RQ08825 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior About the job RQ08825 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior Description

Responsibilities

Provide project management for various high-profile projects within the branch

Ensure 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

Interact with senior staff within the ministry and with external partners and manage relationships

Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and ministry funding requests.

Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan

Identify 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

Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members so that project objectives and deliverables are met

Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies

Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals

Use ministry project management tools for recording and reporting project/program data

Participate in team meetings

Create/update Integrated Project Management Plan (IPP), adjust and update IPP as per change requests

Perform reviews of schedule, variance analysis, adjust leads and lags, and revise schedule





Manage and monitor project progress, critical path activities, and report on slippage

Create overall project status and project progress reports for project executives and stakeholders

Identify and manage issues, review issue status, and produce issue logs

Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed

Articulate and prioritize issues and risks at senior executive levels, and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers

Review change requests, and prepare change requests report to be reviewed by Change Control Board, and adjust integrated project plan accordingly

Prepare business transformation and adoption plans

Create and provide knowledge transfer documentation as part of the knowledge transfer plan

Establish and participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums

Provide project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels

Use 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

Promote 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

Adopt and adhere to OPS Unified I⁢ Project Methodology, OPS/e-Health Ontario Gating process

Be a demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

NOTE

Extension/Amendment Attestation:

Extension(s) only allowed using unused days/funds left on contract. No additional funds will be added beyond the maximum contract value and any extension options included in the original SOW. These resources will be acquired through the IT Source Resource Pool or VOR Competitive arrangement #Tender_12075 Managed Service Provider for Contingent IT Resources and/or Successor VOR for services all ending April 5, 2026. VOR #Tender_12075 terminates April 5, 2026.

Assignment Type : This position is currently listed as Hybrid as consultants will be required to work onsite at the work location 2 days a week and 3 days from home. The details of this arrangement will be at the Hiring Manager's discretion.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements Core Skills and Experience

Over 10+ years of project management experience leading and planning complex, mission critical projects or initiatives involving business transformation, and design, development, implementation, and integration of IT solutions and services including web-based applications, Cloud-based services, and APIs.

Over 10+ years of experience with the Software Development Life Cycle following Waterfall, DevOps, Agile or Iterative methodologies and practices.

Working with business analysts and system designers to define project scope, and design and translate the business requirements and functional specifications into an application design

📌 Project Manager/Leader - Senior (Toronto)
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📍 Toronto