RQ07783 - Project ManagerLeader - Senior

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.
  
• 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:

• Experience leading projects involving Esribased geospatial solutions ArcGIS Portal ArcGIS Online ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Image Server GIS infrastructure middleware maintenance services applications databases monitoring and tools.
  
• Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies Microsoft Azure Oracle Spatial MS Fabric midrange server enterprise storage and personal computer system technologies.
  
• 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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 5 years as Project Manager
  
• Formal Project Management training
  
• Experience leading large technically complex projects
  
• Experience identifying issues risks setting out project timelines tracking managing and reporting progress
  
• Experience leading multidisciplinary projects with IT groups industry and business clients
  

Nice To haves:

• Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects e.g ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Project Management Experience:

• Formal Project Management training
  
• Experience leading large technically complex projects
  
• Experience identifying issues risks setting out project timelines tracking managing and reporting progress
  
• Experience leading multidisciplinary projects with IT groups industry and business clients
  

Communication Experience:

• Experience resolving conflict
  
• Experience communicating technical concepts to lay audiences
  
• Experience negotiating project direction to achieve consensus
  
• Experience coordinating Business Analysts and stakeholder engagement
  

Technical Experience:

• Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects e.g ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
  
• Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
  
• Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure
  

IT Public Sector Experience:

• Experience leading projects in the Land and Resources I&IT Cluster (LRC)
  
• Experience overseeing Digital First Assessments Cyber Security Architecture reviews and other corporate reviews from within the Ontario Government
  
• Experience coordinating the design and implementation of new IT solutions within the Ontario Government.