Senior Program Manager Jobs

Job Title:08Z27826-RFR-167 – Program Manager

Office Location:Onsite

#Business Days:Up to 24 Month

Role Description:

The Program Manager is responsible for providing strategic and operational guidance and direction with a coordinated approach to the management and performance of the program

Responsibilities:

·Develop an overall understanding of each project in the program

·Oversee and coordinate dependencies across projects within the program.

·Support planning related to program, project and resources

·Ensure projects adhere to governance standards, policies, and practices within the PMO

·Liase with stakeholders ensuring communications and reporting for projects within the program

·Work with project managers to oversee the project lifecycle for all projects within the program

·Provide direction and strategies to projects to ensure projects are delivered on time, budget, and scope

·Track and report project statuses and KPIs to ensure accountability to project deliverables and performance.

·Engage in vendor evaluation, selection, and contract negotiations

·Contribute to PMO processes continuous improvement

SKILLREQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS

A clean criminal record check status will be required at the proponent’s expense prior to the successful Service Provider Resource(s) arriving onsite. Maintaining a clean status is required throughout the Proponents contract. An enhanced background check, completed by Manitoba may be required on certain projects due to the confidentiality of

the materials shared to the Proponent. If the proponent fails, they must rectify on their own cost and time.

The following are minimum qualifications and/or experience for the delivery of the Services. The Resource must have the following minimum qualifications or experience:

·Minimum of ten (10) years of experience managing Information Technology projects

·Valid PMP Certification or Prince2 Practitioner certification.

·Extensive knowledge and experience with project management methodologies

·Experience with strategic planning

·Experience leading and managing a project team

·Expertise in project lifecycles, and project planning including resource, cost, and schedule estimation

·Strong understanding of information technology and its strategic application to business

·Strong facilitation and negotiation skills

·Strong analysis and problem resolution skills

·Strong leadership, organization, and time management, and decision making skills

·Strong interpersonal, listening, and conflict resolution skills

·Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation

SERVICESANDDELIVERABLES

All Services will be performed on-site with primary location at 215 Garry Street, Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba, regardless of the location of residence of the Proponent’s resource. The service location of the resource may change as a part of STATEMENT OF WORK between Proponent and Manitoba. The onsite rate is the rate at which proponent’s resource will work primarily onsite as per the location defined in STATEMENT OF WORK.

Standard working hours for the resource will be in accordance with Manitoba usual working hours of 8.30 am to 4.30 pm CST (7.25 hours per day), Monday to Friday. Manitoba offices are closed on all Manitoba statutory holidays, and these days will be unpaid. Manitoba at its sole discretion may decide that at certain times extended working hours are needed to meet project deadlines. But extended working hours are to cover exceptional circumstances and may not be available during the entire duration of the engagement with the proponent’s resource. Overtime work cannot be used and billed unless approved by Manitoba with an advanced written approval.

The Successful Service Provider is to provide a cell phone to its resource at its own cost.

The details of hardware and software required to deliver the services to Manitoba will be provided in final STATEMENT OF WORK between Proponent and Manitoba.

Manitoba will only pay Proponent for the time worked by the Proponent’s resource on the projects assigned by Manitoba. While assigned to the project, the time spent waiting (e.g. for approvals and signoff on deliverables) is not billable. Manitoba will use reasonable efforts to assign other projects’ and deliverables.

Proponent’s proposed resource shall provide outcome-based value to Manitoba while working on projects assigned by Manitoba. Proponent’s resource shall not bill Manitoba for repetitive rework on any deliverables. Acting reasonably, Manitoba may allow one or

two feedbacks and rework based on those feedbacks. Examples of repetitive rework includes but are not limited to:

(a)Architectural Review Board (ARB) approval document needs repetitive rework to get approved through ARB process

(b)Business Requirements Document needs repetitive rework to get approved from Manitoba

(c)Project charter needs rework repetitively to get executive approval

During the engagement, if services from the resource is discontinued by the Proponent, the cost of the transition to the new resource will be borne by the Proponent. If Manitoba requests to change the Proponent’s resource the cost of transition will be borne by Manitoba.