Sr. Project ManagerLeader

RQ10855 - Sr. Project Manager/Leader

1-year contract (250 business days) - possible extension

ONSITE 5 days - 40 St Clair Ave

Responsibilities: Provides project management on large scale complex high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&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&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&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.

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

Must-haves:

• 10 years demonstrated hands-on Project Management experience managing large complex application development projects
• 7 years demonstrated experience managing agile/iterative/scrum projects
• 7 years facilitating and leading ceremonies including daily stand-ups sprint reviews planning backlog refinement retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping
• Demonstrated experience using issue management tools such as Jira to manage backlogs and sprints
• Experience creating and managing project schedules project plans issue/risk logs status reports and other project management artefacts
• Experience managing project resources by aligning skills/experience to project tasks
• Experience planning and managing OPS project gating architecture and governance checkpoints/requirements
• 5 years demonstrated experience managing technical resources and tasks involving solution development (design coding configuration) data migration testing platform upgrades/patching maintenance/support integration
  

Nice-to-have: (preferred)

• 3 years of experience with multiple complex Siebel Public Sector project concurrently