Digital Project Manager - Project WorkReady

UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care. UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine, and rehabilitation medicine. UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

UHN’s vision is to build A Healthier World and it’s only because of the talented and dedicated people who work here that we are continually bringing that vision closer to reality.

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Union: Non-union
Number of vacancies: 1
New or Replacement Position: New
Site: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Department: Digital PMO
Reports to: Change Lead
Salary Range: $50.63 - $75.95 per hour
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Status: Temporary Full-Time
Closing Date: July 22, 2026

Position Summary

The Digital Project Management Office (PMO) team plans and implements key strategic Digital programs and projects to deliver outcomes benefiting UHN and the health system. We apply best practices for managing projects, change, and risk to ensure high quality deliverables, effective coordination of resources, and transparent progress reporting. Members of the PMO work in close partnership with a broad range of stakeholders, bringing the right teams together to streamline the demand, end-to-end delivery, and operational services in order to mobilize change and achieve value. An exciting opportunity is available to showcase your talents as a Project Manager within UHN Digital where you will part of the Project WorkReady team. Project WorkReady is a a key strategic initiative at UHN, replacing legacy HRIS solution in addition bringing cutting edge enterprise wide scheduling solutions at UHN.  

Duties

• Apply rigorous project management, change management, and effective communication across the project lifecycle to manage schedules and milestones using appropriate tools, anticipating and troubleshooting issues to minimize the hospital’s exposure to risk
• Manage project documentation following project management best practices
• Deliver progress reports, requirements documentation, test strategies, test plans, and presentations to project stakeholders, sponsors, and executive-level leaders
• Develop, coordinate, and oversee testing activities across all phases including unit, integration, system, user acceptance testing (UAT), regression, and end-to-end (E2E) testing
• Manage the individual build of test cases and the combination of test scripts for E2E testing, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements
• Coordinate test environments across Development, SIT, UAT, and Production, ensuring environment readiness, stability, middleware/platform compatibility, and successful deployment execution
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to validate data flows, system integrations, and interactions between multiple applications and platforms
• Facilitate and support defect lifecycle management activities, including defect tracking, prioritization, root cause analysis, and defect triage calls with developers, testers, vendors, and stakeholders
• Apply quality assurance methodologies and best practices, including Agile testing and Waterfall QA approaches, to ensure solution quality and successful project delivery
• Coordinate deployments, release planning, production cutovers, and rollback strategies to minimize operational disruption and ensure business continuity
• Support production cutover activities and post-implementation stabilization efforts
• Drive business insight and demonstrate benefits of implemented initiatives to the organization by applying sound data analysis, data quality, data reporting, and visualization
• Coach, mentor, and manage project teams while fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across project and testing lifecycles

• Minimum 5 years project management experience or equivalent required
• Undergraduate Degree required in Health Informatics or Administration, Technology, Science, Business, or related field required. Masters degree an asset
• Technical skills to drive integration discussions with the project implementation leads
• Strong organizational skills and ability to interact with various stakeholders
• Excellent communication and customer service skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams
• Strong analytical, prioritization and organization skills, with attention to detail
• Flexibility to work effectively in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Experience in formal procurement processes, contract negotiations, and vendor management preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation or equivalent required
• Familiarity with healthcare information systems, interfaces, HL7, ITIL, and/or enterprise architecture an asset
• Experience with referral workflows/systems and provincial projects an asset
• Other certification (Lean/Six-Sigma Black Belt, ITIL, IIBA, Change Management) an asset

Why join UHN?
In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.

• Competitive offer packages
• Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP https://hoopp.com/)
• Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
• A flexible work environment
• Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
• Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.

All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.

UHN uses email to communicate with selected candidates.  Please ensure you check your email regularly. At University Health Network (UHN), artificial intelligence technologies may be used to assist in the screening, assessment, and selection of candidates for this position.

Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.

UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.