Project Manager (Intermediate) 7934-1713
Foilcon
Date: 1 week ago
City: Toronto, ON
Contract type: Full time
HM Note: This hybrid role is three (3) days in office
HM Note: this role will support the Project that the Change Management lead is supporting.
Responsibilities
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Project Management Skills - 35%
5+ years of Project Manager experience - strong Communication and Coordination, Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
Experience with driving forums, responsible for coordinating roll outs that are happening throughout project
Experience Communicating with stakeholder at senior executive levels - internally and externally
HM Note: this role will support the Project that the Change Management lead is supporting.
Responsibilities
- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet clientsâ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
- 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 unionized 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.
- 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 multi-stakeholders 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 â concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
- 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.
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Project Management Skills - 35%
- Experience in planning, organizing and implementing projects and reporting solutions
- Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
- Knowledge and understanding of Project Managementâs Instituteâs 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
- 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
- Familiarity with change management principles and methodology
- Experience working with the various modules of Planview Enterprise (e.g. intake, financial management, request management, resource management, strategic portfolio management, etc.)
- Experience providing both one-on-one and group training in an office setting
- Experience developing training materials such as job aid and user guides
- Experience creating electronic presentations (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills
- Strong relationship management skills with the ability to interact with different teams across the organization with ease and professionalism
- Strong communication skills with experience working in a team environment
5+ years of Project Manager experience - strong Communication and Coordination, Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
Experience with driving forums, responsible for coordinating roll outs that are happening throughout project
Experience Communicating with stakeholder at senior executive levels - internally and externally
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