Job Description

On behalf of our client in Public Sector, we are looking one year contract Senior Project Manager

Duration: 1 year

Start Date : Apr 03

Description

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

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Agile project management

• Experience setting up the agile environment your team needs to build and iterate on a user-centred service
• Experience leading and coordinating the team including daily stand-ups, sprints planning and backlog grooming
• Experience with user centred design practices and processes
• Experience with an iterative approach to product development and testing
• Experience with agile engineering methods and a broad range of internet technologies such as common internet protocols, web analytics, semantic markup, REST, and other foundational web topologies that underpin modern digital applications

Collaboration and facilitation

• Experience with planning and facilitating product and extended team’s work through collaborative and interactive work sessions
• Experience managing the agile process for a multi-disciplinary teams that include a product manager, software developers, user researchers, designers, dev/ops, content creators and other subject matter experts
• Experience helping your product teams become better at autonomously organizing their own work

Communications and relationships

• Outstanding interpersonal skills and experience navigating complex issues and stakeholders.
• Experience building strong relationships across organizations
• Experience creating and presenting information for different audiences
• Experience communicating timelines and progress to audiences with different levels of experience with agile practices
• Experience flagging an removing obstacles or 'blockers' to progress

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Salary: From $100.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Toronto, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Experience:

• Project management: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2023-03-02
Expected start date: 2023-04-03

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