RQ10401 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

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:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
  


• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
  


• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
  


• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
  


• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
  


• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
  


• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
  


• 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.
  


• 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.
  


• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
  


• 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.
  


• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
  


• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi\-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
  


• 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.
  


• 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.
  

Desirable Skills:

• 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
  


• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  


• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
  


• 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
  


• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Have:

• 10+ years demonstrated hands\-on Project Management experience managing large complex application development projects
  


• 7+ years demonstrated experience managing agile/iterative/scrum projects
  


• Experience managing project resources by aligning skills/experience to project tasks
  


• 3+ years' experience multiple complex public facing vital events initiatives for the citizens of Ontario project
  


• Demonstrated experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in complex multi\-stakeholder environments
  


• 5+ years demonstrated experience managing technical resources and tasks involving solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, testing, platform upgrades/patching, maintenance/support, integration
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Project Management:

• 10+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
  


• Demonstrated experience with managing multi\-year multi\-million budget projects 
  


• Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources.
  


• Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams and other tools that support project management, collaboration and development of processes and plans 
  


• 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, KanBan, Workamajig, etc.
  


• Experience in validating financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provide on\-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
  


• Experience in formulating and determining business and technical requirements, business problems, business objectives, product visions, goals and outcomes.
  


• Demonstrated ability to direct, collaborate and inform policy, IT, legal, communication and privacy teams.
  

Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills:

• Experience utilizing, managing and understanding various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum and scalable minimum viable products. (must have)
  


• Experience with I&IT technology site deployment/rollout.
  


• Experience leading, facilitating and initiating large\-scale technology infrastructure procurements.
  


• Experience in defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering the initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables as needed.
  


• Experience with underlying technologies and processes for the delivery of an end\-to\-end electronic solution.
  


• Technical knowledge of Oracle and related deployment environments in order to coordinate and lead activities
  


• Experience in leading QA activities and processes
  

Documentation Skills:

• Experience creating privacy, financial, communication and IT documentation including business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments, Threat Impact Assessments, Requests for Service and Requests for Information. 
  

Public Sector Experience:

• Experience with Public Sector ITIL process including incident management, release management, problem management, support models, etc.
  


• Experience with OPS business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements and business rules. 
  


• Knowledge of Government network and desktop infrastructure procurement, implementation and support models.