Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

Job Title: RQ00110 - Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

Client: Metrolinx

Work Location: 277 Front St W, Toronto, ON

Job Type: Hybrid

Start Date: 2025-01-06

End Date: 2025-04-04

#Business Days: 65.00

Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day (5 Days)

Note:

• Location: Hybrid - minimum 2 days onsite per week
• Public Sector Experience: Beneficial

Must haves:

• 4 years' experience leading pragmatic and actionable agile projects, leveraging Scrum and Kanban.
• 6 years' experience with the ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
• 6 years' experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
• 6 years' extensive experience coordinating, assuring and monitoring compliance to project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.

Description

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.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management.
• 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.