Project Manager

Job ID: 603

Position Type: Non-Union Permanent

Department: Strategy, Project Management & Change

Salary Grade: M16 ($100,540 - $130,128)

For the second year in a row, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) is proud to be recognized as one of  Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2024 .  As a top tier regulatory agency, we are passionate about the environment and motivated by our want to enable innovation within the energy sector. We are committed to the economic and social development of Ontario and work every single day to deliver public value to Ontarians. We are a diverse, driven, transparent and thoughtful team, and are accountable to each other, the sector, and the customers we serve.

Empowering Ontario’s energy future we are the Ontario Energy Board.

Overview

The Department is accountable for organizational planning, project management and portfolio governance. The Strategy, Project Management & Change Office is responsible for establishing, implementing, and governing effective new enterprise change management practices.

Under the direction of the Director, the Project Manager’s role is to lead, oversee and ensure the successful delivery and management of single or multiple projects, throughout the OEB, with a focus on HR strategic projects. The project manager must do this within scope, to a certain quality, and within time and cost constraints. These factors may be clearly defined or may require dynamic change management to deliver business value.

Responsibilities

• Implement and coordinate the Ontario Energy Board project management program by promoting, educating stakeholders, and delivering defined processes and templates.
• Ensure all projects are following the Project Management Framework and support them in the Change Management Framework as applicable.
• Monitor and guide projects in the Corporate Portfolio through the phases of the projects’ lifecycle.
• Review all project business cases, scope documents and plan summaries for completeness and measurable project goals.
• Analyze project proposals to determine time frame, funding limitations and appropriate process for accomplishing projects.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
• Assign duties and responsibilities to project personnel and define the scope of their authority.
• Perform risk assessment and implement mitigation plans.
• Partner with HR Division in providing project management support on confidential labour relations matters, other related HR Projects of a sensitive and confidential nature.
• Develop procedures and coordinate responses to correspondence and action requests, ensuring that OEB policies, positions and timelines are observed.
  
  

Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Information Technology, Finance, Economics, or related discipline.
• 5 years’ experience working in project management applying project management methodologies, influencing and negotiating with project stakeholders.
• 5 years’ experience working in project management, applying project management methodologies in a similar environment, and working in a regulated industry or public utility setting. Prefer Project Management certification (PMP/Prince 2)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, Project for the Web)
  
  

Pursuant to the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, the Ontario Energy Board will make reasonable efforts to provide accommodation to candidates with disabilities in the course of the recruitment process upon written request. We request that candidates seeking accommodation identify their particular accommodation needs as soon as possible in the job selection process. Questions concerning the availability of accommodation in the recruitment process may be forwarded by email to  [email protected] .