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RQ00110 - Project Manager / Leader - Intermediate

RQ00110 - Project Manager / Leader - Intermediate

freelance.caToronto, Canada
28 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Description We are reaching out to inform you about a new and exciting job opportunity that I believe aligns with your skills and interests. I would be pleased to provide you with further details if you are interested.

If you are interested, please submit the following documents by Monday, December 23, 3 : 25 PM EST . We believe this opportunity could be a great match for your profile.

Please note that we cannot proceed with your submission without the following mandatory documents :

Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)

Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)

Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)

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LinkedIn ID (Mandatory) Job Title : | RQ00110 - Project Manager / Leader - Intermediate

Work Location : | Toronto, ON

Job Type : | Hybrid

Start Date : | 2025-01-06

End Date : | 2025-04-04

Business Days : | 65.00

Hours per day or Week : | 7.25 hours per day (5 Days) Note :

Location : Hybrid - minimum 2 days onsite per week Public Sector Experience : Beneficial

Must haves

  • 4 years' experience leading pragmatic and actionable agile projects, leveraging Scrum and Kanban.
  • 6 years' experience with the ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
  • 6 years' experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
  • 6 years' extensive experience coordinating, assuring and monitoring compliance to project processes, and developing / communicating guidelines and procedures.

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
  • 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
  • Qualification Bachelor Degree Job Related Sector(s) Project Manager - Leader  Experience

  • Greater Than 10 Year