RQ10041 Program Manager Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provide program management leadership and expertise of large scale highly complex high profile and high-risk initiatives that may be multi-jurisdictional and/or enterprise-wide.
  
• Ensure accountability for the programs centralized group of projects and their successful full life cycle delivery.
  
• Ensure programs are delivered cost effectively and efficiently and in compliance with organizations methodologies standards and frameworks.
  

General Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out and any required transition to operations business planning benefits identification and organization funding requests for I&IT programs.
  
• Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating I&IT executive expectations and translating into program deliverables
  
• Experience directing managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams including multiple Project Managers each responsible for an element of the project and associated matrix team members
  
• Experience monitoring and managing the cost risk schedule governance technical performance and program impact of each of the component projects
  
• Experience providing a program/portfolio view of project inter-dependencies and external project dependencies monitoring and reporting on exposure levels
  
• Exercises a range of leadership responsibilities including the role of coach and developer of talent
  
• Experience developing complex budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross organization dependencies.
  
• Experience analyzing program and organizations environments to identify potential risks and issues; articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to senior executives; recommends mitigation strategies to decision-makers to ensure projects are delivered on schedule
  
• Uses significant innovation in the planning analysis and execution of tasks Experience directing stakeholder consultation facilitation and consensus building.
  
• Provides program portfolio and/or project reporting to multiple stakeholders
  
• Experience leading strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change
  
• Experience seeking new and unique business processes technologies and products to benefit programs portfolios and projects
  
• Experience supervising the development and communication of program related updates including through media relations social media etc.
  
• Experience building positive relationships within the team and external parties
  
• Experience contributing to improvements in life cycle based on lessons learned and past experience Adheres to organizations standards and best practices for program
  
• Experience scheduling and organizing meetings/events and maintaining agenda
  
• Ensures technology is used correctly for all operations (video conferencing presentations etc.).
  

Desirable Skills:

• Expert knowledge of PMLC Excellent communication & collaboration skills
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• PMP certified 10 years of overall IT project management experience
  
• Project program and portfolio management business transformation and process improvement experience on large complex enterprise systems and products (including COTS and cloud-based solutions etc.) experience with multi-ministry governance
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Leadership & Project Management:

• PMP certified 10 years of overall IT project management experience
  
• Project program and portfolio management business transformation and process improvement experience on large complex enterprise systems and products (including COTS and cloud-based solutions etc.) experience with multi-ministry governance.
  
• Ability to create and maintain a product road map and product backlogs provide senior technical expertise project leadership and coordination of activities in the development implementation and maintenance of large scale IT projects
  
• Ability to create and closely manage detailed integrated project plans and have demonstrated experience with both waterfall and agile methodologies.
  
• Possess in-depth knowledge of project program and portfolio management methodologies with the capability to apply best practices knowledge to unique and dynamic situations.
  
• In-depth knowledge of IT risk management concepts and best practices to identify and assess business and technology risks and issues assess risks at a detailed level and develop strategic plans approaches and recommendations to mitigate
  
• Ability to think holistically and horizontally about business problems and opportunities and ensure strategic alignment between cross-functional programs/activities.
  
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills with the ability to coordinate many tasks simultaneously without losing focus on the priority and work on multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment and with aggressive timelines.
  

Relationship Management and Communication:

• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills to lead consultations resolve issues and obtain buy-in from wide and diversified working groups/stakeholders
  
• Ability to manage business stakeholders expectations and understand business processes and requirements to ensure project scope business and technical requirements are clear and agreed on by each stakeholder
  
• Ability to foster strong senior leadership and executive relationships through broad business and IT governance tables.
  
• Ability to produce presentations dashboards briefing papers and submissions business cases and status reports for different types of audiences.
  
• Vendor Management experience and skills ability to build relationships regular check-ins and manage expected deliverable timelines to documented SOW
  
• Exceptional verbal written and presentation skills
  

Other Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• Business transformation/change management knowledge and expertise related to implementing new IT systems and business processes with broad implications.
  
• Practical experience supporting strategic IT investment planning decisions including supporting business case development for new system implementations/enhancements technical debt reduction initiatives etc.
  
• Strong experience with a wide range of IT systems and technologies with broad understanding of business processes/functions technical architectures components integration capabilities deployment environments and roadmaps.
  
• Knowledge of IT industry best practices and trends impacting digital service delivery organizations including emerging technologies