01754 - Prog Mgmt Analyst
About The Position
Provide analysis and support to an assigned program area by planning, developing, monitoring, and evaluating projects, programs, and policies. Review and coordinate development and implementation of the district’s Six-Year Improvement Program (SYIP), including management of financial functions for construction- and maintenance-funded projects. Monitor project development and ensure project estimates and schedules comply with VDOT policies. Determine functional classification and federal eligibility; program and transfer funds; and coordinate with district staff to support timely development and delivery of district and regional projects. Serve as a liaison between local government and the programming division on scheduling and budgeting matters, and implement recommended scheduling changes in iPM for district projects. The role supports federal strategy activities, district programming and project management, funding transfers and authorizations, project closeout, delivery-performance monitoring, and maintenance of project data across systems. It also coordinates district implementation of program-management tools, maintains system integrity, develops data checks and trend analysis, and reviews project-manager revisions to project schedules, estimates, and other information. VDOT employees must abide by VDOT’s Code of Ethics and the Commonwealth’s Standards of Conduct.
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge of federal, state, and local transportation laws, regulations, policies, and operations.
- Advanced understanding of how project phases, schedules, and estimates relate to the SYIP, SSYPs, STIP, TIPs, and federal strategy.
- Considerable experience monitoring, analyzing, and reconciling programming and financial data.
- Experience with transportation funding, including budgeting and finance.
- Skill in using computers and software applications.
- Ability to analyze, research, and interpret data, including complex financial and detailed numerical data.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse audiences and varying levels of management.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to mediate difficult issues with municipal councils, staff, department staff, and citizens.
- Ability to plan and conduct training, presentations, and meetings.
- Skill in problem-solving and decision-making.
- Skill in using reporting tools.
Nice To Haves
- Training, experience, or education in Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
- Certification in Project Management.
- Experience in financial management, highway design and engineering, roadway construction, planning, or programming.
- Knowledge of VDOT financial and project data management systems, including iSYP, PAM, Cardinal, Project Pool, Federal Strategy Database, and Project Closeout Database.
- Advanced knowledge of VDOT financial and project data management systems, including iSYP, PAM, Cardinal, Project Pool, Federal Strategy Database, and Project Closeout Database.
- Advanced knowledge of transportation funding requirements and regulations, as well as budgeting and finance policies and procedures.
Responsibilities
- Assist with coordination of district activities associated with the federal strategy, including identifying projects for inclusion.
- Monitor project status on the federal strategy and communicate potential issues to district administration.
- Coordinate submissions of project modification reports to the CO Federal Programs Division.
- Coordinate with district staff to maintain programming in computer systems and check the accuracy of project phases, schedules, and estimates.
- Coordinate project funding transfers and federal and state authorizations with the CO Federal Programs Division.
- Assist with the project closeout process.
- Monitor project delivery performance measures in Dashboard and communicate available project funding.
- Monitor and update iPM and other systems.
- Coordinate district implementation of program-management system tools, including iPM, Project Pool, Schedule, PCES, Dashboard, and Cardinal.
- Review and approve district-level funding transfers for construction and maintenance funds, obtain concurrence, and submit them to the Federal Programs Division for approval.
- Maintain districtwide system integrity, oversee data changes, and develop checks and balances for project data and trend analysis.
- Review and approve project-manager revisions to schedules, estimates, and other project information.
- Plan, develop, monitor, and evaluate projects, programs, and policies in the assigned program area.
- Review and coordinate development and implementation of the district’s SYIP, managing financial functions on construction- and maintenance-funded projects.
- Monitor project development and ensure estimates and schedules comply with VDOT policies.
- Determine functional classification and federal eligibility; program and transfer funds.
- Meet with district staff to support timely development and delivery of district and regional projects.
- Act as liaison between local government and the programming division on scheduling and budgeting matters.
- Implement recommended scheduling changes in iPM for district projects.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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