Project ManagerLeader

Assignment: RQ00113 Project Manager/Leader Senior

Job Title: Project Manager/Leader

Requisition: RQ00113

Start Date:

End Date:

Department: Corporate Communications & Strategy Management Bureau

Office Location: 777 Memorial Ave

Business Days: 251.00

Candidate must go to the office when required.

Must haves:

• Database experience
• At least 10 years of experience as a project manager

Strong nice to haves:

• Policing experience
• Government experience
• Law enforcement

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 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 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

Deliverables

Business Case Project Planning and Procurement Experience 35%

• Experience preparing complex business cases.
• Experience with project scoping to confirm operational/business requirements.
• Experience developing project plans.
• Experience preparing projectrelated briefing notes/decision notes.
• Experience with public sector funding submissions/procurements.

Technology Project Management Experience 35%

• Experience gathering technical requirements for multifaceted technology/data projects.
• Experience managing largescale complex integrated project plans and implementation plans.
• Excellent analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills.
• Experience managing competing priorities scope and project timelines.
• Experience at a senior level in order to guide a multifaceted project during its initial phases.

Relationship Management 30%

• Experience managing executive relationships and reporting to senior management.
• Experience building relationships with stakeholders and managing competing priorities.
• Experience with public sector governance processes and requirements.
• Leadership skills to align activities across several project streams and organizations.
• Leadership to manage and resolve issues working in collaboration with team members.