RQ08538 - Project Manager/Leader – Junior
Client: Ministry of Solicitor General
Period: 12 months
Start Date: 2025-04-01
End Date: 2026-03-31
Working Hrs.: 7.25 Hrs. / day
Location: 21 College Street, Toronto/200 First Ave W, North Bay
Hybrid - Candidate must be able to work 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
NOTE: This position is currently listed as "Onsite"; however, the Assignment under this request will provisionally be "Hybrid”, working 7.25 hours per calendar day, sometime between 8:00-5:00 PM (excluding lunch breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive, unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Manager's requirements for the Project you are assigned to.
NOTE: OPP-2 Security Clearances could take approximately 10 weeks to process.
Must Have:

• At least 2 years of experience in project management and direct experience applying all phases (concept, definition, planning, implementation, and closeout) of fundamental project management concepts, practices, and procedures to a large-scale, complex, high-value projects to meet critical timelines.
• Demonstrated experience in managing or contributing to the advancement of large-scale public safety radio infrastructure projects.
• Strong communications skills, both written and verbal. Able to succinctly articulate key project information in a politically astute manner.
• Experience building reports to support decision-making on project scope, schedule, cost

Description
Criteria Ratings MUST TOTAL 100
Project Management Skills
35 points
• Knowledge of, and direct experience applying all phases (concept, definition, planning, implementation, and closeout) of fundamental project management concepts, practices, and procedures to a large-scale, complex, high-value projects in order to meet critical timelines.
• Able to work effectively on concurrent tasks, while also building capacity and supporting the project team.
• A professional who can work with minimal direction and perform project management work that is varied and involves complexity.
• Ability to apply and interpret business rules and concepts in daily work.
• Experience creating various levels of reports (e.g. executive, summary, status, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience supporting meetings, preparing and distributing project updates and materials, taking minutes/ action items, maintaining progress reports, documenting risk mitigations, recommendations, etc.
• Ability to support vendor management and commitments, provide oversight to ensure contractual obligations are met.
• Reasonable knowledge of industry standards and methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks, providing options analysis, and recommending action plans to mitigate the risks.
• Demonstrated experience with standard project management tools, such as, MS Project, Clarity/Planview, Visio, MS Office Suite, SharePoint, PowerBI or equivalents.
• Experience creating and maintaining project management artefacts/project collaterals, such as, meeting minutes, project plans, briefing notes, change requests.
• Experience working with both the business users and technology / infrastructure teams.
• Strong planning and time management skills with a focus on attention to detail.
Communication and Relationship Management
25 points
• Strong communications skills, both written and verbal. Able to succinctly articulate key project information in a politically astute manner.
• A team player with the ability to support multiple tasks.
• Able to build relationships with project partners, establish trust, and establish a common/ shared goal through effective facilitation, consultation, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience creating documentation that is both complete and accurate.
• Experience developing and presenting risk and issue status, progress status reports, dashboards, email communications, etc.
• Strong facilitation, interpersonal, and consultative skills.
• Good problem-solving and organizational skills, and awareness of emerging technology trends.
• Demonstrated experience to act with minimal supervision.
• Detail oriented and strong multitasking abilities in order to juggle multiple client demands.
Telecommunications and radio network experience in a large public sector entity
20 points
• Demonstrated experience working on/ in public safety radio and/or the telecommunications and / or IT infrastructure field.
• Experience working on related large and complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience of working with multiple stakeholders in a broader public sector (BPS) environment.
• Experience of projects involving, network design, network implementation, civil structures, user equipment distribution and operations.
• Knowledge and experience both in strategic and operational public sector governance models, experience managing complex, multi-unit, multi-stakeholder, and multiple levels of public sector executive stakeholder project team.
• Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities.
Analytical and Problem Solving
20 points
• Ability to proactively identify risks, issues, or problems, gather relevant information, perform analysis, develop options and recommendations to share with the project team.
• Experience building reports to support decision-making on project scope, schedule, cost.
• Accurately document issues, gaps, and inconsistencies when they happen and develop strategies/ mitigations/ lessons learned.
• Utilize judgement to explore cross team/ project opportunities for improvement.
Knowledge Transfer
• Completed Deliverables details.
• Processes used for Developing deliverables.
• Artifacts collected.
• Project Manager / Team members.