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Project Manager / Leader

Project Manager / Leader

Cleo ConsultingON, Canada
4 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Assignment : RQ08244 - Project Manager / Leader - Senior

Job Title : Project Manager / Leader

Requisition (SS) : RQ08244

Start Date : 2024-12-16

End Date : 2025-03-31

Client : Government Services Integration Cluster

Office Location : 222 Jarvis St. 5th Floor, Toronto

Organization : Government Services Integration Cluster

Ministry : Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (former MGCS)

Business Days : 80.00

Note : Hybrid - 3 days onsite / 2 days remote

Must Have :

  • 10+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
  • Demonstrated experience with managing multi-year multi-million budget projects
  • Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams and other tools that support project management, collaboration and development of processes and plans

Nice to have :

  • Prior experience with Agile / waterfall mixed project manager experience.
  • Description

    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.
  • 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

    Project Management - 35%

  • 10+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
  • Demonstrated experience with managing multi-year multi-million budget projects
  • Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams and other tools that support project management, collaboration and development of processes and plans
  • Experience managing project life cycles including assigning resources and maintaining the project backlogs and in-progress / completed tasks with collaboration tools like : Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project, KanBan, Workamajig, etc.
  • Experience in validating financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
  • Experience in formulating and determining business and technical requirements, business problems, business objectives, product visions, goals and outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to direct, collaborate and inform policy, IT, legal, communication and privacy teams.
  • Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills - 35%

  • Experience utilizing, managing and understanding various software development methodologies, including Agile / Scrum and scalable minimum viable products. (must have)
  • Experience with I&IT technology site deployment / rollout.
  • Experience leading, facilitating and initiating large-scale technology infrastructure procurements.
  • Experience in defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering the initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables as needed.
  • Experience with underlying technologies and processes for the delivery of an end-to-end electronic solution.
  • Technical knowledge of Oracle and related deployment environments in order to coordinate and lead activities
  • Experience in leading QA activities and processes
  • Documentation Skills - 20%

  • Experience creating privacy, financial, communication and IT documentation including business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments, Threat Impact Assessments, Requests for Service and Requests for Information.
  • Public Sector Experience - 10%

  • Experience with Public Sector ITIL process including incident management, release management, problem management, support models, etc.
  • Experience with OPS business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements and business rules.
  • Knowledge of Government network and desktop infrastructure procurement, implementation and support models.