16 Oct
Maarut
East York
Responsibilities:
- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I⁢ 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.
- 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⁢ 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⁢ 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⁢ resources.
Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Must Haves:
- 5+ years of Project Manager experience - strong Communication and Coordination, Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
- Experience with driving forums, responsible for coordinating roll outs that are happening throughout project
- Experience Communicating with stakeholder at senior executive levels - internally and externally
Skill Set Requirements:
Project Management Skills:
- Experience in planning, organizing and implementing projects and reporting solutions
- Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
- 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
- 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
- Familiarity with change management principles and methodology
End-to-end experience with Planview Enterprise:
- Experience working with the various modules of Planview Enterprise (e.g. intake, financial management, request management, resource management, strategic portfolio management, etc.)
Training Skills:
- Experience providing both one-on-one and group training in an office setting
- Experience developing training materials such as job aid and user guides
- Experience creating electronic presentations (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Interpersonal Skills:
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills
- Strong relationship management skills with the ability to interact with different teams across the organization with ease and professionalism
- Strong communication skills with experience working in a team environment
▶️ Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate
🖊️ Maarut
📍 East York