Senior Project Manager Leader

Job Title: RQ04704 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Client: Ministry of Solicitor General

Work Location: 21 College Street, Toronto/200 First Ave West, North Bay, Onsite

Estimated Start Date:2023-04-03

Estimated End Date: 2024-03-31

#Business Days: 248.00

Extension: 248.00

Hours per day or Week:7.25 hours per day

Security Level:OPP Level 2

Must Have:

·Communication and Relationship Management:

oDemonstrated experience to act independently and make decisions that achieve optimal results with minimal supervision

·Public safety radio or telecommunications infrastructure experience in a large public sector entity:

oExperience with projects involving network design, network implementation, civil structures, user equipment distribution and operations.

·Project Management Skills-

oDemonstrated experience in managing project activities across multiple complex technology projects

Description:

Skills

·Develop project plans that identify resource, time, and budgetary needs.

·Host project meetings with team and managers.

·Provide feedback, advice, project updates and encouragement to team members.

·Manage deadlines and push the team to ensure timeliness.

·Track project milestones and assist in project acceptance

·Working with the client representatives and in partnership with other project managers to develop integrated plans

·Managing deliverables and dependencies that cross multiple in-flight projects

·Supporting the PSRN Program by proactively identifying, communicating, and managing multi-faceted client-facing risks and issues to deliver a superior customer service experience and to support efficient and effective project delivery.

·Interacting directly with ministry clients, business partners, and project team members to develop and maintain strong ongoing relationships, always looking for opportunities to improve client satisfaction

·Developing and presenting ministry-specific dashboards, reports, and other project management collateral

·Proactively identifying risks and issues pertaining to the assigned work package, report them to the overall Project Champions and the Portfolio Team. Identify and mitigate strategies and responses to the issues and risks.

·Managing vendors, stakeholders, and peer groups across ministries.

·Creating or supporting development of project artifacts, associated documentation, Briefing Notes, Change Requests, Contracts, Request for Bid (RFBs) etc.

·Ensure project implementation plans have no adverse impact to public safety operations.

·Financial management of project as necessary or if needed

·Developing complex network implementation and or transition and migration strategies with cross stream dependencies including vendor activities

·Developing and implementing network implementation and or transition plans

·Managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans

·Knowledge of radio and/or telecommunications systems.

·Effective communication skills to take complex information and present issues in a clear logical manner.

·Identify and analyze issues and problems and make appropriate recommendations for resolutions.

·Experience with facilitating meetings and creating and managing associated documents including minutes and action items.

·Effective communication and consultation skills to build and manage relationships.

·Proficiency in creating and managing project schedules using MS Project and Excel.

·Knowledgeable in Project Management principles and methodologies.

·At least 7 years of experience in project management.

·At least 3 years of demonstrated experience in managing large scale public safety radio or wireless telecommunication infrastructure projects.

·All roles procured are required to be cleared through the Contractor Security Clearance Process of the OPS.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Project Management Skills 35%

·Knowledgeable and able to apply fundamental project management concepts, practices, and procedures to a large project

·Able to perform project management work that is varied, difficult and involves complexity

·A professional who can work without immediate direction

·Ability to apply and interpret business rules and concepts in daily work

·Demonstrated experience in managing project activities across multiple complex technology projects

·Experience leading portfolio level planning sessions involving multiple projects.

·Demonstrated experience preparing and distributing project updates, progress reports to project stakeholders.

·Experience developing, implementing and managing complex network transition and migration strategies and plans

·Ability to manage vendor commitments to ensure contractual obligations are met

·Ability to manage and provide oversight and direction to third party vendor resources

·Experience managing interdependencies related to key contract deliverables

·Reasonable knowledge of industry standards and methodologies

·IT project management experience managing all phases (concept, definition, planning, implementation, and closeout) of large scale, complex IT projects.

·Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks, providing options analysis, and recommending action plans to mitigate the risks.

·Demonstrated experience with project management tools, such as, MS Project, Clarity/Planview or equivalents for standard status reporting.

·Experience creating and maintaining project management artefacts/project collaterals, such as, meeting minutes, project plans, briefing notes, Change Requests.

·Experience with meeting facilitation, meeting minute creation, action item follow-ups.

·Experience working with both the business users and technology / infrastructure teams.

·Experience creating various levels of reports (e.g. executive, summary, status, etc.).

·Demonstrated experience managing project schedules using MS Project and MS Project Online.

·Demonstrated experience of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio), SharePoint, PowerBI

·Provide the necessary input into project streams to ensure a successful handoff from implementation to operations including input into service management processes, asset lifecycle, collection of CI attributes, sparing and patching.

·Excellent planning and time management skills and a focus on attention to detail.

Communication and Relationship Management 20%

·Excellent verbal and written communication skills and decision-making skills.

·A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks.

·Experience reviewing and ensuring submitted documentation is complete and accurate.

·Experience developing and presenting briefing notes, status reports, communications, team & executive presentations.

·Excellent facilitation skills, interpersonal and consultative skills.

·A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

·Demonstrated experience to act independently and make decisions that achieve optimal results with minimal supervision

·Detail oriented and strong multitasking abilities in order to juggle multiple client demands

Public safety radio or telecommunications infrastructure experience in a large public sector entity 25%

·Strong experience of working on/in public safety radio/ telecommunication infrastructure domain.Experience of related large and complex projects with over $ 50 Million budget.

·Experience with projects involving network design, network implementation, civil structures, user equipment distribution and operations.

·Experience with projects involving large number of users (over 10,000), meeting their business requirements, training and communications needs etc.

·Demonstrated experience of working with multiple stakeholders in a broader public sector (BPS) environment.

·Knowledge and experience both in strategic and operational public sector governance models, experience managing complex, multi-unit, multi-stakeholder, and multiple levels of public sector executive stakeholder project team,

·Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities.

·Awareness of emerging technology trends.

Analytical and Problem Solving 20%

·Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

·Ability to identify issues or problems, gather relevant information and perform analysis and build reports to support decision-making on project scope, schedule, cost

·Accurately document issue, gaps, and inconsistencies when they happen

·Communicate issues with options considered and recommended actions