Project Manager

TEEMA; Central Ontario; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm based in Ontario is seeking a Project Manager to oversee project delivery and client relationships, especially in government environments. The ideal candidate will promote best practices, manage schedules, and ensure compliance with standards, while effectively leading project teams. Strong project management knowledge and experience in conflict resolution are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge.
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring.
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations.

Responsibilities

• Promote OPS I&IT standards for project management.
• Ensure deliverables meet business requirements on time.
• Source and onboard team members for projects.

Skills

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Risk Advisory

Process Coordination

Conflict Resolution

Job description

Job Title and Location

Job Title: Project Manager
Job ID: 80045
Location: Orillia, Ontario

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Process coordination and optimization.
• Client relationship management, with a particular focus on Gov’t/NGO/NPO, risk advisory, and consulting environments.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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
• Ability to manage multiple streams of work
• Operate in a fast-paced project with many of external dependencies
• Ability to pivot as required while prioritizing/triaging tasks and the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders

For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com