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-productive 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: Busin

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