Executive Director of Strategic Projects- Bureau of Communications
Executive Director of Strategic Projects- Bureau of Communications
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The Fire Department City of New York (FDNY) seeks a fulltime Executive Director of Strategic Projects in the Bureau of Communications. Reporting directly to the Bureau of Communications head the successful candidate will serve as the primary point of contact and lead for the Bureau regarding all strategic initiatives and projects within the portfolio as well as serve to represent the Bureau on strategic projects and initiatives outside the Bureau as a stakeholder and facilitator. The Executive Director of Strategic Projects duties include: Establish and oversee the Bureaus projects and strategic initiatives and supervise BOC staff in the coordination of critical projects such as the requirements gathering and test/validation stages of CAD system enhancements and replacements; coordinating stakeholders including call takers dispatchers and operational staff to improve callhandling and process flows for incidents being processed through the 911 system; provide coordination for evaluating new software or initiatives in the BOC operation such as innovations to incorporate optimization and Artificial Intelligence; provide and facilitate project tracking to senior executives in the agency as needed and participate in internal and external steering committees with partners as needed. The Executive Director should demonstrate strong understanding of NYCs 911 systems and infrastructure and be prepared to bring innovation to streamline performance and improve callprocessing and dispatch times for FDNY responses to incidents; Provide SME with implementing various department initiatives including alternative transport telemedicine BHEARD and technological expansions for 911 including Textand administrative services. The ED will also develop strategic and workable plans for quality assurance and outreach for the bureau; Partner with IT and other stakeholders in coordination of existing and new initiatives such as the Next Generation 911; Telephone and Radio; EMSCAD replacement; FireCAD Tech Refresh; PSAC 1 refresh etc.
The Executive Director will serve to foster continuous planning and datadriven decisionmaking for the Bureau of Communications while promoting a culture of innovation for the team. The successful ED candidate is an excellent communicator and teamplayer and able to respond to pressure in a fastpaced frontline support Bureau that operates 24/7 as needed.
Qualifications :
1. A masters degree from an accredited college in economics finance accounting business or public administration human resources management management science operations research organizational behavior industrial psychology statistics personnel administration labor relations psychology sociology human resources development political science urban studies or a closely related field and two years of satisfactory fulltime professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration accounting economic or financial administration or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis operations research organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration recruitment position classification personnel relations employee benefits staff development employment program planning/administration labor market research economic planning social services program planning/evaluation or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive managerial administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or
2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in 1 above including the 18 months of executive managerial administrative or supervisory experience 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
Employment Type
Full-time
