Intermediate Project Manager/Leader

isgSearch; Old Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking an Intermediate Project Manager to lead high-profile projects in downtown Toronto. This exciting role involves overseeing complex initiatives, ensuring compliance with project management methodologies, and managing stakeholder expectations. You will be responsible for developing and managing project schedules and budgets while promoting best practices in project management. If you have a passion for leading projects and a proven track record in managing complex initiatives, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a dynamic team and make a significant impact in the realm of project management!

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in project management with a focus on cost and schedule.
• Ability to monitor project costs and deliverables effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage large scale, complex projects ensuring timely deliverables.
• Develop project budgets and mitigate risks proactively.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Budget Management

Risk Management

Conflict Resolution

Communication

Organizational Development

Information Management

Job description

Intermediate Project Manager/Leader (BBBH10847) Toronto, Canada

3 month contract, hybrid downtown Toronto, 2 days per week.

Job Title: Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

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 cost-effectiveness, 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 on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarifying roles and responsibilities and setting 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' 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.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management.
• 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.

Must Haves:

• 6 years' experience with the ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
• 6 years' experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
• 6 years' extensive experience coordinating, assuring and monitoring compliance to project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
• 6 years' experience in managing stakeholder expectations across a project lifecycle.

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