Job Description
The Project Manager is required to have the following skills and experience:
- have a minimum of three (3) years of experience within the last seven (7) years as a Project Manager in one or more of the following knowledge areas:
Project Integration Management
Project Scope Management
Project Time Management
Project Cost Management
Project Quality Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Communications Management
Project Risk Management
Project Procurement Management
- have an undergraduate degree (e.g. BA, B.Sc, information technology, engineering or other technology related field). The Province will consider certification as a CA, CMC, CMA, CGA, or CFA as an alternative to a conventional undergraduate degree;
- preferably have a PMI Project Management Professional (PMP ) designation;
- have ability to make effective use of technology (e.g. special product knowledge such as Microsoft Project);
- provide project examples that clearly demonstrate experience on at least three (3) projects of eight (8) months or longer duration, which includes strong communication skills to lead stakeholders from multiple groups with diverse interests to consensus on project scope, objectives and responsibilities and liaison with Ministry management and staff;
- provide project examples that clearly demonstrate three (3) or more years in managing multi-disciplinary teams (e.g. core business staff, professional employees, middle managers and other private sector contractors) and developing feasibility studies, business cases, and treasury board submissions;
- provide project examples that clearly demonstrate experience in preparing project charters, master project plans, providing risk analysis and risk management, and coordinating Ministry resources and contractors to achieve project objectives;
- provide project examples that clearly demonstrate experience in managing change requests/budget
requests including:
- cost estimates;
- schedules;
- resources required to deliver integrated solutions;
- deliverables; and
- inter-dependencies on other tasks/sub-projects/Ministries' projects.
The Project Manager will possess demonstrated expertise on projects with the following characteristics:
a) medium complexity and/or sensitivity (usually small to medium scope in a fairly static business environment with limited need for scope adjustment);
b) multiple stakeholders (typically involving interaction with a cross-discipline team represented by several interested parties) such as:
I.government (e.g. a provincial government),
II.broader public sector (e.g. a crown corporation, municipality or agency).
c) routine timelines and budgets generally not exceeding $5 million and usually under one (1) year in duration; and
d) impacts may be to all of government, broader public sector, private sector and to large components of citizenry.
In addition to the skills and experience set out above, the Proponents should demonstrate that the proposed Consultant(s) have the following additional skills and experience:
- Needs experience with team / committee leadership and meeting facilitation where the attendees include the project team, clients and vendor representatives.
- Communication skills:
- Comfortable facilitating video conference meetings.
- Comfortable moderating discussions with many participants and differing points of view.
- Good communication skills both spoken and written.
- Clear and concise note taking and action item tracking during a meeting.
- Experience creating editing and presenting using recent versions of Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Experience creating editing and presenting data and outputs using recent versions of Microsoft Excel.
- Should have experience facilitating issue resolution discussions that meet expectations of clients, and vendors while adhering to the project's scope, timeline and budget.
- Preference will be given for experience working on projects in the banking and/or credit card industry
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