Apptad - Project ManagerLeader - Senior
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Job Title: Apptad Project Manager/Leader Senior
Job Location: 222 Jarvis St.toraTorontoOntario (Candidate needs to be in office 3 days in a week)
Job Duration: LongTerm
Job Location: 222 Jarvis St.toraTorontoOntario (Candidate needs to be in office 3 days in a week)
Job Duration: LongTerm
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Provides project management on large scale complex high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time scope and budget with a focus on costeffectiveness efficiencies and compliance with OPS 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 onboards 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.
- 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 multistakeholders 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 closeout.
- 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 Managements Institutes 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
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Price (30%)
Business Case and Project Documents (25%)
- Experience writing business cases including current state assessments establishing goals outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
- Experience creating project charters RACI establishing governance structures
- Experience creating project updates drafting and seeking approval on formal change requests and closeout reports
- Experience creating work breakdown structures and managing multiple implementation teams
- Experience creating process & service measures and indicators
- Experience writing business requirements background materials and drafting briefing materials.
- Experience completing intake and project initiation activities including creating project charters project outlines and business cases
- Experience completing detailed options analyses including feasibility assessments jurisdictional market and literature scans.
Project Planning and Delivery (30%)
- Ability to track and report on deliverables across multiple large scale complex projects
- Hands on technical experience leading agile teams while providing timely and easy to understand briefings for executives
- Experience implementing and running governance structures
- Experience with custom builds SaaS adoptions onboardings to enterprise systems
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring anticipates and troubleshoots issues provides ongoing expertise resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Experience planning and leading release management activities
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
- Ability to Create and track integrated project plans (including scope schedule and resources)
- Monitor and report on project progress through standups and weekly status updates
- Track project level Risks Issues Actions and Decisions and report it up to the program manager
- Create detailed iteration / sprint plans and manage sprint execution from kickoff through retrospective
- Experience providing onboarding and orientation of new staff / project resources
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle software design development and integration database concepts user interface design principle change management quality assurance risk management disaster recovery planning business continuity planning
Communications (15%)
- Strong communication skills to prepare documentation including but not limited to; reports reviews assessments
- Ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively and in a user friendly manner; maintain a high level of customer service to both internal and external clients
- Ability to communicate designs and development in clear and understandable manner
- Ability to effectively brief senior executives on project status risks complexities dependencies and issues.
Must have:
- 5 years of experience leading a technology development team
- 3 years of experience with Microsoft 365 Dynamic
Nice to have:
- Government experience
- Previous experience as a Business Analyst
Employment Type
Full Time
Key Skills
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