Job Location: 87 Sir William Hearst Ave., Toronto, Ontario M3M 0B4 (Hybrid: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote)
Job Duration: Long-TermJob Description
Deliverables:
The resource will be responsible for performing the following activities and producing deliverables:
Provide leadership to high-performing teams of technical and business professionals in a matrix environment enabling agile approaches
Develop, monitor, and maintain project management-related artifacts
Ensure solutions are delivered and implemented according to established methodologies and meet clients' business requirements while remaining in line with budgets, schedules and scope
Coordinate stakeholders' engagement and consultation opportunities in establishing requirements and design.
Prepare and present various briefing materials and issues notes and other materials for decision making
Identify, manage and report on project risks and issues
Monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
Facilitate coordination of go-live/deployment activities.
Facilitate coordination of transition and change management plans.
Coordinate, monitor, report on the execution of communications, learning, and development, and corporate and field readiness across the province
Monitor post-go-live, document lessons learned, and complete project close-out report.
Communicate project progress clearly and timely to the management team
Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
Handle client relationships to manage expectations, provide updates as required, identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas and assist in conflict resolution
Skill Set Experience:
Experience as a Project Manager planning and managing large, complex, multi-year, multi-tier, multi-stakeholder projects
Experience working in programs consisting of multiple highly inter-dependent projects
Experience with the management of Third Party deliverable and acceptance processes
Experience in project delivery using Agile methodology
Experience and knowledge of project management tools
Experience in developing detailed project management documentation (e.g. project plan, project schedule, Work Breakdown Structure [WBS]), monitoring project performance and initiating corrective action)
Experience in developing, integrating and managing plans and schedules involving multiple teams and multiple 3rd party suppliers
Experience in complex business and IT issues management, including analyzing, problem- solving and coordination and facilitation of issue resolution in a timely fashion
Experience in the ongoing identification, monitoring, and management of Project risks, and the establishment and management of contingency plans
Experience in preparing reports and briefing materials for, and making presentations to, senior management
Proven ability to manage to successful completion an assignment of this nature, magnitude and complexity, and achieve the results on schedule and within budget while maintaining highest level of deliverables quality
Good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills; superior negotiating, mediating, and influencing skills; superior leadership and consulting skills, with demonstrated ability to work independently and in a team/multi-stakeholder enterprise environment; strong ability to mentor and coach and develop others
Expert skill with MS Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Visio
Experience with Creating Interactive Dashboards
Additional benefit if already certified as Scrum Master and has experience as scrum master
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal: clear and concise. Able to communicate concepts and details to clients, development team and testing team
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, decision-making and interpersonal skills
Skills Experience and Skill Set RequirementsEvaluation Criteria
Project Management - 40%
- 10+ years experience with Project Management
- Demonstrated experience, in establishing and optimizing project management methodologies
- Demonstrated experience with implementing solutions for large IT projects.
- Extensive experience developing and managing the full range of project management artifacts and plans
- Demonstrated experience identifying issues/risks and providing the proper mitigation
- Demonstrated experience in project resource and cost management
- Demonstrated experience in Agile delivery
- Demonstrated experience with change management.
- Demonstrated experience with managing 3rd party, vendors
Technical Experience - 30%
- Demonstrated experience with tools and techniques for planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling IT projects.
- Demonstrated experience planning and leading project activities during development/testing, UAT and Production.
- Demonstrated experience in preparing and presenting complex briefing materials
- Demonstrated experience producing a variety of business documents using MS Office applications
Communication Skills - 25%
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; oral and written communication skills; inter-personal and negotiation skills.
- Strong working experience in developing successful relationships with high level stakeholders including executives and managing 3rd party vendors.
Ontario Public Sector (OPS) Experience - 5%
- Experience with OPS Unified I & IT Project Methodology (UPM) and project gating processes would be an asset.
- Experience with OPS Architecture standards and Enterprise Architecture Review process.
Supplier CommentsClosing Time/Date: 2024-11-25, 12:00 p.m. EST
Max Submission: 1 (one)
Hybrid: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote
Must Haves:
- 10+ years' experience with Project Management
- Demonstrated experience in Agile delivery
- Demonstrated experience with implementing solutions for large IT projects (1+ budget and large teams).
- Experience with SDLC and PMLC
Nice to have:
Prior OPS experience.
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