RQ10355 - 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 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.
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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 \- 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 Skill Set Requirements
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      1. Technology Leadership 25%
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      • 1.1. 10+ years experience in technology project management, at least 5+ years must include projects that required large technology procurements. 
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      • 1.2. Demonstrated experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain project schedules and integrated plans. 
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      • 1.3. Demonstrated experience using the agile \/ scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and\/or stakeholders in order to ensure success. 
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      • 1.4. Demonstrated experience scheduling and facilitating agile \/ scrum events including but not limited to backlog management, sprint planning, daily stand\-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives. 
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      • 1.5. Demonstrated experience with identifying and defining architectural requirements. 
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      • 1.6. Demonstrated experience with change management. 
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      • 1.7. Demonstrated experience identifying risks and providing proper mitigation strategies. 
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      • 1.8. Demonstrated experience managing the implementation of application, infrastructure or migration activities. 
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      • 1.9. Experience with Change Management and Release Management as processes supporting the implementation of large enterprise applications. 
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      • 1.10. Experience with ITIL processes such as Service Level Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, and Capacity Management. 
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        2. Technology Experience 25% 
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        • 2.1. Demonstrated experience with the design of new enterprise and application layers 
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        • 2.2. Ability to define, identify and describe information architectural requirements with clients 
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        • 2.3. Demonstrated experience with common, consistent, shareable, re\-usable and extensible data structures 
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        • 2.4. Knowledge of application and infrastructure design 
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        • 2.5. 5+ years of experience with quality control and assurance methodologies and practices as applied to the implementation of large applications 
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        • 2.6 Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal, WebSphere, DataPower, OpenShift, Cloud Automation Manager, Ansible and Oracle Database. 
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        • 2.7 Experience managing enterprise solutions with application Software such as Urban Code, Velocity, Cognos, Informatica and IBM APIC 
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          3. Vendor Management Experience 25%
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          • 3.1. Demonstrated experience managing large procurements, i.e. procurements resulting in multi\-year contract durations and total values over $2M 
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          • 3.2. Demonstrated experience with the full lifecycle of public procurements, including requirements development, Request for Bids (RFB) development, publishing, evaluation, contract award and vendor onboarding. 
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          • 3.3. Demonstrated experience working with and managing external vendor relationships. 
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          • 3.4. Demonstrated experience drafting SOW, Work orders and contract negotiations. 
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          • 3.5. Demonstrated vendor management experience in OPS \/ government setting, understanding of Procurement practices 
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            4. Stakeholder Management 25% 
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            • 4.1. Demonstrated experience effectively communicating with teams, clients, various stakeholders and senior Management. 
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            • 4.2. Demonstrated experience reporting on progress of deliverables, milestones, issues and risks to various audiences, including steering committees and formal status reporting. 
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            • 4.3. Demonstrated experience preparing documentation such as Presentations, other technical documentation\/deliverables (i.e. technical strategy document, option analysis) etc. 
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            • 4.4. Experience providing updates and advice to senior management. 
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            • 4.5. Experience presenting to executive steering committees responsible for project oversight and decision\-making. 
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              Must Have: <\/b>
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              • Experience working with the delivery of complex Cloud technology projects 
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              • Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal, WebSphere, DataPower, OpenShift, Cloud Automation Manager, Ansible and Oracle Database. 
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              • 10+ years experience in technology project management, at least 5+ years must include projects that required large technology procurements. 
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              • Demonstrated experience using the agile \/ scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and\/or stakeholders. 
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              • IT Service Management experience with ITIL Foundations certification 
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