Intermediate Project Manager/Leader

isgSearch; Old Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Intermediate Project Manager/Leader to oversee complex projects in a hybrid work environment. This role demands a proactive leader who excels in managing project budgets, schedules, and stakeholder relationships. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in agile methodologies, particularly Scrum and Kanban, to drive project success while ensuring compliance with established standards. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will contribute to impactful projects that shape the future of technology initiatives in the public sector. If you are passionate about project management and thrive in a collaborative setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading agile projects using Scrum and Kanban.
• 6+ years managing project budgets and schedules effectively.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement and conflict resolution.

Responsibilities

• Manage large-scale, high-risk projects ensuring timely deliverables.
• Develop and monitor project budgets, ensuring fiscal accountability.
• Identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies for stakeholders.

Skills

Project Management

Agile Methodologies

Scrum

Kanban

Budget Management

Risk Management

Stakeholder Management

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

Conflict Resolution

Job description

Intermediate Project Manager/Leader (BBBH10848) Toronto, Canada

3 month term, hybrid downtown Toronto days per week.

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, 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' 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 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.

Must Haves:

• 4 years' experience leading pragmatic and actionable agile projects, leveraging Scrum and Kanban.
• 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.

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