On - Rq05362 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

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Job Title: RQ05362 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Client: Ontario Provincial Police

Work Location: Orillia OPP GHQ, Toronto, Ontario, Hybrid

Estimated Start Date: 2023-07-03

Estimated End Date: 2024-03-31

#Business Days: 186.00

Extension: Probable after the initial mandate

Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day

Security Level: OPP Level 4

Must haves:

• Knowledge and understanding of public sector governance and budget processes.
• Experience at a senior level in order to guide a multifaceted project during its initial phases.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale technology projects.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and integrity of privileged/sensitive information.
• Demonstrated experience with complex business case/funding submissions[SD(1] and competitive procurements (i.e., Requests for Bids/Requests for Proposals) in the public sector context.

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:

• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• 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.
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• 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.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• 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.
• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• 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.
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies

Desirable Skills:

• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• 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
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate an invitational competitive procurement process (i.e., Request for Bids).
• Provide oversight and leadership for the overall project to implement the OPP BWC/ICC/ALPR project in its initial planning, funding acquisition, and procurement phase.
• Oversee stakeholder engagement to ensure collaboration.
• Identify and manage critical interdependencies related to key deliverables and timelines.
• Coordinate vendor selection and initial vendor on-boarding.
• Develop and deliver executive communications, regularly presenting to senior management.
• Provide guidance and support to all sub-project leads and technical personnel.
• Manage risks and issues related to the deployment of BWC/ICC/ALPR technology.
• Prepare a business case to secure funding approval from Treasury Board/Management Board of Cabinet, Government of Ontario, with an estimated value of $4 million.
• Confirm all relevant technical requirements for BWC/ICC/ALPR technology.
• Manage escalations related to overall project plan execution.

Experience And Skill Set Requirements

• Experience in identifying project scope and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Track record of meeting deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of fiscal/budgeting elements of technology projects.
• Knowledge and experience in project-managing large-scale technology deployment initiatives. Experience with public sector business case/funding acquisition and competitive procurements.

Experience And Skill Set Requirements

Resume Criteria:

Business Case and Procurement Experience- 35%

• Experience in vendor bid evaluation, vendor selection, and on-boarding.
• Experience preparing complex business cases for funding acquisition.
• Experience in managing and meeting procurement/funding timelines.
• Experience coordinating competitive procurements (e.g., Request for Bids, Requests for Proposals).
• Experience with public sector funding submissions.

Technology Project Management Experience - 35%

• Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans and implementation plans.
• Experience at a senior level in order to guide a multifaceted project during its initial phases.
• Experience gathering technical requirements for multifaceted technology projects.
• Experience managing competing priorities, scope and project timelines.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Relationship Management - 30%

• Leadership skills to align activities across several project streams and organizations.
• Leadership to manage and resolve issues, working in collaboration with team members.
• Experience building relationships with stakeholders and managing competing priorities.
• Experience with public sector governance processes and requirements.
• Experience managing executive relationships and reporting to senior management.

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Note:

This position is currently listed as "Hybrid"; however, the consultant will be remote due to COVID-19 related Work from Home (WFH) direction. Once the I&IT cluster staff are required to return to the office, the resource under this request will be required to work onsite as well.

• 3 days onsite is required

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