Project Manager - Senior

Project Manager/Leader

Client: Government Services Integration Cluster

Location:222 Jarvis St. – Onsite

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager/Leader to lead the Immunization Repository Consolidation initiative, a large-scale, complex, and high-profile healthcare transformation project within the Ontario Public Sector. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the full project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery of project objectives while maintaining compliance with public sector standards, methodologies, governance frameworks, and Digital Health requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage large-scale healthcare and digital health transformation projects from initiation through implementation and closeout.
  
• Develop, maintain, and manage project deliverables including Project Charter, Integrated Project Management Plan (IPP), project schedules, status reports, risk registers, issue logs, change requests, and project closure documentation.
  
• Gather business and technical requirements and translate them into detailed project plans, schedules, timelines, resource plans, and integrated delivery strategies.
  
• Manage project scope, budget, schedule, resources, quality, risks, issues, and dependencies to ensure successful project outcomes.
  
• Collaborate with clinicians, healthcare stakeholders, business partners, executives, vendors, and cross-functional teams to define and deliver project objectives.
  
• Establish project governance structures and provide regular reporting to steering committees, executive sponsors, and senior stakeholders.
  
• Monitor project progress, critical path activities, milestones, and deliverables while proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
  
• Lead change management, business transformation, adoption readiness, training, communications, testing, and transition-to-operations activities.
  
• Manage project financials, including budgeting, forecasting, reconciliation, resource allocations, and reporting using Planview and other project management tools.
  
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement, conflict resolution, decision-making, and issue escalation processes.
  
• Ensure compliance with OPS Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture standards, GO-ITS standards, Digital Health standards, and ministry governance requirements.
  
• Coordinate integrated project delivery across multiple teams, ministries, and external partners.
  
• Support knowledge transfer activities and ensure operational readiness for future support models.
  

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience working with federal, provincial, or broader public-sector healthcare organizations.
  
• Proven experience leading large, complex I&IT transformation projects with significant stakeholder engagement and organizational impact.
  
• Demonstrated experience working with clinicians and healthcare sector stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver technology solutions in clinical environments.
  
• Strong knowledge of Ontario Public Sector project governance, approval processes, Enterprise Architecture frameworks, and healthcare technology environments.
  
• Experience managing healthcare-related application development, implementation, and modernization initiatives.
  
• Extensive experience managing project budgets, schedules, risks, issues, resources, and cross-functional teams.
  
• Expertise in Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
  
• Hands-on experience with project management tools including MS Project, Planview, Jira, and Confluence.
  
• Strong understanding of information management, cybersecurity, access control, authentication, and healthcare data management principles.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with eHealth Ontario and Digital Health initiatives.
  
• Knowledge of GO-ITS standards and Public Sector Gating processes.
  
• PMI/PMP certification or equivalent project management credentials.
  
• Experience leading business transformation, organizational change management, and adoption readiness initiatives.
  
• Experience managing integrated programs with multiple dependencies and stakeholders.
  

Core Competencies

• Project and Program Management
  
• Healthcare Technology Delivery
  
• Stakeholder and Executive Management
  
• Risk and Issue Management
  
• Budget and Financial Management
  
• Change Management and Business Transformation
  
• Governance and Compliance
  
• Agile and Waterfall Delivery
  
• Strategic Planning and Execution
  
• Team Leadership and Collaboration
  
• Communication and Presentation Skills
  
• Vendor and Partner Management
  

Work Arrangement

• Onsite role requiring attendance five days per week.
  
• Standard working hours between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
  
• Opportunity to contribute to a high-impact healthcare modernization initiative supporting public health services across Ontario.