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Job DescriptionCompany: SystemCanada | www.systemcanada.com
World wide office: Canada - USA - Australia - UK - South Africa - New Zealand - Ireland - Japan
Job Description
Responsibilities:
The Project Manager will lead project teams, including multiple vendor teams, and assume day-to-day project co-ordination, planning, management and control responsibilities, in both business and IT environments. The Project Manager will work closely with the Senior Manager, Project Program Manager and other Project Managers to ensure that activities are carefully integrated and managed across the Program.
The Project Manager will be accountable for ensuring the successful completion of all remaining phases of the Project (execution, monitoring and control). The Project Manager will have input to the selection of appropriate approaches, methodologies, techniques and tools in implementing a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) solution and will use them once they have been approved.
The Project Manager will be responsible for creating and updating the detailed stream project plans and stream schedules (including specific project scope, time, cost, quality, risk, and communications considerations). The project plan will consist of both a schedule, using the approved project management toolset, and a supporting document which will document plan assumptions, constraints, issues and risks.
The Project Manager will work with the Project Program Manager to integrate the project stream schedules into the Integrated Project Schedule, and once approved, will execute according to the project plan and baseline. The Project Manager will initiate discussions with the Project Program Manager to resolve any issue that could impact the Program Integrated Plan.
The Project Manager will also be responsible for identifying and managing risks, issues and changes, using the approved management plans and approaches, as well as managing client expectations as needed. The Project Manager will also be required to provide the Project Program Manager and Project Executives with regular status and progress reports and will assume responsibility for Project scheduling and monitoring.
Deliverables:
Maintain current, baseline Project Plans and Schedules for the assigned scope, aligned with the Integrated Project Schedule and including resource assignments (External Vendors and Ministry), and internal and external dependencies. Plans and Schedules will be based on existing planning documents and approved Change Requests.
Weekly updates to the Project Schedules including % complete for all tasks.
Weekly Status Reports identifying the status of current and upcoming activities, as well as risks, issues and changes.
Ongoing tracking and updates to project action, issue, risk and decision logs to support weekly meetings and status reporting processes.
Hold regular project status meetings and participate in/support program status meetings.
Facilitate and document outcomes from workshops and other meetings as required to meet project objectives.
Contribute to Lessons Learned exercises to be held across the project after major milestones have been reached.
Coordinate and/or attend project meetings to ensure project plan is being considered in decision- making.
The Vendor’s Personnel will also be required to:
Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines; Notify the Cluster/Ministry project Manager in writing of any issues or other material concerns related
to the assignment deliverables, as soon as the he/she becomes aware of them; Submit deliverables for the Cluster/Ministry approval as they are completed; Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry security procedures and practices; Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry architecture/technology standards and
best practices; Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality
Guidelines; Provide knowledge and skill transfer to a designated Cluster/Ministry staff; and Comply with the
Ontario Government I&IT Directive, Operational Policy on the I&IT Project Gateway Process, and other applicable Guidelines, Standards and Procedures
Methodologies – The Vendor should identify any methodologies that it proposes to use in the course of conducting the work. The Client will expect the vendor/candidate to use:
OPS UPM
PMI PMBOK
Implementation Plan –The Vendor should describe how it plans to perform and complete the requested services (i.e.: actions, responsibilities, time frames, and individuals required to perform and complete the requested services).
QualificationsMUST HAVE:
- MUST have - Minimum 10 years of experience as Project manager
- MUST have - Minimum 1 year of experience on projects involving CURAM V 5.2 and/or V6
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