Responsibilities:

• Provide project management for the Immunization Repository Consolidation – a large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk OPS I&IT initiative
  
• Ensure 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
  
• Interact with senior staff within the ministry and with external partners and manage relationships
  
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and ministry funding requests.
  
• Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
  
• Identify 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
  
• Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members so that project objectives and deliverables are met
  
• Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies
  
• Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
  
• Use ministry project management tools for recording and reporting project/program data
  
• Participate in team meetings
  
• Create/update Integrated Project Management Plan (IPP), adjust and update IPP as per change requests
  
• Perform reviews of schedule, variance analysis, adjust leads and lags, and revise schedule
  
• Manage and monitor project progress, critical path activities, and report on slippage
  
• Create overall project status and project progress reports for project executives and stakeholders
  
• Identify and manage issues, review issue status, and produce issue logs
  
• Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed
  
• Articulate and prioritize issues and risks at senior executive levels, and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers
  
• Review change requests, and prepare change requests report to be reviewed by Change Control Board, and adjust integrated project plan accordingly
  
• Prepare business transformation and adoption plans
  
• Create and provide knowledge transfer documentation as part of the knowledge transfer plan
  
• Establish and participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums
  
• Provide project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
  
• Use 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
  
• Promote 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
  
• Adopt and adhere to OPS Unified I&IT Project Methodology, OPS/e-Health Ontario Gating process
  
• Be a demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
  

MUST HAVES:

• Knowledge and experience with designing eHealth solutions and business processes to meet Ontario's privacy legislation requirements
  
• Demonstrated experience in vendor and contract management, handling and escalating vendor issues promptly to avoid delays.
  
• Experience with project management software such as MS Project, Planview, Jira, and Confluence
  
• Experience in managing projects using Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies for the analysis, design, development and implementation of applications in large complex environments
  
• Project management experience leading and planning complex, mission critical projects or initiatives involving business transformation, and design, development and implementation of IT Health-related solutions