HM Note: This contract role is hybrid and candidates can work remotely. Candidates must reside in Ontario Canada. Candidates resume must include first and last name and must be five 5 pages or less
Description
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 on-boards 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 inter-personal conflicts negotiates changes to resourcing ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- 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 multi-stakeholders 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 close-out.
- 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:
- Experience leading projects involving and nbsp;Esri-based geospatial solutions ArcGIS Portal ArcGIS Online ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Image Server and nbsp;GIS infrastructure middleware maintenance services applications databases monitoring and tools.
- Experience leading projects involving and nbsp;integrated networking technologies Microsoft Azure Oracle Spatial MS Fabric midrange server enterprise storage and personal computer system technologies.
- 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 Management Experience - 45 Points
- Formal Project Management training
- Experience leading large technically complex projects
- Experience identifying issues risks setting out project timelines tracking managing and reporting progress
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary projects with IT groups industry and business clients
Communication Experience - 30 Points
- Experience resolving conflict
- Experience communicating technical concepts to lay audiences
- Experience negotiating project direction to achieve consensus
- Experience coordinating Business Analysts and stakeholder engagement
Technical Experience - 20 Points
- Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects e.g. and nbsp;ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
- Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
- Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure
IT Public Sector Experience - 5 Points
- Experience leading projects in the Land and Resources I and amp;IT Cluster (LRC)
- Experience overseeing Digital First Assessments Cyber Security Architecture reviews and other corporate reviews from within the Ontario Government
- Experience coordinating the design and implementation of new IT solutions within the Ontario Government.
Must Haves:
- Experience leading projects involving and nbsp;Esri-based geospatial solutions ArcGIS Portal ArcGIS Online ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Image Server and nbsp;GIS infrastructure middleware maintenance services applications databases monitoring and tools.
- Experience leading projects involving and nbsp;integrated networking technologies Microsoft Azure Oracle Spatial MS Fabric midrange server enterprise storage and personal computer system technologies.