RQ02654 - Project Manager/Leader – Junior

Duration: 11 months

Start Date – 2022-01-19

End Date – 2022-12-30

Location - Toronto

NOTE

Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as "hybrid" due to COVID-19 related WFH direction. Once HSC staff are required to return to the office, the resource under this request will be required to work onsite as well. 

Extension/Amendment Attestation: Extension(s) only allowed using unused days/funds left on contract. No additional funds will be added beyond maximum contract value.

Description

  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, gating, 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

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Project Management Skills

·       Project Management experience (as appropriate to the specified experience and level) and use of Project Management software (as appropriate to the specified experience level).

·       Knowledge of latest developments and leading practices in the project management industry and profession, (e.g. PMBOK®) and familiarity with best practices in other industries, sectors or jurisdictions related to project management methodologies.

·       Experience in the development and implementation of project management processes, plans, and communication tools.

·       Experience in creating portfolio plans, monitoring project performance against project plans and generating progress reports using earned value or similar techniques.

·       Experience in Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies

·       An experienced individual with a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines and supporting cross-functional teams to ensure work on tasks/milestones remains within time and cost constraints.

·       Knowledge of OPS Integrated Project Management Framework and Methodology

45%

Communication/Soft Skills

·       Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills

·       Demonstrated experience working with a large project team

·       Demonstrated experience preparing and distributing project updates, progress reports to project stakeholder while managing expectations pertaining to scope and timeline constraints.

·       Demonstrated experience communicating across many functional areas to actively engage project stakeholders and manage client expectations with diverse interests, technical and non- technical backgrounds using the appropriate level of political acuity and messaging for the audience

·       Demonstrated experience identifying and acquiring a mix of skilled technical resources necessary to complete project assignments/deliverables; including clarifying roles and responsibilities

·       Written communication skills to prepare authoritative recommendations, proposals and reports; such as Briefing Notes

·       Strong discipline in resolving resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, ensures knowledge is shared among team members to achieve project objectives

·       Demonstrated experience leading presentations for senior management, stakeholders and teams

·       Demonstrated experience to act independently and make decisions that achieve optimal results with minimal supervision

35%

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

·       Able to establish and manage stakeholder relationships.

·       Able to communicate in business language and with technology expertise

·       Experience leading teams composed of fee-for-service members and unionized staff members.

·       Able to appropriately assign work packages to assigned resources and manage to ensure timely and quality delivery.

·       Able to build a cohesive, high performing project teams

20%

If you are available, please send your resume to prachi.bhardwaj@2iresourcing.ca OR  refer someone interested.