Project Manager/Leader - Toronto, ON (5 Days Onsite)

Title: Project Manager/Leader

Location: Toronto, ON (5 Days Onsite)

Duration: 6+ Months

Description:

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.

• 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.

• 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.

Skills:

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Project Planning and Management:

• Develops/manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.

• Provides management/leadership to project teams, external service providers/vendors through all phases of projects; plans, coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.

• Manages and coordinates project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.

• Promotes I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.

• Manages, coordinates, supports and/or assists in the planning, development, preparation of planning documents and submissions, including MB20's or RBP products related to I&IT projects or with an I&IT component; monitors and forecasts project costs and provides reporting and input to ensure targets are met.

• Works with project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and meet government and ministry standards.

• Provides assistance in planning, development, production and approval of Terms of Reference and Project Charter processes, documents and deliverables.

• Coordinates and monitors project processes, and develops/communicates guidelines and procedures.

• Identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas; develops responses for review.

Stakeholder Engagement & Governance:

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across Business, I&IT, Finance, Procurement, Privacy/Security, and Legal.

• Familiarity with UPM, Enterprise Architecture, and Gating processes.

• Excellent communication and executive-level presentation skills.

IT Solutions Development:

• Manages, controls, and coordinates all project-related systems and procedures, including technology infrastructure change, transition and implementation.

• Makes recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, technology resources.

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.

• 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 onboards 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.

• 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 Management's Institute's 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:

• Managed Oracle Service Cloud Platform or any other similar products

• Provides management/leadership to project teams, external service providers/vendors through all phases of projects; plans, coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.

• Manages and coordinates project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.

• Proven Experience in I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies. (Agile, Kanban etc)