RQ07134 - Project ManagerLeader - Senior

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 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&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 interpersonal 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 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&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:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management s Institute s 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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must haves:

• Experience setting up the agile environment your team needs to build and iterate on a usercentred service
  
• Experience with planning and facilitating product and extended team s work through collaborative and interactive work sessions
  
• Experience with user centred design practices and processes
  
• Experience with an iterative approach to product development and testin
  
• Experience building strong relationships across organizations
  

Nice to have:

• OPS exp
  

Skill Set / Experience Required:

Agile project management:

• Experience setting up the agile environment your team needs to build and iterate on a usercentred service
  
• Experience leading and coordinating the team including daily standups sprints planning and backlog grooming
  
• Experience with user centred design practices and processes
  
• Experience with an iterative approach to product development and testing
  
• Experience with agile engineering methods and a broad range of internet technologies such as common internet protocols web analytics semantic markup REST and other foundational web topologies that underpin modern digital applications
  

Collaboration and facilitation:

• Experience with planning and facilitating product and extended team s work through collaborative and interactive work sessions
  
• Experience managing the agile process for a multidisciplinary teams that include a product manager software developers user researchers designers dev/ops content creators and other subject matter experts
  
• Experience helping your product teams become better at autonomously organizing their own work
  

Communications and relationships:

• Outstanding interpersonal skills and experience navigating complex issues and stakeholders.
  
• Experience building strong relationships across organizations
  
• Experience creating and presenting information for different audiences
  
• Experience communicating timelines and progress to audiences with different levels of experience with agile practices
  
• Experience flagging an removing obstacles or blockers to progress