RQ11323 Project Manager/Leader - Senior Organization: Community Services Cluster Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement location: Toronto ON Onsite Pay rate: 95-113/hr incorp TitleRQ11323 Project Manager/Leader - Senior Project Manager/Leader - Senior Description 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 dynamic 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 Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements Technical Skills - 40% - Demonstrated experience in coordinating and planning for the modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multitier information technology systems.
- Experience documenting technical problems/issues and developing plans to address the solutions in a cost-effective manner - Proven experience facilitating the resolution of I⁢ and Business issues using advanced technologies.
- Proven experience with JAD facilitation, interpreting business needs to create technical requirements, and leading project meetings - Demonstrated experience with prototyping, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, and Planview - Experience producing Project Planning and Coordination documentation such as but not limited to: Business Case, Processes, Charter, Integrated Project Plan, Migration plans, Schedules, project kick off materials,



roadmaps, release management etc. throughout SDLC (Agile and Waterfall) Project Management and Methodologies - 45% - Experience leading the planning, coaching, communication and execution of actions that lead toward delivery and adoption of data-driven solutions - Experience advising, shaping and delivering technology-led transformation programs - Experience building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders to successfully deliver on transformation goals - Demonstrated experience facilitating discussions with internal and external stakeholders on processes and goals to drive the project delivery to successful completion.
- Coordinating and executing Threat Risk Analysis and Privacy Impact Analysis, and addressing outcomes and/or recommendations - Experience with business stakeholder management and status reporting at the Executive level - Experience supporting business users working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources.
- Demonstrable experience with requirement management, quality assurance and change management processes and tools - Experience in documenting business, technical and system processes and requirements - Demonstrated experience leading multiple project teams concurrently using a mix of dedicated and shared resources - Ability to introduce best practices, templates, SharePoint management sites for software development projects - Experience with MS Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio.
- Experience tracking project finances and burn rates, as well as resource allocation.
- Experience with AODA compliance Communications Skills - 10% - Excellent communication and written skills - Skills in consensus building and issue resolution involving key stakeholders, and members of teams - Experience introducing technical standards business process improvements to development team Public Sector Experience - 5% - Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size or complexity to Ontario Public Service Must Have:
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating and planning for the modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multitier information technology systems.
- Experience producing Project Planning and Coordination documentation such as but not limited to: Business Case, Processes, Charter, Integrated Project Plan, Migration plans, Schedules, project kick off materials, roadmaps, release management etc. throughout SDLC (Agile and Waterfall) - Experience with business stakeholder management and status reporting at the Executive level - Experience with Planview

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