RQ11699 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

- Assigned Recruiter(s) Madhumitha Mulakaluri
- Job Opening ID 11790
- City Toronto
- Country Canada
- Number of Positions 1
- Work Experience 7-10 Years

Job Description

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,efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies andframeworks.

- Provides project management to 2 concurrent projects to becompleted and deployed in parallel of a large scale, complex, high profile andhigh risk projects for OPS I⁢ 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.

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

- Knowledge and experience leading, managing RFBs (Request forBid)

- Oversee the governance and communication

- Must have robust communication skillset as the position willdeal with executives.

- Experience managing resources for large data migrationactivities.

Nice to have:

- Public sector Experience or OPS experience.

Skill Set Requirements:

General Skills:

- Extensive proven experience gathering, developing anddocumenting business requirements and developing Business Cases.

- Proven skills to demonstrate in a Business Case:justification for undertaking a project, program or portfolio, describe visionof the future, demonstrate the value and benefits the project brings to thebusiness, evaluate of the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options andprovide a rationale for the preferred solution.

- Experience writing Business Cases using OPS methodology andtemplates is preferred.

- Extensive experience presenting the Business Case at variousexecutive committees and obtaining its approvals.

- Extensive experience mapping business requiremen

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