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 Requirements 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