HM Note: This contract role is remote and candidates can work with onsite required for occasional meetings. Candidates must reside in Ontario Canada. Candidates resume must include first and last name.
Description
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:
- 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.
- Process coordination and optimization.
- Client relationship management with a particular focus on Govt/NGO/NPO risk advisory and consulting environments.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- 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.
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge and understanding of Project Managements Institutes Project Management Body of Knowledge
- and nbsp;Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
- and nbsp;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
- and nbsp;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
- and nbsp;Ability to manage multiple streams of work
- Operate in a fastpaced project with many of external dependencies
- and nbsp;Ability to pivot as required while prioritizing/triaging tasks and the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
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Must Haves:
and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp;5 years IT Project Manager experience leading projects
and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp;5 years experience writing project documentation
and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp;5 years experience in process optimization
Public Sector Experience: and nbsp;Broader Public Sector required