Note: Hybrid 2-3 days a week onsite

Public Sector Experience: Preferred

Must Haves:

• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out and any required transition to operations, business planning, benefits identification and organization funding requests for I&IT programs.
• Experience providing a program/portfolio view of project inter-dependencies and external project dependencies, monitoring and reporting on exposure levels
• Experience directing stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building.
• Experience directing, managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams including multiple Project Managers, each responsible for an element of the project and associated matrix team members

Description

Responsibilities:

• Provide program management leadership and expertise of large scale, highly complex, high profile and high-risk initiatives that may be multi-jurisdictional and/or enterprise-wide.
• Ensure accountability for the programs centralized group of projects and their successful full life cycle delivery.
• Ensure programs are delivered cost effectively and efficiently, and in compliance with organization's methodologies, standards and frameworks.

General Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out and any required transition to operations, business planning, benefits identification and organization funding requests for I&IT programs.
• Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating I&IT executive expectations and translating into program deliverables
• Experience directing, managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams including multiple Project Managers, each responsible for an element of the project and associated matrix team members
• Experience monitoring and managing the cost, risk, schedule, governance, technical performance, and program impact of each of the component projects
• Experience providing a program/portfolio view of project inter-dependencies and external project dependencies, monitoring and reporting on exposure levels
• Exercises a range of leadership responsibilities including the role of coach and developer of talent
• Experience developing complex budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross organization dependencies.
• Experience analyzing program and organization's environments to identify potential risks and issues; articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to senior executives; recommends mitigation strategies to decision-makers to ensure projects are delivered on schedule
• Uses significant innovation in the planning, analysis and execution of tasks
• Experience directing stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building.
• Provides program, portfolio, and/or project reporting to multiple stakeholders
• Experience leading strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change
• Experience seeking new and unique business processes, technologies and products to benefit programs, portfolios and projects
• Experience supervising the development and communication of program related updates
• Experience building positive relationships within the team and external parties
• Experience contributing to improvements in life cycle based on lessons learned and past experience
• Adheres to organization?s standards and best practices for program
• Experience scheduling and organizing meetings/events and maintaining agenda
• Ensures technology is used correctly for all operations (video conferencing, presentations etc.).

Desirable Skills:

• Expert knowledge of PMLC
• Excellent communication & collaboration skills