RQ10473 - Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

Responsibilities:
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• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
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• 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.
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  General Skills:

  
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  • Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
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  • Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and\/or integrated plan.
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  • Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
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  • Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
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  • Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
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  • Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
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  • Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing\/communicating guidelines and procedures.
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  • Sources, selects and onboards 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
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  • Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation\/confirmation of actuals.
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  • Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
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  • Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
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  • Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
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  • Provides, project, program, and\/or portfolio reporting to multi\-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
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  • Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects â€“ concept, definition, planning, implementation and close\-out.
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  • 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.
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    Desirable Skills:
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    • Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge.
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    • Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
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    • Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
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    • Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources.
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    • Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness.
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    • Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict.
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    • Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas.
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      Requirements <\/h3>

      Experience And SkillSet Requirements
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      Project Planning and Management \- 35%
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      • Develops\/manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
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      • Provides management\/leadership to project teams, external service providers\/vendors through all phases of projects; plans, coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.
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      • Manages and coordinates project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.
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      • Proven Experience in I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies. (Agile, Kanban etc)
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      • Managed Oracle Service Cloud Platform or any other similar products
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      • Manages, coordinates, supports and\/or assists in the planning, development, preparation of planning documents and submissions, including MB20's or RBP products related to I&IT projects or with an I&IT component; monitors and forecasts project costs and provides reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
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      • Works with project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and meet government and ministry standards.
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      • Provides assistance in planning, development, production and approval of Terms of Reference and Project Charter processes, documents and deliverables.
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      • Coordinates and monitors project processes, and develops\/communicates guidelines and procedures.
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      • Identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas; develops responses for review.
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      • Understands OPS Project Management Methodology (UPM)
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        IT Solutions Development \- 35%
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        • Manages, controls, and coordinates all project\-related systems and procedures, including technology infrastructure change, transition and implementation.
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        • Makes recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, technology resources.
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          MUST HAVES: <\/span>
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          • Managed Oracle Service Cloud Platform or any other similar products
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          • Provides management\/leadership to project teams, external service providers\/vendors through all phases of projects; plans, coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.
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          • Manages and coordinates project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.
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          • Proven Experience in I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies. (Agile, Kanban etc)
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