RQ09085 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

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’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.
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

I&IT Project Management Knowledge and Experience

• The candidate must possess a strong understanding of Siebel functionalities, features, terminologies, work breakdown structure, data structure knowledge, components, dependencies, etc.
  
• The candidate must possess an expert understanding of Siebel Resource skills, roles and responsibilities.
  
• The candidate must be able to have good communication skills not only with Business stakeholders, Project Leadership but also with the Siebel and IT technical resources.
  
• Experience in project planning, management and monitoring experience related to all phases of concurrent I&IT projects using multiple technologies and methodologies.
  
• Experience in creating and tracking the project progress, project decisions and notes, risk log and change management.
  
• Experience in managing and coordinating different stakeholders and project resources, assignments and progresses.
  
• The candidate should be detail-oriented, able to work under pressure and has a keen ability for prioritization of issues.
  
• Technical knowledge and experience to assess and question effort estimates provided by team resources and identified risks and issues inherent in the technology selected, the approach taken and OPS procedures and policies that apply including project architecture, gating and security.
  

Change Management Skills and Experience

• Experience in change management from I&IT project implementation including documenting changes, providing options, estimating impact and seeking approval or direction from the project executive.
  
• Team building and leadership skills in order to engage the project team and ensure collaboration and focus on achieving project deliverables.
  

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

• Demonstrated interpersonal and consultation skills to communicate project deliverables and build strong project teams and client relationships.
  
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to resolve problems and design/deliver presentations, proposals and business cases.
  
• Strong negotiation skills to negotiate project scope, approach and outcomes that meet business needs and help the client make decisions that will get the solution delivered when they need it.
  

Public Sector Experience

• Knowledge of the OPS I&IT project management governance and methodologies would be an asset.
  
• Experience with public sector I&IT project change management would be an asset.
  
• Experience with Public Sector Transfer Payment (Grant) Model would be an asset.
  

Must Have:

• The candidate must possess a strong understanding of Siebel functionalities, features, terminologies, work breakdown structure, data structure knowledge, components, dependencies, etc.
  
• The candidate must possess an expert understanding of Siebel Resource skills, roles and responsibilities.
  
• The candidate must be able to have good communication skills not only with Business stakeholders, Project Leadership but also with the Siebel and IT technical resources.
  
• Experience in project planning, management and monitoring experience related to all phases of concurrent I&IT projects using multiple technologies and methodologies.
  
• Experience in change management from I&IT project implementation including documenting changes, providing options, estimating impact and seeking approval or direction from the project executive.
  

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of the OPS I&IT project management governance and methodologies would be an asset.
  
• Experience with public sector I&IT project change management would be an asset.
  
• Experience with Public Sector Transfer Payment (Grant) Model would be an asset.