns
- Has full confidence of peers and superiors
- People skills have developed to show leadership and an ability to motivate others
- Has demonstrated ability to produce both written material and verbal presentations that are direct, recognize and focus on issues, are both comprehensive and concise and require editing only in most sensitive and complex areas
- Is able to negotiate effectively with contractors and interface effectively with customers and other outside contacts
- Has demonstrated ability to prepare and present papers at professional meetings, seminars and conferences
- Strong work ethic and integrity
- Exceptional organizational, time management and planning skills to successfully handle multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- A keen attention to detail and a penchant for mastering and understanding details for the purpose of simplifying the landscape for others
- Extraordinary diligence, thoroughness and follow-through
- Skilled in managing multiple, diverse activities simultaneously, delivering on commitments, and operating with speed, accuracy and strong judgement
- Demonstrated problem solving ability, resourcefulness, adaptability, for surfacing value and pragmatic solutions
- Demonstrated collaboration and consensus-building skills with an ability to build productive relationships across a diverse organization
- Experience working in contracting/financial database systems
- Associates or Bachelors in Business
- Oracle Peoplesoft and/or Salesforce experience
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Laptop provided by NYSERDA
- Potential to extend beyond the initial one-year engagement
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