Cleo Consulting -
16 Jobs
Toronto, ON
Assignment: RQ08226 - Project Manager/Leader Senior
Start Date: 2024-12-02
End Date: 2025-03-31
Office Location: 222 Jarvis Street, 5th Floor, Toronto, Ontario
Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (former MGCS)
# Business Days: 97.00
Extension # of Days: 07.00
Hybrid: 3 days onsite/ 2 days remote
Must Haves:
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Must Have Skills:
Start Date: 2024-12-02
End Date: 2025-03-31
Office Location: 222 Jarvis Street, 5th Floor, Toronto, Ontario
Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (former MGCS)
# Business Days: 97.00
Extension # of Days: 07.00
Hybrid: 3 days onsite/ 2 days remote
Must Haves:
- Implementation of PeopleSoft Fluid and Classic Plus user interfaces incl. activating new Self Service features and enabling Mobile capability
- Significant expertise and experience in PeopleSoft HCM application
- A hands on project manager who has lead multiple large ERP ($5M+) projects.
- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management's Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
- Knowledge of Microsoft DevOps to manage assigned tasks.
- Managing project deliverables and timelines, scope, resources/costing.
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with technical lead, vendor, other FFS resources and OPS resources working on the project to meet project milestones.
- Planning and coordinating with operational teams and providing knowledge transfer for sustainment.
- Preparing status reports and briefing project sponsors.
- Tracking and monitoring project-related issues and risks.
- Assist in planning oversight for upcoming database upgrades.
- Developing and overseeing implementation plan and schedules.
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Must Have Skills:
- Implementation of PeopleSoft Fluid and Classic Plus user interfaces incl. activating new Self Service features and enabling Mobile capability - 25%
- Significant expertise and experience in PeopleSoft HCM application - 25%
- A hands on project manager who has lead multiple large ERP ($5M+) projects 20%
- Experience working on Microsoft Azure cloud platform with RHEL/Windows OS and Oracle Database - 20%
- Experience working in a public sector environment - 10%
- Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
- Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
- 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.
- 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.
- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
- Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- 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.
- 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.