Position : Project Manager / Leader - Junior
Location : Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Duration : Business Days + Possible Extension
Job Description :
- Knowledge of, and direct experience applying all phases (concept, definition, planning, implementation, and closeout) of fundamental project management concepts, practices, and procedures to a large-scale, complex, high-value projects to meet critical timelines.
- Able to work effectively on concurrent tasks, while also building capacity and supporting the project team.
- A professional who can work with minimal direction and perform project management work that is varied and involves complexity.
- Ability to apply and interpret business rules and concepts in daily work.
- Experience creating various levels of reports ( executive, summary, status, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience supporting meetings, preparing, and distributing project updates and materials, taking minutes / action items, maintaining progress reports, documenting risk mitigations, recommendations, etc.
- Ability to support vendor management and commitments, provide oversight to ensure contractual obligations are met.
- Reasonable knowledge of industry standards and methodologies
- Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks, providing options analysis, and recommending action plans to mitigate the risks.
- Demonstrated experience with standard project management tools, such as, MS Project, Clarity / Planview, Visio, MS Office Suite, SharePoint, PowerBI or equivalents.
- Experience creating and maintaining project management artefacts / project collaterals, such as, meeting minutes, project plans, briefing notes, change requests.
- Experience working with both the business users and technology / infrastructure teams.
- Strong planning and time management skills with a focus on attention to detail.
- Strong communications skills, both written and verbal. Able to succinctly articulate key project information in a politically astute manner.
- A team player with the ability to support multiple tasks.
- Able to build relationships with project partners, establish trust, and establish a common / shared goal through effective facilitation, consultation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience creating documentation that is both complete and accurate.
- Experience developing and presenting risk and issue status, progress status reports, dashboards, email communications, etc.
- Strong facilitation, interpersonal, and consultative skills.
- Good problem-solving and organizational skills, and awareness of emerging technology trends.
- Demonstrated experience to act with minimal supervision.
- Detail oriented and strong multitasking abilities in order to juggle multiple clients demands.
- Demonstrated experience working on / in public safety radio and / or the telecommunications and / or IT infrastructure field.
- Experience working on related large and complex projects.
- Demonstrated experience of working with multiple stakeholders in a broader public sector (BPS) environment.
- Experience of projects involving, network design, network implementation, civil structures, user equipment distribution and operations.
- Knowledge and experience both in strategic and operational public sector governance models, experience managing complex, multi-unit, multi-stakeholder, and multiple levels of public sector executive stakeholder project team,
- Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities.
- Ability to proactively identify risks, issues, or problems, gather relevant information, perform analysis, develop options and recommendations to share with the project team.
- Experience building reports to support decision-making on project scope, schedule, cost.
- Accurately document issues, gaps, and inconsistencies when they happen and develop strategies / mitigations / lessons learned.
- Utilize judgement to explore cross team / project opportunities for improvement.
Must have :
- Knowledge of radio and Public Safety Radio Network
- Problem solver : ability to identify and analyze risks, issues, and problems, develop mitigation options and present findings to senior team members.
- Knowledge of, and direct experience applying, fundamental project management tools, techniques, and methodologies to projects of various sizes and complexity.
30+ days ago