Project Manager/Leader-Health Jobs

Must haves:

• Knowledge of Healthcare Information Systems used throughout the province of Ontario
• Experience working with Business, Technical, Architecture, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders
• Experience with health system business implementation and deployment projects
• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)
• Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working with Microsoft Products, with a preference for candidates that have experience with Microsoft based cloud tools.
• Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects
• Minimum 8-10 years’ project management experience working in electronic health-related projects in Agile environment.

Deliverables include, but are not limited to:

Responsibilities:

• Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OH project management methodologies and frameworks
• Provides project management on large scale, complex projects for Ontario Health (OH) initiatives

General Skills:

• 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
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
• Promotes OH standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of resources
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
• 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
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• 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
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers

Desirable Skills:

• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• 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
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices