Project Manager 9798-0912

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

HM Note: This hybrid contract role is three (3) days in office. Candidate resumes must include first and last name email and telephone contact information.

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 cost-effectiveness 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 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.
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 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:

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

Price (30%)

Business Case and Project Documents (25%)

Experience writing business cases including current state assessments establishing goals outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
Experience creating project charters RACI establishing governance structures
Experience creating project updates drafting and seeking approval on formal change requests and closeout reports
Experience creating work breakdown structures and managing multiple implementation teams
Experience creating process and amp; service measures and indicators
Experience writing business requirements background materials and drafting briefing materials.
Experience completing intake and project initiation activities including creating project charters project outlines and business cases
Experience completing detailed options analyses including feasibility assessments jurisdictional market and literature scans.

Project Planning and Delivery (30%)

Ability to track and report on deliverables across multiple large scale complex projects
Hands on technical experience leading agile teams while providing timely and easy to understand briefings for executives
Experience implementing and running governance structures
Experience with custom builds SaaS adoptions onboardings to enterprise systems
Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring anticipates and troubleshoots issues provides ongoing expertise resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
Experience planning and leading release management activities
Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
Ability to promote I and amp;IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
Ability to Create and track integrated project plans (including scope schedule and resources)
Monitor and report on project progress through stand-ups and weekly status updates
Track project level Risks Issues Actions and Decisions and report it up to the program manager
Create detailed iteration / sprint plans and manage sprint execution from kickoff through retrospective
Experience providing onboarding and orientation of new staff / project resources
Knowledge of the software development life cycle software design development and integration database concepts user interface design principle change management quality assurance risk management disaster recovery planning business continuity planning

Communications (15%)

Strong and nbsp;communication and nbsp;skills and nbsp;to and nbsp;prepare and nbsp;documentation and nbsp;including and nbsp;but and nbsp;not and nbsp;limited and nbsp;to; and nbsp;reports and nbsp;reviews and nbsp;assessments
Ability and nbsp;to and nbsp;present and nbsp;ideas and nbsp;and and nbsp;suggestions and nbsp;clearly and nbsp;and and nbsp;effectively and nbsp;and and nbsp;in and nbsp;a and nbsp;user and nbsp;friendly and nbsp;manner; and nbsp;maintain and nbsp;a and nbsp;high and nbsp;level and nbsp;of and nbsp;customer and nbsp;service and nbsp;to and nbsp;both and nbsp;internal and nbsp;and and nbsp;external and nbsp;clients
Ability and nbsp;to and nbsp;communicate and nbsp;designs and nbsp;and and nbsp;development and nbsp;in and nbsp;clear and nbsp;and and nbsp;understandable and nbsp;manner
Ability to effectively brief senior executives on project status risks complexities dependencies and issues.

Must Have:

Knowledge and understanding of Project Managements Institutes Project Management Body of Knowledge
Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
Experience writing business cases including current state assessments establishing goals outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
Ability to track and report on deliverables across multiple large scale complex projects
Experience with custom builds SaaS adoptions onboardings to enterprise systems

Nice to have:

prior OPS or public sector exp.

HM Note: This hybrid contract role is three (3) days in office. Candidate resumes must include first and last name email and telephone contact information.DescriptionResponsibilities:Provides project management on large scale complex high profile and high risk projects for OPS I and amp;IT initiativ...