Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate (Toronto)

Assignment

Assignment: RQ00703 – Project Manager/Leader – IntermediateRequisition: RQ00703Job Title: Project Manager/Leader – IntermediateClient: City of TorontoStart Date: 2026‑08‑04End Date: 2027‑02‑03Department: Technology ServicesOffice Location: Metro Hall, 55 John Street, TorontoBusiness Days: 130.00Location: Hybrid work model – 3 days in office (anchor days: Mondays and Wednesdays)

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage enterprise‑level transformation projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, business needs, and industry best practices.
• Oversee all aspects of assigned projects, including project charter development, detailed planning and scheduling, budgeting, risk and issue management, resource allocation, quality assurance, and stakeholder engagement.
• Prepare, review, and execute key contractual documents (REOI, RFI, RFP, RFQ, SOW, MOU, SLA) and ensure compliance with procurement and financial policies.
• Drive procurement processes for technology software solutions, including development of procurement strategies, request for proposals, vendor evaluations, and contract negotiations.
• Develop and manage project budgets, ensuring financial controls, forecasting, and adherence to corporate financial policies and procedures.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks while ensuring timely resolution of issues that may impact project success.
• Establish and maintain effective partnerships with executive stakeholders, business units, IT teams, vendors, consultants, and cross‑functional teams.
• Direct teams of technical staff, client representatives, contractors, consultants, and vendors to execute project plans effectively and deliver results within scope, time, and budget constraints.
• Supervise and provide leadership to project teams, including workload management, performance oversight, and professional development initiatives.
• Develop and execute change management strategies to ensure smooth adoption of new technologies and business processes across the organization.
• Define and implement best practices, governance frameworks, and project management methodologies aligned with PMI standards and the organization’s strategic priorities.
• Manage vendor relationships and performance, ensuring service level agreements are met, deliverables are achieved, and continuous improvements are realized.
• Negotiate and document project scope changes, ensuring transparency in impacts on budget, timelines, and resources.
• Provide executive‑level reporting on project progress, financial performance, risk exposure, and strategic alignment.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior management, educating and influencing decision‑making related to technology solutions, innovation, and digital transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Post‑secondary education in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required.
• Extensive experience managing all aspects of transformational enterprise‑wide IT projects in complex multi‑departmental environments, including budget and timeline management, scope management, estimating and managing project resources, risk management, issues management, organizational change management, timely decision making, critical path identification, business transformation, data transformation/migration, and user experience optimization.
• Considerable experience with contract negotiations, procurement procedures, vendor and contract management.
• Experience working in a matrix project management environment using tools such as Microsoft Enterprise Project Management, SharePoint, or other equivalent project schedule and document management tools.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification considered an asset.
• Experience managing a project focused on a large technology procurement.
• Knowledge of using project management tools for planning and implementing complex projects and packages.
• Ability to manage large‑scale multi‑divisional technology projects.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including ability to effectively communicate project status to multiple streams of executive and senior management, business, and technical stakeholders.
• Excellent people‑management skills and experience working with and managing technical project teams in application development and implementation of infrastructure solutions.

Deliverables

• Standard project management reporting tools.
• Project plans.
• Status reports.
• Presentation decks for executive leadership when required.
• Support for EARB and CAB meetings and activities.
• Other project artifacts as needed.

Terms

• Anticipated duration: 6 months.
• Duration of potential extension: 6 months.
• Hybrid work model – 3 days in office (anchor days: Mondays and Wednesdays).