Project Manager 6849-1211

HM Note: This hybrid role is three (3) days in office and commences April 2 2024

Responsibilities:

Provides project management on large scale complex high profile and high risk projects for OPS I and amp;IT initiatives.

Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time scope and budget with a focus on costeffectiveness 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 and amp;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

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 multistakeholders 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 closeout.

Promotes OPS I and amp;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 and amp;IT resources.

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

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

The Level 3 Project Manager will also be required to:

1. Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines;
2. Notify the Cluster/Ministry Senior Manager in writing of any issues or other material concerns related to the Assignment Deliverables as soon as the he/she becomes aware of them;
3. Submit Deliverables for the Cluster/Ministry approval as they are completed;
4. Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry security procedures and practices;
5. Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry architecture/technology standards and best practices;
6. Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Guidelines;
7. Provide knowledge and skill transfer to a designated Cluster/Ministry staff; and
8. Comply with the Ontario Government I and amp;IT Directive Operational Policy on the I and amp;IT Project Gateway Process and other applicable Guidelines Standards and Procedures.

Other Experience and Skills:

1. Based on the scope the senior Project Manager must have 10 years of the following skills and experience:

Demonstrated experience in performing gap fit analysis and impact analysis;

Experience in documenting business processes business requirements and system requirements;

Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure business requirements are properly reflected in the system design and technical specifications;

Demonstrated experience in the analysis and planning for the modernization of large complex multiplatform multitier information technology systems;

Experience supporting business users working on projects or programs involving multiple highly interdependent applications and/or data sources;

Proven ability to lead business users to the successful completion of an assignment of this nature magnitude and complexity and demonstrated ability to help them achieve the desired business benefits on schedule and within budget;

Experience working on projects within a multiclient/partner environment;

Excellent analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills;

A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple projects with competing priorities and strict deadlines; and

Experience in dealing with system solutions related to funding calculations financial information management and webbased ntier technology implementation. and nbsp;

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Core Skills 50%

• Experience with business stakeholder management and status reporting at internal Manager Director and Executive levels
• Experience producing and maintaining Project Planning and Coordination documentations (Business Case RAID log Processes Charter Integrated Project Plan Migration plans Schedules project kick off materials roadmaps etc.)
• Demonstrated experience working with IAM tools such as Microsoft Entra ID or Oracle IAM
• Demonstrated experience with IT migration projects such as cloud migration and IAM modernization
• Experience in the development of various deliverables of various roles including but not limited to project coordinator release management requirements analyst system designer system tester trainer etc. throughout SDLC.
• Experience defining KPIs and supporting design of required reports to measure the business performance
• Experience working on projects within a multiclient/partner environment.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating the resolution of I and amp;IT and Business issues.
• Demonstrated experience assessing applications for AODA compliance or other accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.0
• Demonstrated technical experience in data collection application projects business intelligence projects database management projects and projects/applications involving data flow data warehousing data management
• Experience supporting the analysis of existing business processes design and recommend process improvements to effectively harness the benefits of using the application(s)

Release Management / Coordination Skills 40%

• Experience conducting release readiness reviews milestone reviews and business go/nogo reviews
• Experience maintaining the release schedule for assigned products and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
• Demonstrated experience coordinating crossfunctional work teams toward task completion
• The following is an asset: Experience participating in discussions with Infrastructure Technology Services (ITS) Corporate Security Branch (CSB) Centre of Excellence for Accessibility and Information Privacy and Achieves (IPA) Office to ensure the application remains compliant with all applicable GOITS standards
• Experience managing risks and resolving issues that impact release scope schedule and quality.
• Experience measuring and monitoring progress to ensure releases are delivered on time and within budget and that they meet or exceed expectations
• Demonstrated experience with requirement management quality assurance and change management
• Demonstrated planning and executing detailed release strategies for upgrade projects (for example IAM upgrades) across multiple applications using shared infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to deep dive into technical issues that may arise between solutions development and application operations during a release cycle Demonstrated experience developing and reporting Key Performance Indicators regarding releases application performance etc.
• Experience planning the release windows and cycles across assigned products
• Experience maintaining the release schedule for assigned products and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
• Experience with managing large scale onboarding process for all users (internal and amp; external)
• Experience supporting business users working on projects or programs involving multiple highly interdependent applications and/or data sources.

Communication Skills 5%

• Experience providing clarification to designers developers and testers at various stages of SDLC to ensure that any changes or enhancements are fully regression tested and validated;
• Experience liaising with IT specialists and unit leads and work closely with support team members and relevant stakeholders
• Excellent analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure business requirements are properly reflected in the system design and technical specifications
• Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure project documentation is complete and accurate.
• Experience managing relationships and coordinating work between different teams at different locations
• Experience mentoring and coaching junior staff

Public Sector Experience 5%

• Experience working within the Public Sector particularly with education ministries would be an asset
• Experience working with ITS and knowledge of the Public Sector ITS standards would be an asset

Must Haves:

1. Demonstrated experience working with IAM tools such as Microsoft Entra ID or Oracle IAM
2. Demonstrated experience with IT migration projects such as cloud migration and IAM modernization