Project Manager 7490-1515

HM Note: Candidate is required to work onsite 3 days per week (as required) and 2 days from home within Ontario.

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

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 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

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

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Project and nbsp;Management and nbsp; and nbsp;35%

10 and nbsp;years and nbsp;of and nbsp;Integrated and nbsp;Enterprise and nbsp;project and nbsp;management and nbsp;experience and nbsp;across and nbsp;business and nbsp;and and nbsp;I and amp;IT and nbsp;teams.

Demonstrated and nbsp;experience and nbsp;with and nbsp;managing and nbsp;multiyear and nbsp;multimillion and nbsp;budget and nbsp;projects and nbsp;(must have)

Experience and nbsp;with and nbsp;the and nbsp;management and nbsp;of and nbsp;Stakeholders and nbsp;risks and nbsp;changes and nbsp;issues and nbsp;time and nbsp;scope and nbsp;and and nbsp;resources.

Experience and nbsp;with and nbsp;Microsoft and nbsp;Office and nbsp;tools and nbsp;including and nbsp;Visio and nbsp;Project and nbsp;PowerPoint and nbsp;Word and nbsp;Teams and nbsp;and and nbsp;other and nbsp;tools and nbsp;that and nbsp;support and nbsp;project and nbsp;management and nbsp;collaboration and nbsp;and and nbsp;development and nbsp;of processes and nbsp;and and nbsp;plans and nbsp;(must have)

Experience and nbsp;managing and nbsp;project and nbsp;life and nbsp;cycles and nbsp;including and nbsp;assigning and nbsp;resources and nbsp;and and nbsp;maintaining and nbsp;the and nbsp;project and nbsp;backlogs and nbsp;and and nbsp;inprogress/completed and nbsp;tasks and nbsp;with and nbsp;collaboration and nbsp;tools and nbsp;like: and nbsp;Jira and nbsp;Trello Microsoft and nbsp;Project and nbsp;KanBan and nbsp;Workamajig and nbsp;etc.

Experience and nbsp;in and nbsp;validating and nbsp;financial and nbsp;forecasts and nbsp;cost and nbsp;assumptions and nbsp;and and nbsp;provide and nbsp;ongoing and nbsp;reconciliation and nbsp;of and nbsp;resources and nbsp;and and nbsp;other and nbsp;related and nbsp;project and nbsp;expenditures.

Experience and nbsp;in and nbsp;formulating and nbsp;and and nbsp;determining and nbsp;business and nbsp;and and nbsp;technical and nbsp;requirements and nbsp;business and nbsp;problems and nbsp;business and nbsp;objectives and nbsp;product and nbsp;visions and nbsp;goals and nbsp;and and nbsp;outcomes.

Demonstrated and nbsp;ability and nbsp;to and nbsp;direct and nbsp;collaborate and nbsp;and and nbsp;inform and nbsp;policy and nbsp;IT and nbsp;legal and nbsp;communication and nbsp;and and nbsp;privacy and nbsp;teams.

and nbsp;

Technical and nbsp;Deployment and nbsp;and and nbsp;Project and nbsp;Integration and nbsp;Skills and nbsp; and nbsp;35%

Experience and nbsp;utilizing and nbsp;managing and nbsp;and and nbsp;understanding and nbsp;various and nbsp;software and nbsp;development and nbsp;methodologies and nbsp;including and nbsp;Agile/Scrum and nbsp;and and nbsp;scalable and nbsp;minimum and nbsp;viable and nbsp;products. and nbsp;(must have)

Experience and nbsp;with and nbsp;I and amp;IT and nbsp;technology and nbsp;site and nbsp;deployment/rollout.

Experience and nbsp;leading and nbsp;facilitating and nbsp;and and nbsp;initiating and nbsp;largescale and nbsp;technology and nbsp;infrastructure and nbsp;procurements.

Experience and nbsp;in and nbsp;defining and nbsp;planning and nbsp;orchestrating and nbsp;and and nbsp;delivering and nbsp;the and nbsp;initiative and nbsp;including and nbsp;business and nbsp;operational and nbsp;and and nbsp;information and nbsp;technology and nbsp;deliverables and nbsp;as and nbsp;needed.

Experience and nbsp;with and nbsp;underlying and nbsp;technologies and nbsp;and and nbsp;processes and nbsp;for and nbsp;the and nbsp;delivery and nbsp;of and nbsp;an and nbsp;endtoend and nbsp;electronic and nbsp;solution.

Technical and nbsp;knowledge and nbsp;of and nbsp;Oracle and nbsp;and and nbsp;related and nbsp;deployment and nbsp;environments and nbsp;in and nbsp;order and nbsp;to and nbsp;coordinate and nbsp;and and nbsp;lead and nbsp;activities

Experience and nbsp;in and nbsp;leading and nbsp;QA and nbsp;activities and nbsp;and and nbsp;processes

and nbsp;

Documentation and nbsp;Skills and nbsp; and nbsp;20%

Experience and nbsp;creating and nbsp;privacy and nbsp;financial and nbsp;communication and nbsp;and and nbsp;IT and nbsp;documentation and nbsp;including and nbsp;business and nbsp;cases and nbsp;Privacy and nbsp;Impact and nbsp;Assessments and nbsp;Threat and nbsp;Impact and nbsp;Assessments and nbsp;Requests and nbsp;for Service and nbsp;and and nbsp;Requests and nbsp;for and nbsp;Information. and nbsp;(must have)

and nbsp;

Public and nbsp;Sector and nbsp;Experience and nbsp; and nbsp;10%

Experience and nbsp;with and nbsp;Public and nbsp;Sector and nbsp;ITIL and nbsp;process and nbsp;including and nbsp;incident and nbsp;management and nbsp;release and nbsp;management and nbsp;problem and nbsp;management and nbsp;support and nbsp;models and nbsp;etc.

Experience and nbsp;with and nbsp;OPS and nbsp;business and nbsp;processes and nbsp;gating and nbsp;procedures and nbsp;project and nbsp;management and nbsp;requirements and nbsp;and and nbsp;business and nbsp;rules. and nbsp;(must have)

Knowledge and nbsp;of and nbsp;Government and nbsp;network and nbsp;and and nbsp;desktop and nbsp;infrastructure and nbsp;procurement and nbsp;implementation and nbsp;and and nbsp;support and nbsp;models.