Project Manager/Leader Senior

Job Title: Project Manager/Leader Senior

Location: Toronto

Work Model: Hybrid

Duration: 6 months

Extension: 2 Times

Must Haves

• At least 5 years of experience in a senior leadership role that has extensive experience in project/program management in large scale, multiyear, complex technology projects.
• Demonstrated enhanced communication skills that support the translation of technical information to support delivery of executive presentations, briefing notes, and synthesis of key major project and operational issues.
• Demonstrated program management experience leading executive governance cycles, including the development of materials, recommendations, and decision packages for senior executive committees.

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Description

• Ontario's Public Safety Radio Network (PSRN) covers approximately 750,000 km2, serving more than 38,000 front-line and emergency responders.
• GMCB is executing a large PSRN modernization project in collaboration with other ministries and partners.
• Key activities include business analysis, vendor coordination, stakeholder management, training, organizational change management, project governance, radio resources acquisition and deployment.
• Manage, oversee, track, and update large complex projects, including the schedule, risks, and deliverables.
• Provide strategic leadership and advisory services to support PSRN delivery, engagement, risk management, issue resolution, and cross-project coordination.

Skills

• Develop project or detailed plans that identify resource, time, and budgetary needs.
• Managing deliverables and dependencies that cross multiple in-flight projects.
• Interacting directly with project team members and leadership to develop and maintain strong ongoing relationships.
• Develop material to describe the financial management of project as necessary or if needed.
• Developing briefing materials to describe complex network implementation and or transition and migration strategies with cross stream dependencies including vendor activities.
• In-depth knowledge of, and direct proven experience applying all phases (concept, definition, planning, implementation, and closeout) of advanced project management concepts.

Program Management Skills

• Experience developing/reviewing and maintaining project management artefacts/project collaterals, such as, meeting minutes, project plans, briefing notes, change requests.

Experience in a large public sector entity

• At least 5 years of experience as a senior leader in project/program management in a government role.
• Strategic orientation: able to develop multi-year strategies and operational plans while building relationships within the team and with key stakeholders.

Analytical and Problem Solving

• Ability to proactively identify risks, issues, or problems, gather relevant information, perform analysis, develop options and recommendations in a technology delivery environment.

Deliverables

• 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation on SharePoint site, throughout the duration of the project life cycle.

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

Communication and Relationship Management 35 points

• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal. Able to succinctly articulate key project information in a politically astute manner to executive decision makers.
• A leader with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks, engage junior staff, monitor progress, provide guidance and communicate milestones.
• Able to build relationships with senior project partners, establish trust, and establish a common/ shared goal through effective facilitation, consultation, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience developing and presenting briefing notes, status reports, communications, team & executive presentations. Attention to detail and quality.
• Direct experience in presenting/working with executive offices that demonstrate business acumen and discretion.
• Provide strategic advice on navigating complex, sensitive, and high-profile issues with political acuity, diplomacy, and sound judgment.
• Communicates complex information clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, including senior decision-makers.
• Demonstrated experience synthesizing complex technical, operational, financial, and stakeholder information into concise executive briefing materials and strategic recommendations.

Program Management Skills 25 points

• Demonstrated experience providing strategic advice, options analysis, and recommendations to senior executives responsible for large-scale, high-profile programs.
• Proven ability to manage a demanding workload with senior government officials.
• Ability to apply and interpret business rules and concepts in daily work.
• Experience leading strategic planning involving multiple projects and working across teams to achieve project goals or resolve current operational issues.
• Demonstrated senior experience leading governance committee meeting material development, meetings, preparing and distributing/ presenting project updates, progress reports, risk mitigations, recommendations, etc. to project stakeholders.
• Ability to integrate vendor commitments into overall project reporting and report where contractual obligations are met.
• Experience managing complex interdependencies related to key contract deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks, providing options analysis, and recommending action plans to mitigate the risks.
• Experience developing/reviewing and maintaining project management artefacts/project collaterals, such as, meeting minutes, project plans, briefing notes, change requests with a view of business acuity.
• Experience leading/directing with both the business users and technology / infrastructure teams.
• Excellent planning and time management skills with a focus on attention to detail.

Experience in a large public sector entity 20 points

• Senior leadership experience working on related large and complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience of leading and delivery complex projects which includes multiple stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience both in strategic and operational public sector governance models, experience managing complex, multi-unit, multi-stakeholder, and multiple levels of public sector executive stakeholder project team.
• Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships in a public safety environment.
• Demonstrated experience providing strategic advice and recommendations to senior executives, governance committees, or public-sector decision-makers.

Analytical and Problem Solving 20 points

• Ability to proactively identify risks, issues, or problems, gather relevant information, perform analysis, develop options and recommendations in a technology delivery environment; and build reports to support decision-making on project scope, schedule, cost.
• Accurately document issues, gaps, and inconsistencies when they happen and develop strategies/ mitigations/ lessons learned.
• Utilize judgement to explore cross team/ project opportunities for improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize large volumes of technical, operational, financial, and stakeholder information into concise analysis that supports executive decision-making.

Knowledge Transfer

• All completed, or in progress, deliverables, artefacts/ documents.
• Processes used for Developing deliverables.
• All analysis, stakeholder management tools (RACI), and supporting information.
• Project Manager / Team members.
• 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation on SharePoint site, throughout the duration of the project life cycle etc.