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Our client requires a Program Manager with public sector experience to lead and oversee complex transformation initiatives on a program level with a strong focus on delivering strategic priorities with Council commitments. This resource requires good experience managing application development projects from initiation to closing.

Work is hybrid with 3 days onsite at client location in Toronto, ON. Monday and Wednesdays are the anchor days and one flex day).

Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid)

Mandatory Requirements

Mandatory Requirements Include:

• 10+ years of Program Leadership and/or Senior Project Management experience, exhibiting clear, practical knowledge of tools and techniques for planning, organizing, executing, monitoring and controlling complex IT projects.
• 5+ years’ experience application development projects; from initiation to closing
• PMP certification
• Agile
• Public Sector Experience

Qualifications Include:

• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out and any required transition to operations, business planning, benefits identification and organization funding requests for I&IT programs.
• Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating I&IT executive expectations and translating into program deliverables
• Experience directing, managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams including multiple Project Managers, each responsible for an element of the project and associated matrix team members
• Experience monitoring and managing the cost, risk, schedule, governance, technical performance, and program impact of each of the component projects
• Experience providing a program/portfolio view of project inter-dependencies and external project dependencies, monitoring and reporting on exposure levels
• Exercises a range of leadership responsibilities including the role of coach and developer of talent
• Experience developing complex budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross organization dependencies.
• Experience analyzing program and organization’s environments to identify potential risks and issues; articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to senior executives; recommends mitigation strategies to decision-makers to ensure projects are delivered on schedule
• Uses significant innovation in the planning, analysis and execution of tasks
• Experience directing stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building. Provides program, portfolio, and/or project reporting to multiple stakeholders
• Experience leading strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change
• Experience seeking new and unique business processes, technologies and products to benefit programs, portfolios and projects
• Experience supervising the development and communication of program related updates including through media relations, social media etc.
• Experience building positive relationships within the team and external parties
• Experience contributing to improvements in life cycle based on lessons learned and past experience
• Adheres to organization’s standards and best practices for program
• Experience scheduling and organizing meetings/events and maintaining agenda
• Ensures technology is used correctly for all operations (video conferencing, presentations etc.).
• Extensive experience in managing large-scale projects and/or programs of significant complexity and value with high risk; including enterprise transformational IT projects, multistakeholder projects, in the public sector, preferably with experience at the City of Toronto.
• Successful candidates must have 10+ years of Program Leadership and/or Senior Project Management experience, exhibiting clear, practical knowledge of tools and techniques for planning, organizing, executing, monitoring and controlling complex IT projects.
• Extensive experience in using project management tools for planning and implementing complex projects and packages (using tools such as Microsoft EPM would be a definite asset).
• Experience working in a matrix project environment. Proven capabilities for developing and maintaining complex project delivery schedules. Excellent relationship management and consulting skills; ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders, mobilize and motivate teams; set direction and approach, resolve conflicts, execute with limited information and ambiguity.
• Demonstrated experience across all stages of various IT project types, including information/data management projects, infrastructure/application development projects; from initiation to closing