RQ11651 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profileand high risk projects for OPS I& IT initiatives.

- Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ businessrequirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness,efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies andframeworks.

General Skills:

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

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

- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and providereporting and input to ensure targets are met

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

- Ability to promote I⁢ project management bestpractices and adherence to standard methodologies

- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensureproject deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government andministry standards

- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring projectprocesses, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures

- Sources, selects and on-boards team members in variousdisciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and settask/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPSunionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.

- Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiateschanges to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such asproject objectives and deliverables are met.





- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple fundingchannels and cross ministry dependencies.

- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a highlevel of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts andreconciliation/confirmation of actuals.

- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issuesbefore they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.

- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at seniorexecutive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.

- Establishes and participates in steering committee andstakeholder forums.

- Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting tomulti-stakeholders at senior executive levels.

- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcomeresistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during allstages of projects - concept, definition, planning, implementation andclose-out.

- Promotes OPS I⁢ standards and best practices forproject management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence tostandard methodology and the control of the use of I⁢ resources.

- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’sInstitute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge

- Knowledge and understanding of Information Managementprinciples, concepts, policies and practices





- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarianswith Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition ofsoftware, hardware, and technology resources

- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring,anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolvesproblems and provides project effectiveness

- Ability to identify conflict between project and functionalareas and develops responses to successfully address conflict

- Ability to handle client relationships to manageexpectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflictsbetween project and functional areas

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

- Experiencewith direct/indirect cost allocation and Total Cost of Ownership(TCO).

- Comprehendscloud pricing models (AWS/Azure), software licensing, and hardwaredepreciation.

- Experiencebuilding energetic simulation workflows, scenario analysis frameworks, andvariance tracking.

- leadsorganizational development, strategy development, business planning, andMinistry funding requests.

- Experiencedeveloping and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope

Nice to have:

- OPS or public sector exp.

Skill Set Requirements:

Responsibilities:

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

- Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ businessrequirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness,efficien

📌 11748 (Toronto)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Toronto