RQ11295 Project ManagerLeader Senior

Duration: 7 Months(170 Business Days) 1 Possible Extension

Location: 5 Days ONSITE at any one of the following locations

(1)49 Place dArmes Kingston or
(2) 222 Jarvis St Toronto Ontario or
(3) 5700 Yonge Street Toronto

Must Have:

• Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large complex multi-stakeholder projects
• Ability to prioritize workload demonstrate critical thinking identify problems develop and implement solutions
• Experience managing a project following an Iterative project delivery methodology

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management on large scale complex high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time scope and budget with a focus on cost-effectiveness efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development strategy development business planning and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Experience developing and managing project schedules deliverables and scope
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• Sources selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts negotiates changes to resourcing ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• Provides project program and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects concept definition planning implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
• Awareness / knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions
• Ability to adapt to changing trends leverage emerging tools and methodologies and effectively lead projects to success in todays dynamic IT landscape

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Managements Institutes Project Management Body of Knowledge
• 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
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software hardware and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring anticipates and troubleshoots issues
• provides ongoing expertise resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations provides updates as required identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $96.65/hr - $115.98/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $77.32/hr - $92.78/hr T4

Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $96.65/hr - $115.98/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $77.32/hr - $92.78/hr T4