Project Manager Intermediate

Must Haves:

• Strong stakeholder management planning and resource management skills
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities organize inputs from multiple stakeholders and maintain high-quality documentation.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational and time management skills and the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and competing deadlines.
• Collaboration coordinating tasks and ensuring that everybody works together effectively this also involves conflict resolution
• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out
• Demonstrated ability to develop successful relationship and build agreement with high-level internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating executive expectations and translating into program deliverables

Description

• The Project Manager will provide project management on large scale complex high profile and high risk projects for the Agency. The Project Manager will keep timelines moving follow up on issues and dependencies bring the right people together when needed and help make sure work is progressing as expected.

Responsibilities:

Project Manager responsibilities:

• Work with different partners and subject matter experts from different organizational units (clinical business enterprise and technical).
• Gain understanding of stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Develop and implement change management strategies and associated communications.
• Develop charters to guide the work.
• Prepare summaries for leadership including status risks cadence upcoming touchpoints.
• Develop professional consistent communication artifacts including:
• project updates
• change notices
• engagement summaries
• meeting minutes & action logs.
• Support preparation of materials for governance leadership updates workshops and consultations.
• Establish and maintain excellent working relationships and effective communication with the sponsor(s) internal and external partners and project team members.
• Organize and lead project meetings.
• Ensure effective project change control.
• Track action items and ensure timely follow-up.
• Proactively identify and manage risks and systematically resolve or escalate known issues in order that a clear output can be identified and achieved.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with managing projects in Ontarios healthcare sector.
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Required Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of the Project Management Institutes framework
• Proficient in MS Office
• Experience working alongside project and program managers in a highly complex environment with internal and external stakeholders vendors and partners; while providing updates escalating where required identifying risks and managing project document deliverables.
• Experience collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintain progress reporting action items risk management updates etc.
• Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs.

Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria: 100 Points

Project Management skills 30 Points

• Strong working knowledge of the Project Management Institutes framework
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal clients and external partners clients and vendors
• Acumen to resolve conflicts at all levels with tact
• Well-developed analytical skills with a keen eye for details

Communication Skills 30 Points

• Strong written and oral communications skills
• Reporting skills

Work Experience 30 Points

• Demonstrated experience with managing projects for initiatives with multiple partners and stakeholders

Sector Experience 10 Points

• Experience working in the health sector or public sector organizations

Deliverables

• Deliverables Include (Deliverables resource is responsible for):
• Project Manager deliverables: project plans timeline tracking issue logs status updates coordination records and documentation.

Additional Terms

• The term of this Engagement Assignment is for 250 Business Days with an option to extend for up to an additional 250 days at the Agencys discretion. The Engagement Assignment may be extended for unused Business Days at the Agencys discretion.
• The resource will comply with the Agencys policies and procedures.
• The Agency systems cannot be accessed from outside the province of Ontario and Agency assets including laptops and related equipment cannot be removed from the province of Ontario without prior written approval from the Agency.
• Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as Hybrid. The resource under this request will be required to work onsite as per Hiring Manager sole discretion.