Job Description:
The CUNYfirst Campus Solutions Leads will offer superior client support and ensure access to modern and robust computing and communication facilities; promote and ensure consistent performance of deployed services and support the application change control process.  Directs day-to-day systems administration and support activities focused on the Campus Solutions module assigned within the CUNYfirst People implementation including testing, monitoring utilization and triaging support.

FLSA: Exempt

Compensation: Commensurate

Minimum Qualifications: High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and six (6) years of progressively responsible full-time paid information systems technology experience, in an administrative or managerial capacity.

Preferred Qualifications: Six (6) years experience with PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9 in a managerial/lead role.  Knowledge of PeopleTools 8.9x in the area of Workflow, SQR, PeopleCode, Application Engine, XML Publisher Upgrade Assistant and others.  IT savvy individuals with higher education experience working in university Admissions, Registrar, Bursar of Financial Aid office with an interest in gaining CUNYfirst (PeopleSoft) expertise may be considered.

EEO Statement: The City University of New York (CUNY) is an EO/AA Employer.  We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women to apply.  We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion.

Applications must be submitted by April 26, 2010

PREFERENCES
Candidates with significant experience programming PeopleSoft highly preferred

PROGRAM ANALYST II
Personnel in this job title may be covered by NERC CIP cyber security standards. If the position is covered, prior to being hired, promoted, or transferred into the position, the candidate must successfully pass a Personnel Risk Assessment, which includes identity verification and a criminal background check. Prior to being granted unescorted access to cyber secure areas, the candidate must attend cyber security training. Annual cyber security training is also required.

SUMMARY
Under general supervision, analyzes requirements and develops computer programs

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Develops and maintains project plans outlining plan design, schedule and cost estimate, programming and testing timetables, status reports, and application software package evaluations

Coordinates programming activities of Programmer Analyst team members

Performs enhancement and development analysis, program and system design, testing, and installation

Consults with client to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs

Writes, debugs, compiles, tests and installs program modifications and new programs or modules

Recommends hardware and software platforms, DBMS, and language

Evaluates application program and system design for compliance with standards and functional requirements

Designs and implements system security

Writes and maintains system documentation, functional specifications, data processing run books, and user manuals

Evaluates proposed software changes

Provides production problem resolution and on call support

Codes job control instructions

Performs client surveying and interviewing

Defines and documents client’s problems and areas for improvement, alternative (EDP and non-EDP) solutions, and the most cost beneficial recommendations

Assists client with long range planning

Provides hardware and software platform support for non-mainframe hardware including installation and use of system and application software, database management, monitoring, and maintaining the system for availability of resources

Assists with client training, testing, and system implementation

Assists with the department’s long-range planning

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university with emphasis in computers or related area, with five to seven years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the discipline.

PROGRAM ANALYST SR.
Personnel in this job title may be covered by NERC CIP cyber security standards. If the position is covered, prior to being hired, promoted, or transferred into the position, the candidate must successfully pass a Personnel Risk Assessment, which includes identity verification and a criminal background check. Prior to being granted unescorted access to cyber secure areas, the candidate must attend cyber security training. Annual cyber security training is also required.

SUMMARY
Under general supervision, analyzes requirements and develops computer programs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Plans for all phases of the project life cycle

Develops and maintains project plans outlining plan design, programming and testing timetables, status reports, and cost/benefit analysis

Acts as the project technical manager; coordinates team activities; assigns and reviews tasks, insures compliance with technical standards; budgets and schedules; tracks reports and corrects deviations

Recommends resource allocations and project staffing, new information systems standards and development guidelines

Prepares project manuals, improvement authorizations, work orders, and project budgets

Evaluates and recommends software packages for acquisitions based on client needs and functional requirements

Defines program and system requirements, operating constraints, file structures, data control procedures and system test criteria

Performs and documents vendor application software evaluations for efficiency, standards, maintainability, hardware compatibility, enhancements, documentation, and cost/benefit analysis

Consults with client to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs

Recommends hardware or software platforms, DBMS, and language

Evaluates application program and system design for compliance with standards and functional requirements

Designs and implements system security

Writes, debugs, compiles, tests and installs program modifications and new programs or modules

Evaluates proposed hardware or software changes

Provides production problem resolution and on call support

Codes job control instructions

Performs high-level business needs analysis

Defines and documents client’s problems or areas for improvement, alternative (EDP and non-EDP) solutions and the most cost beneficial recommendations

Performs client long-range planning, client testing and training, and system implementation

Performs hardware or software platform support for non-mainframe hardware including installation and use of system and application software, database management, monitoring and marinating the system for availability of resources

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university with an emphasis in computers or related area, and five to seven years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the discipline.

To apply go to www.pnm.com/careers and read a full job description, register, upload a resume and answer all posting questions. Deadline is no later than April 26, 2011.

PNM is an EEO/AA employer. Women, minorities, disabled individuals and veterans are encouraged to apply.

Applications must be submitted by April 26, 2010

PREFERENCES
Candidates with significant experience programming PeopleSoft highly preferred

PROGRAM ANALYST II
Personnel in this job title may be covered by NERC CIP cyber security standards. If the position is covered, prior to being hired, promoted, or transferred into the position, the candidate must successfully pass a Personnel Risk Assessment, which includes identity verification and a criminal background check. Prior to being granted unescorted access to cyber secure areas, the candidate must attend cyber security training. Annual cyber security training is also required.

SUMMARY
Under general supervision, analyzes requirements and develops computer programs

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Develops and maintains project plans outlining plan design, schedule and cost estimate, programming and testing timetables, status reports, and application software package evaluations

Coordinates programming activities of Programmer Analyst team members

Performs enhancement and development analysis, program and system design, testing, and installation

Consults with client to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs

Writes, debugs, compiles, tests and installs program modifications and new programs or modules

Recommends hardware and software platforms, DBMS, and language

Evaluates application program and system design for compliance with standards and functional requirements

Designs and implements system security

Writes and maintains system documentation, functional specifications, data processing run books, and user manuals

Evaluates proposed software changes

Provides production problem resolution and on call support

Codes job control instructions

Performs client surveying and interviewing

Defines and documents client’s problems and areas for improvement, alternative (EDP and non-EDP) solutions, and the most cost beneficial recommendations

Assists client with long range planning

Provides hardware and software platform support for non-mainframe hardware including installation and use of system and application software, database management, monitoring, and maintaining the system for availability of resources

Assists with client training, testing, and system implementation

Assists with the department’s long-range planning

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university with emphasis in computers or related area, with five to seven years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the discipline.

PROGRAM ANALYST SR.
Personnel in this job title may be covered by NERC CIP cyber security standards. If the position is covered, prior to being hired, promoted, or transferred into the position, the candidate must successfully pass a Personnel Risk Assessment, which includes identity verification and a criminal background check. Prior to being granted unescorted access to cyber secure areas, the candidate must attend cyber security training. Annual cyber security training is also required.

SUMMARY
Under general supervision, analyzes requirements and develops computer programs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Plans for all phases of the project life cycle

Develops and maintains project plans outlining plan design, programming and testing timetables, status reports, and cost/benefit analysis

Acts as the project technical manager; coordinates team activities; assigns and reviews tasks, insures compliance with technical standards; budgets and schedules; tracks reports and corrects deviations

Recommends resource allocations and project staffing, new information systems standards and development guidelines

Prepares project manuals, improvement authorizations, work orders, and project budgets

Evaluates and recommends software packages for acquisitions based on client needs and functional requirements

Defines program and system requirements, operating constraints, file structures, data control procedures and system test criteria

Performs and documents vendor application software evaluations for efficiency, standards, maintainability, hardware compatibility, enhancements, documentation, and cost/benefit analysis

Consults with client to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs

Recommends hardware or software platforms, DBMS, and language

Evaluates application program and system design for compliance with standards and functional requirements

Designs and implements system security

Writes, debugs, compiles, tests and installs program modifications and new programs or modules

Evaluates proposed hardware or software changes

Provides production problem resolution and on call support

Codes job control instructions

Performs high-level business needs analysis

Defines and documents client’s problems or areas for improvement, alternative (EDP and non-EDP) solutions and the most cost beneficial recommendations

Performs client long-range planning, client testing and training, and system implementation

Performs hardware or software platform support for non-mainframe hardware including installation and use of system and application software, database management, monitoring and marinating the system for availability of resources

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university with an emphasis in computers or related area, and five to seven years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the discipline.

To apply go to www.pnm.com/careers and read a full job description, register, upload a resume and answer all posting questions. Deadline is no later than April 26, 2011.

PNM is an EEO/AA employer. Women, minorities, disabled individuals and veterans are encouraged to apply.

We are currently seeking a Business Analyst to join our Policy team. The Business Analyst will support development of modules in Peoplesoft to manage data on teacher appraisal and performance for an initiative with our partner district, Houston Independent School District (HISD) and will be based in the school district office in Houston. This position is available immediately.

HISD’s Teacher Human Capital Management Transformation

HISD employs approximately 12,700 teachers who teach in 296 different schools. In the 2007–2008 school year, HISD launched ASPIRE (Accelerating Student Progress. Increasing Results and Expectations), its educational-improvement and performance-management model. ASPIRE comprises four key components, including Developing Human Capital. Since the launch of ASPIRE, the district has garnered national attention for its use of value-added data to guide instructional decision-making and drive a system of differentiated compensation. The district is now seeking to leverage these reform efforts to maximize its impact on student achievement by reaching these student outcomes.

1. Becoming the first district in the country to eradicate the racial achievement gap
2. Having 100 percent of students reading and doing math on grade level as measured by Stanford 10 in all grades tested
3. Leading the nation in NAEP reading and math scores in grades 4 and 8 among all districts across America
Research underscores the impact a teacher can have on student success and reinforces why HISD must continue to transform is human capital systems by focusing on four key strategies to reach the bold student outcomes outlined above. These strategies are as follows:
• Strengthen recruiting and staffing policies and practices to attract top talent
• Establish a rigorous and fair teacher-appraisal system to inform key decisions
• Provide effective individualized support and professional development for teachers
• Offer meaningful career pathways and differentiated compensation to retain and leverage the most-effective teachers

TNTP will support HISD’s human capital transformation through a five-year initiative to drive the strategic direction of the transformation effort; develop new tools and processes; coordinate and monitor school-level implementation activities; and build stakeholder buy-in for reform.

Role and Responsibilities

The Business Analyst will analyze complex business problems in the area of identifying, evaluating and developing processes, procedures, functional testing, data quality and workflows related to the tracking and reporting of teacher performance data in PeopleSoft. The Business Analyst will work closely with the Design and Implementation teams for HISD’s new teacher appraisal and development system and HISD’s PeopleSoft team to translate the business needs of the new appraisal and development system into efficient and user-friendly tools. Through this work, successful candidates have the opportunity to have a profound impact on the direction of major educational reforms in Houston ISD.

Specific responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Major Responsibilities:
• Map workflows associated with the new teacher appraisal and development systems
• Identify data generated and data required for each step of workflows
• Translate workflow and data maps into technical requirements for modules to be developed in PeopleSoft
• Participate in and provide feedback on the development of modules in PeopleSoft
• Work with the Appraisal and Development Implementation team to test modules and develop training materials
• After the launch of PeopleSoft modules, obtaining and analyzing resultant data to inform the efforts of the Appraisal and Development Implementation team
Other Responsibilities:
• Conducting ad hoc analyses of teacher performance data
• Formatting data reports
• Providing operational support to the Appraisal and Development Implementation team

Qualifications

We are seeking candidates who are motivated by our mission and who will bring excellent analytic, project and client management skills to our district, state and federal-level policy work. Successful candidates will be strong problem-solvers, independent and focused self-starters. The Business Analyst must be driven by a vision of reform that positions schools to support student achievement and must be capable of translating that vision into practical steps. In addition we seek individuals that have the following qualifications:
• At least two years experience in Business Analysis, preferably in PeopleSoft or other SQL applications
• Certifications in PeopleSoft or other SQL applications strongly preferred
• Excellent process analysis and process mapping skills
• The ability to translate complex, dynamic processes into concrete workflows and to identify the data needs associated with each step of a workflow
• Expert skills in Microsoft Excel and Access preferred
• The ability to integrate and analyze data from multiple, disconnected, and complex data sets. This requires ability to review and clean for data integrity, identify and address inconsistencies in data, develop solutions for dealing with non-linking and missing data, and build and run queries to efficiently clean and analyze information across data sources.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to prioritize competing demands in a changing, highly collaborative environment
• The ability to manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously
• Strong follow-through skills and attention to detail, especially under deadline pressure
• The ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced environment
• The ability to work effectively with others at all levels of an organization and to consistently display a high level of professionalism in all interactions
• The ability to identify challenges and actively work to find solutions
• Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity
• Strong interpersonal skills
• A willingness to work non-standard hours and/or occasional weekends

Compensation

The annual salary for this position is $70,000 or commensurate with experience in a similar position. We also offer a motivated team of colleagues, a collegial atmosphere that values professional development, a comprehensive benefits plan effective on the first day of employment – including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, and a 403(b) plan with matching – as well as the opportunity to impact the direction of a growing, mission-driven company that is committed to the success of our nation’s children.

To Apply

Please submit your resume and tailored cover letter online at

http://tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=THENEWTEACHERPROJECT&cws=1&rid=696

We review applications on a rolling basis – so it is to your advantage to apply as soon as possible. We will not consider applications without a cover letter tailored to this position, which can be addressed to the Human Capital Team. The New Teacher Project is committed to fostering and capitalizing on the diversity of our organization. We are an equal opportunity employer and seek individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply to this position.