RQ11323 – Project Manager/Leader – Senior

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.
• Awareness
  / knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions
• Ability
  to adapt to changing trends, leverage emerging tools and methodologies,
  and effectively lead projects to success in today’s dynamic IT landscape

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

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Demonstrated experience in coordinating and planning for the
  modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multitier information
  technology systems.
  
• Experience producing Project Planning and Coordination
  documentation such as but not limited to: Business Case, Processes,
  Charter, Integrated Project Plan, Migration plans, Schedules, project kick off
  materials, roadmaps, release management etc. throughout SDLC (Agile and
  Waterfall)
  
• Experience with business stakeholder management and status
  reporting at the Executive level
  

Nice to Have: 

• Experience with Planview
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in coordinating and planning for the
  modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multitier information
  technology systems.
  
• Experience documenting technical problems/issues and
  developing plans to address the solutions in a cost-efficient manner
  
• Proven experience facilitating the resolution of I&IT
  and Business issues using advanced technologies.
  
• Proven experience with JAD facilitation, interpreting
  business needs to create technical requirements, and leading project meetings
  
• Demonstrated experience with prototyping, Microsoft Azure
  DevOps, Microsoft Project, and Planview
  
• Experience producing Project Planning and Coordination
  documentation such as but not limited to:  Business Case, Processes, Charter,
  Integrated Project Plan, Migration plans, Schedules, project kick off
  materials, roadmaps, release management etc. throughout SDLC (Agile and
  Waterfall)
  

Project Management and Methodologies:

• Experience leading the planning, coaching, communication and
  execution of actions that lead toward delivery and adoption of data-driven
  solutions 
  
• Experience advising, shaping and delivering technology-led
  transformation programs
  
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with
  internal and external stakeholders to successfully deliver on transformation
  goals
  
• Demonstrated experience facilitating discussions with
  internal and external stakeholders on processes and goals to drive the project
  delivery to successful completion.
  
• Coordinating and executing Threat Risk Analysis and Privacy
  Impact Analysis, and addressing outcomes and/or recommendations
  
• Experience with business stakeholder management and status
  reporting at the Executive level
  
• Experience supporting business users working on projects or
  programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data
  sources.
  
• Demonstrable experience with requirement management, quality
  assurance and change management processes and tools
  
• Experience in documenting business, technical and system
  processes and requirements
  
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple project teams
  concurrently using a mix of dedicated and shared resources
  
• Ability to introduce best practices, templates, SharePoint
  management sites for software development projects
  
• Experience with MS Office software, including Word, Excel,
  PowerPoint, Project, and Visio.
  
• Experience tracking project finances and burn rates, as well
  as resource allocation.
  
• Experience with AODA compliance
  

Communications Skills:

• Excellent communication and written skills
  
• Skills in consensus building and issue resolution involving
  key stakeholders, and members of teams
  
• Experience introducing technical standards business process
  improvements to development team
  

Public Sector Experience:

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of
  equivalent size or complexity to Ontario Public Service