City of New York

Company DescriptionJob Description

The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS is committed to preventing and addressing homelessness in New York City by employing a variety of innovative strategies to help families and individuals successfully exit shelter and return to self-sufficiency as quickly as possible.

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) is recruiting for one (1) Strategic Initiative 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.

Hours/Schedule: 9-5

STRATEGIC INITIATIVE SPECIALIS - 50938

Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree and two (2) years of responsible full-time paid experience

in one or more of the fields of: information technology, methods analysis,

operations research, systems analysis, financial administration, cost effectiveness,

or fiscal and economic program or design evaluation; or

2. A satisfactory equivalent of education and experience. However, all candidates

must possess at least one year of the experience as described under “1”.

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.