- Provide project oversight on behalf of the Director, Architecture, Digital Governance, Digital Public Health.

- Manage relationships with internal and external partners and vendor teams with respect to the Public Health Data Utility and the Immunization Information System initiatives.

- Ensure that project deliverables are satisfactorily completed.

- Ability to communicate complex technical and contractual information to diverse stakeholders.

- Align vendor and partner activities with broader organizational strategies, risk frameworks, and priorities.

- Define program scope, objectives, and success metrics.

- Develop and maintain program plans, timelines, and budgets.

- Coordinate interdependent projects and manage cross-functional teams.

- Monitor progress and ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.

- Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and communicate program status regularly.

- Ensure alignment of projects with organizational strategy and goals.

- Oversee program documentation and reporting for leadership.

- Collaborate with program managers (or equivalent roles) from vendor and partner organizations to ensure alignment and overall progress of the program.

- Coordinate and develop materials to present to internal partners, integrated project/program teams, steering committees, etc.

- Produce routine and ad-hoc updates on program progress and risks for different audiences as required.

- Performs other duties as assigned.

Strategic Planning & Management:

- Manage day-to-day program delivery coordination across business, data engineering, analytics, architecture, privacy, security, vendor and operational teams to support PHDU and IIS outcomes.

- Responsible for maintaining the PHDU roadmap and working with partners to project and track work associated with the milestones.

- Establish stakeholder engagement, communication and governance plans for PHDU roll-out, IIS delivery.

- Document, manage and maintain integrated program risks, issues, assumptions, decisions and dependencies for PHDU and IIS.

- Work with stakeholders and project teams to conduct regular risk and dependency reviews, identify mitigations and prepare executive-ready status and escalation reports.

- Develop and maintain delivery performance measures and KPIs to track PHDU roll-out progress, and IIS readiness and continuous improvement opportunities.

- Lead and oversee program strategy from inception through delivery, operational transition, perks identification, funding alignment and knowledge transfer.

- Provide PHO Digital & Data (D&D;) leadership with regular program, portfolio and executive status updates.

Program Management and Operations:

- Support execution of PHDU roll-out and IIS delivery processes, identify barriers to progress and ensure activities remain aligned to approved business objectives and analytics outcomes.

- Ensure accountability across related PHDU roll-out and IIS workstreams through full lifecycle planning, delivery tracking and closure activities.

- Ensure delivery is cost-effective, efficient and compliant with PHO, OPS, Ministry, Cluster and project/program management methodologies, standards and frameworks.

- Direct, manage and coordinate multidisciplinary teams and matrixed resources across platform roll-out, data pipeline delivery, analytics enablement, and operational readiness including governance.

- Provide an organizational view of internal and external dependencies, exposure levels, decisions and escalations affecting PHDU delivery.

- Provide leadership, coaching and knowledge transfer to strengthen internal program delivery capability.

- Direct stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building; provide program, and project reporting to multiple stakeholders.

- Lead strategies and actions to manage change impacts and support roll-out of PHDU-enabled delivery practices.

- Supervise the development and communication of program-related updates, governance materials, briefing notes and executive presentations

Requirements

Required Skills

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, or related field (Master's preferred).

- 10+ years of experience in program or project management.

- PMP or PgMP certification is an asset.

- Strong understanding of public health programs and Canadian health data standards.

- Strong leadership and organizational skills.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

- Proficiency in project/program management t

📌 Program Manager - Senior (Toronto)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Toronto