Program Manager Senior
Program Manager Senior
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Job Description
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Strategic Planning and Management
Ability to think and act strategically. Big picture thinking and solid understanding of program scope management and operations.
Good understanding of the wider objectives and how to ensure strategic alignment of the program to business priorities.
Experience leading organizational development strategy development business and program planning.
In-depth knowledge and experience producing program and project management artifacts and deliverables required to support program strategic objectives.
Ability to work positively with the wide range of individuals and stakeholders involved in program management.
Strong leadership and management skills and experience
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills and experience
Strong presentation and meeting facilitation expertise.
Experience handling difficult situations and managing stakeholder alignment to ensure program success
Ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems and pro-actively manage program issues and risks.
Ability to use appropriate strategies and actions to proactively overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of program projects concept definition planning implementation and close-out.
In-depth knowledge of strategic program budgeting and resource allocation methods and techniques to ensure program success.
40%
Program Management Skills and Experience
5 years proven experience as a Program Manager or other Managerial position:
Experience developing and managing program and project scope schedules and deliverables.
Experience with monitoring and forecasting program and project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
Experience with effective management of program budgets ensuring a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
In-depth knowledge and handling of project and program management methodology and techniques
Ability to promote I&IT program and project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
Experience gathering and developing business and technical requirements to create and maintain a detailed program project schedule and/or integrated plan.
Experience directing program and project teams to ensure program and project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring program and project processes developing/ communicating guidelines and procedures.
Experience with resolution of resourcing and inter-personal conflicts negotiates changes to resourcing ensuring knowledge is shared among team members and program objectives and deliverables are met in a timely manner.
Ability to proactively identify potential program risk events and issues before they occur including identification of appropriate mitigating strategies and plans.
Experience with effective articulation and prioritization of issues and risks to senior executive levels and recommendations of mitigation strategies for decision makers.
Experience with establishment and facilitation of program steering committee and stakeholder forums and meetings.
Experience with providing project program and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
Experience with promoting Public Sector 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.
BSc/BA Diploma in Management or a relevant field.
PMP is an asset.
40%
General Skills
Experience with the coordinated planning management and execution of organizational change initiatives.
Outstanding knowledge of performance evaluation processes.
Experience with procurements managed services and vendor management.
Experience with APIs solution integration and customer experience platforms.
Experience with iterative and agile delivery.
Experience with journey mapping.
Experience with developing and advancing transformational roadmaps.
Experience with managing and delivering end-to-end programs/projects with focus on solution integration platform modernization.
Experience developing and delivering presentations to a wide variety of audiences including executives.
15%
Public Sector Experience
10 years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers.
In-depth knowledge of Public Sector Program/Project Management artifacts (or similar) processes and practices and ability to produce program level documentation that comply with industry standard practices.
In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Program and Project Management Institute (PMI) and Public Sector I&IT project management methodologies.
In-depth knowledge and experience with Public Sector Health related projects
In-depth knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements.
Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process and Public Sector Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
Solid experience with large complex IT Health-related projects and programs
Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
5%
MUST HAVES:
In-depth knowledge and experience producing program and project management artifacts and deliverables required to support program strategic objectives.
Ability to use appropriate strategies and actions to proactively overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of program projects concept definition planning implementation and close-out
Experience with monitoring and forecasting program and project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
Experience with effective articulation and prioritization of issues and risks to senior executive levels and recommendations of mitigation strategies for decision makers.
Experience with procurements managed services and vendor management.
Experience with managing and delivering end-to-end programs/projects with focus on solution integration platform modernization.
In-depth knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements.
Employment Type
Full-time
