Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Job Title: Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Location: Kingston or Toronto

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: 8 months

Extension: 1 Time

Must Haves

• Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects
• Ability to prioritize workload, demonstrate critical thinking, identify problems, develop and implement solutions
• Experience managing a project following an Iterative project delivery methodology

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Description

• One Sr Project Manager/Leader is required to enhance SADIE EMR functionality through the addition of delegate and designate functionality.
• This project will also add electronic medical record functionality to Health Information System (HIS).
• A collaborative effort between Ontario Health, the Ministry of Health, and OntarioMD, aims to optimize administrative processes for prescribers across the province.

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.
• 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.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.

General Skills

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Provides project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change during all stages of projects.

Technical Skills

• Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring Boot and Quarkus, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, HAPI FHIR, Node.js, YAML, ELK Stack.

Deliverables

• Superior verbal and written communication skills to effectively inform executive decision-making and report status to corporate governance bodies.

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

Project Management Skills 40

• Demonstrated experience in developing executive-level briefings, presentations and status reporting
• Significant experience in coordinating a large team and ensuring knowledge is shared amongst team members
• Extensive complex project management and delivery experience with both IT and business aspects/attributes
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Demonstrated project issue and risk management experience for high-risk, high-profile and complex projects
• Demonstrated experience directing project development teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards

Technical Skills 30

• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management policies and practices
• Experience in identifying barriers and required success factors for effective integration or collaboration
• Knowledge of standards for health care data exchange, in particular Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and SmileCDR
• Knowledge of and experience integrating solutions with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Hospital Information Systems (HIS)
• Experience working with containers and container orchestration tools such as RedHat Openshift or Kubernetes
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with the following languages/frameworks: Java frameworks such as Spring Boot and Quarkus, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, HAPI FHIR, Node.js, YAML, ELK Stack

Communication Skills 20

• Superior verbal and written communication skills to effectively inform executive decision-making and to report status to corporate governance bodies including group facilitation skills, experience in preparing reports, proposals, briefing materials, presentations, and other communications
• Strong consulting skills to engage with stakeholders
• Strong customer service orientation to ensure needs of clients are effectively met
• Demonstrated team player with excellent multi-tasking abilities and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines

Healthcare Experience 10

• Demonstrated experience in a healthcare or clinical context
• Demonstrated experience supporting stakeholder engagement activities, particularly in a healthcare context
• Demonstrated experience with the privacy and security requirements of software development in a healthcare or clinical context.