Job ID: RQ10786 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Ensure 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
Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and ministry funding requests.
Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
Identify 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
Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members so that project objectives and deliverables are met
Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies
Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
Use ministry project management tools for recording and reporting project/program data
Create/update Integrated Project Management Plan (IPP), adjust and update IPP as per change requests
Perform reviews of schedule, variance analysis, adjust leads and lags, and revise schedule
Manage and monitor project progress, critical path activities, and report on slippage
Create overall project status and project progress reports for project executives and stakeholders
Identify and manage issues, review issue status, and produce issue logs
Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed
Review change requests, and prepare change requests report to be reviewed by Change Control Board, and adjust integrated project plan accordingly
Prepare business transformation and adoption plans
Create and provide knowledge transfer documentation as part of the knowledge transfer plan
Establish and participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums
Use 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
Promote 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.
Adopt and adhere to OPS Unified I&IT Project Methodology, OPS/e-Health Ontario Gating process.
Be a demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
Must Have Skills:
7+ years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (Scrum Master certified preferred); managing the backlog, sprint planning, velocity tracking, Agile testing, retrospects, etc.
