RQ11582 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Job summary

The Project Manager will lead large-scale, complex I&IT initiatives, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements within scope and budget. They are responsible for managing project teams, overseeing budgets, and communicating risks and progress to senior executive stakeholders.

Job details

Responsibilities: Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk projects for OPS I&IT 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&IT 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&IT 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&IT resources. Awareness / knowledge of emerging I&IT 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 Requirements Experience and Skill Set Requirements: Must Haves: Project Management Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills Documentation Skills Public Sector Experience Skill Set Requirements: Project Management Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills Documentation Skills Public Sector Experience

What you’ll do

The Project Manager will lead large-scale, complex I&IT initiatives, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements within scope and budget. They are responsible for managing project teams, overseeing budgets, and communicating risks and progress to senior executive stakeholders.

Requirements

Candidates must have extensive experience in project management, deployment, and integration within the public sector. Strong documentation skills and the ability to adhere to government and ministry standards are essential requirements for this role.

Listed skills

• Change Management · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Reporting · Preferred
• Team Leadership · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• Conflict Resolution · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Project Management
• Strategic Planning
• Budget Management
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Resource Management
• I&IT Methodologies
• Business Planning
• Change Management
• Reporting
• Team Leadership
• Public Sector Standards
• Requirement Gathering
• Fiscal Control
• Project Scheduling
• Conflict Resolution
• Project Schedules
• Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK) Methodology
• Accountability
• Project Integration
• Expectation Management
• Strategy Development
• Planning
• Budgeting
• Reconciliation
• Business Requirements
• Communication
• Concept Image And Concept Definition
• Forecasting
• Information Management
• Organizational Development
• Project Coordination
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Methodology
• Coordinating
• Mitigation
• Resourcing

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Technology
• Government & Public Sector
• Consulting
• Lead Project Manager
• Project Manager (General)
• Management and Organization Analysts
• Project Management Specialists