RQ11708 Project ManagerLeader Public Sector I 1+ year I Toronto

Organization: Central Agencies

Ministry: Ministry of Treasury Board Secretariat

Location: Toronto ON - Onsite

Title: Project Manager/Leader

Description

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Project Planning and Management - 30%

• Develops/manages project schedules deliverables and scope.
• Provides management/leadership to project teams external service providers/vendors through all phases of projects; plans coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.
• Manages and coordinates project monitoring anticipates and troubleshoots issues provides ongoing expertise resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.
• Promotes I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
• Manages coordinates supports and/or assists in the planning development preparation of planning documents and submissions including MB20s or RBP products related to I&IT projects or with an I&IT component; monitors and forecasts project costs and provides reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
• Works with project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and meet government and ministry standards.
• Provides assistance in planning development production and approval of Terms of Reference and Project Charter processes documents and deliverables.
• Coordinates and monitors project processes and develops/communicates guidelines and procedures.
• Identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas; develops responses for review.

Stakeholder Engagement & Governance 25%

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across Business I&IT Finance Procurement Privacy/Security and Legal.
• Familiarity with UPM Enterprise Architecture and Gating processes.
• Excellent communication and executive-level presentation skills.

IT Solutions Development - 30%

• Manages controls and coordinates all project-related systems and procedures including technology infrastructure change transition and implementation.
• Makes recommendations on the acquisition of software hardware technology resources.

General Skills - 10%

• Leads organizational development strategy development business planning and Ministry funding requests.
• 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 onboards 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.
• 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.

Desirable Skills - 5%

• 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.

MUST HAVES:

• Managed Oracle Service Cloud Platform or any other similar products
• Provides management/leadership to project teams external service providers/vendors through all phases of projects; plans coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.
• Manages and coordinates project monitoring anticipates and troubleshoots issues provides ongoing expertise resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.
• Proven Experience in I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies. (Agile Kanban etc)