Project Manager/Leader – Intermediate
Pay Rate: Flexible
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Contract Length: 8 Months. Onsite
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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 onboards 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.
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.
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Price – 30%
No details provided
Project Planning and Management – 35%
- Develops/manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Provides management/leadership to project teams, external service providers/vendors through all phases of projects; plans, coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.
- Manages and coordinates project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.
- Proven Experience in I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies. (Agile, Kanban etc)
- Managed Oracle Service Cloud Platform or any other similar products
- Manages, coordinates, supports and/or assists in the planning, development, preparation of planning documents and submissions, including MB20's or RBP products related to I&IT projects or with an I&IT component; monitors and forecasts project costs and provides reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
- Works with project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and meet government and ministry standards.
- Provides assistance in planning, development, production and approval of Terms of Reference and Project Charter processes, documents and deliverables.
- Coordinates and monitors project processes, and develops/communicates guidelines and procedures.
- Identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas; develops responses for review.
- Understands OPS Project Management Methodology (UPM)
IT Solutions Development – 35%
- Manages, controls, and coordinates all project-related systems and procedures, including technology infrastructure change, transition and implementation.
- Makes recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, technology resources.
MUST HAVES:
- Managed Oracle Service Cloud Platform or any other similar products
- Provides management/leadership to project teams, external service providers/vendors through all phases of projects; plans, coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.
- Manages and coordinates project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.
- Proven Experience in I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies. (Agile, Kanban etc)
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