Responsibilities:
- The Program Manager will be key a member of the Offensive Security & Risk Advisory Branch leading the program oversight for critical value asset assessments cyber maturity framework and cyber control tower project. They will also lead and help develop the Project Review Committee practices across the Cyber Security Division.
The Sr. Program Manager will:
- Provide program oversight on critical value asset assessment cyber maturity framework and cyber control tower initiatives.
- Provide Project Review Committee leadership across Cyber Security Division to ensure proper tracking and reporting of work efforts aligned with committed strategic priorities.
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 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:
Skill Set Requirements:
Strategic Planning:
- 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
- Facilitating Group Discussion
- Creating Mission/Vision Statements
- Engaging Reluctant Members in Discussions
- Negotiation
- People Skills
- Persuasiveness
- Pitching
- Public Speaking
- Presentation / MS PowerPoint
- Active Listening
- Building Consensus
- Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects
- Creating and Enforcing Timelines
- Prioritizing
- Goal Oriented
- Aligning Business Practices with Emerging Strategy
- Assessment
- Brainstorming
- Creativity
- Evaluation
- Identifying Obstacles
- Problem Sensitivity
- Multitasking
- Stress Tolerance
Agile Project Delivery:
- Experience working on agile project delivery teams
- Working Experience with:
- Backlog
- User Stories
- Scrum
- Sprints
Experience and Skill Set Requirements: Skill Set Requirements: Strategic Planning: Analytical: 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: 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: Building Consensus Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects Creating and Enforcing Timelines Prioritizing Goal Oriented Problem Solving; Aligning Business Practices with Emerging Strategy Assessment Brainstorming Creativity Evaluation Identifying Obstacles Problem Sensitivity Multitasking Stress Tolerance Agile Project Delivery: Experience working on agile project delivery teams Working Experience with: Backlog User Stories Scrum Sprints