Project Manager/Leader - Junior

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:

• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• 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.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies

Desirable Skills:

• 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 handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• 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
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Project Management:

• 4+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams (mush have).
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams and other tools that support project management, collaboration and development of
• Experience in validating financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
• Demonstrated experience with managing multi-year multi-million budget projects
• 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.
• Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources (must have).
• Demonstrated ability to direct, collaborate and inform policy, IT, legal, communication and privacy teams.
• Processes and plans
• Experience in formulating and determining business and technical requirements, business problems, business objectives, product visions, goals and outcomes (must have).

Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills:

• Experience with I&IT technology site deployment/rollout.
• Experience leading, facilitating and initiating large-scale technology infrastructure procurements.
• Technical knowledge of J2EE, Websphere, Oracle and related deployment environments in order to coordinate and lead activities
• Experience with underlying technologies and processes for the delivery of an end-to-end electronic solution.
• Experience utilizing, managing and understanding various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum and scalable minimum viable products.
• Experience in defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering the initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables as needed (must have).
• Experience in leading QA activities and processes

Documentation Skills:

• Service and Requests for Information.
• Experience creating privacy, financial, communication and IT documentation including business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments, Threat Impact Assessments, Requests for
• Experience with business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements and business rules (must have).
• Experience with project management processes including incident management, release management, problem management, support models, etc.