RQ11323 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

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 with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
  

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
  
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
  
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
  
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
  
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
  
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
  
• Sources, selects and on-boards 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.
  
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
  
• 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/confirmation of actuals.
  
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
  
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
  
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
  
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
  
• Uses 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.
  
• Promotes 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.
  
• Awareness / knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions
  
• Ability to adapt to changing trends, leverage emerging tools and methodologies, and effectively lead projects to success in today’s dynamic IT landscape
  

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
  
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
  
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
  
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Demonstrated experience in coordinating and planning for the modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multitier information technology systems.
  
• Experience producing Project Planning and Coordination documentation such as but not limited to: Business Case, Processes, Charter, Integrated Project Plan, Migration plans, Schedules, project kick off materials, roadmaps, release management etc. throughout SDLC (Agile and Waterfall)
  
• Experience with business stakeholder management and status reporting at the Executive level
  

Nice to Have: 

• Experience with Planview
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in coordinating and planning for the modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multitier information technology systems.
  
• Experience documenting technical problems/issues and developing plans to address the solutions in a cost-efficient manner
  
• Proven experience facilitating the resolution of I&IT and Business issues using advanced technologies.
  
• Proven experience with JAD facilitation, interpreting business needs to create technical requirements, and leading project meetings
  
• Demonstrated experience with prototyping, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, and Planview
  
• Experience producing Project Planning and Coordination documentation such as but not limited to:  Business Case, Processes, Charter, Integrated Project Plan, Migration plans, Schedules, project kick off materials, roadmaps, release management etc. throughout SDLC (Agile and Waterfall)
  

Project Management and Methodologies:

• Experience leading the planning, coaching, communication and execution of actions that lead toward delivery and adoption of data-driven solutions 
  
• Experience advising, shaping and delivering technology-led transformation programs
  
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders to successfully deliver on transformation goals
  
• Demonstrated experience facilitating discussions with internal and external stakeholders on processes and goals to drive the project delivery to successful completion.
  
• Coordinating and executing Threat Risk Analysis and Privacy Impact Analysis, and addressing outcomes and/or recommendations
  
• Experience with business stakeholder management and status reporting at the Executive level
  
• Experience supporting business users working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources.
  
• Demonstrable experience with requirement management, quality assurance and change management processes and tools
  
• Experience in documenting business, technical and system processes and requirements
  
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple project teams concurrently using a mix of dedicated and shared resources
  
• Ability to introduce best practices, templates, SharePoint management sites for software development projects
  
• Experience with MS Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio.
  
• Experience tracking project finances and burn rates, as well as resource allocation.
  
• Experience with AODA compliance
  

Communications Skills:

• Excellent communication and written skills
  
• Skills in consensus building and issue resolution involving key stakeholders, and members of teams
  
• Experience introducing technical standards business process improvements to development team
  

Public Sector Experience:

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size or complexity to Ontario Public Service