Job Description:

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for Government I&IT initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with Government project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills:

• 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 Government unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and interpersonal 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 Government 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.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

• Experienced in Product/Service design, development and delivery.
• Developing a Plan for Implementing Strategies.
• Public Speaking.
• Presentation / MS PowerPoint.
• Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects.

Strategic Planning - 85%:
Analytical - 20%:

• Attention to Detail.
• Calculating Costs for Implementation.
• Critical Thinking.
• Defining Mechanisms for Input.
• Defining Purpose of the Strategic Planning Process.
• Developing a Plan for Implementing Strategies.
• Logical Thinking.

Communication - 25%:

• Facilitating Group Discussion.
• Creating Mission/Vision Statements.
• Engaging Reluctant Members in Discussions.
• Negotiation.
• People Skills.
• Persuasiveness.
• Pitching.
• Public Speaking.
• Presentation / MS PowerPoint.
• Active Listening.

Decisiveness - 15%:

• Building Consensus.
• Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects.
• Creating and Enforcing Timelines.
• Prioritizing.
• Goal Oriented.

Problem Solving - 25%:

• Aligning Business Practices with Emerging Strategy.
• Assessment.
• Brainstorming.
• Creativity.
• Evaluation.
• Identifying Obstacles.
• Problem Sensitivity.
• Multitasking.
• Stress Tolerance.

Agile Project Delivery - 15%:

• Experience working on agile project delivery teams.
• Working Experience with: Backlog, User Stories, Scrum, Sprints.