Responsibilities:

• 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.
  

RequirementsExperience and Skill Set Requirements

Must Have Skills:

• Experience leading technical teams to perform technical analysis , design, and implementation for entire project lifecycle
  
• In-depth knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 upgrades: PUM and PeopleTools
  
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 suite with respect to Fluid and Classic Plus user interface
  
• Experience supporting system integration and user acceptance testing from technical perspectives
  
• Digital First approach to adopting digital processes using PeopleSoft HCM
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills
  
• Knowledge of Single Sign-on authentication using Azure AD for PeopleSof HCM
  

General Skills:

• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  
• 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 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.
  
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
  
• 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.
  

Desirable Skills:

• 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