Responsibilities:

- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I⁢ 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⁢ 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⁢ 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⁢ resources.

- Awareness / knowledge of emerging I⁢ trends and directions

- Ability to adapt to changing trends, leverage emerging tools and methodologies, and effectively lead projects to success in today's energetic IT landscape

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 Haves:

- Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects

- Ability to prioritize workload, demonstrate critical thinking, identify problems, develop and implement solutions

- Experience managing a project following an Iterative project delivery methodology

Skill Set Requirements:

Project Management Skills:

- Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects

- Demonstrated experience in developing executive-level briefings, presentations and status reporting





- Significant experience in coordinating a large team and ensuring knowledge is shared amongst team members

- Extensive complex project management and delivery experience with both IT and business aspects/attributes

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

- Ability to prioritize workload, demonstrate critical thinking, identify problems, develop and implement solutions

- Demonstrated project issue and risk management experience for high-risk, high-profile and complex projects

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

Technical Skills:

- Experience managing a project following an Iterative project delivery methodology

- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management policies and practices

- Experience in identifying barriers and required success factors for effective integration or collaboration

- Knowledge of standards for health care data exchange, in particular Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and SmileCDR

- Knowledge of and experience integrating solutions with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Hospital Information Systems (HIS)

- Experience working with containers and container orchestration tools such as RedHat Openshift or Kubernetes

- Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs

- Experience with the following languages/frameworks: Java frameworks such as Spring Boot and Quarkus, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, HAPI FHIR, Node.js, YAML, ELK Stack

Communication Skills:

- Superior verbal and written communication skills to effectively inform executive decision-making and to report status to corporate governance bodies including group facilitation skills, experience in preparing reports, proposals, briefing materials, presentations, and other communications

- Strong consulting skills to engage with stakeholders

- Strong customer service orientation to ensure needs of clients are effectively met

- Demonstrated team player with excellent multi-tasking abilities and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines

Healthcare Experience:

- Demonstrated experience in a healthcare or clinical context

- Demonstrated experience supporting stakeholder engagement activities, particularly in a healthcare context

- Demonstrated experience with the privacy and security requirements of software development in a healthcare or clinical context.

📌 Project Manager/Leader - Senior (East York)
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