Project Manager 0312-1516

Foilcon; Central Ontario; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services firm is seeking an IT Project Manager in Orillia, Ontario. This remote contract role involves managing complex, high-profile projects for government initiatives. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in project management, documentation writing, and process optimization. Public sector experience is mandatory. This position requires occasional onsite meetings.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' IT Project Manager experience, leading projects.
• 5+ years' experience writing project documentation.
• 5+ years' experience in process optimization.

Responsibilities

• Provides project management on large scale projects.
• Ensures project deliverables meet business requirements on time.
• Leads organizational and strategy development.

Skills

Process coordination

Client relationship management

Project documentation

Project scheduling

Risk management

Job description

Overview

This remote contract role requires onsite for occasional meetings. Candidates must reside in Ontario, Canada. The candidate's resume must include first and last name.

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, within scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills

• 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 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 to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting to ensure targets are met.
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
• Directs project teams to ensure deliverables are 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; clarifies roles and responsibilities and sets task/deliverable/performance expectations for OPS unionized employees and fee-for-service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, and ensures knowledge is shared among team members.
• 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.
• Utilizes strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and to capitalize on forces in support of change during all project stages – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.

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 Disabilities 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, anticipating and troubleshooting issues, providing ongoing expertise, resolving problems and improving project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflicts between project and functional areas and develop responses to address them
• Ability to manage client relationships to manage expectations and provide updates as required
• Ability to manage multiple streams of work
• Operate in a fast-paced project with many external dependencies
• Ability to pivot as required while prioritizing/triaging tasks and communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders

Must Haves

• 5+ years' IT Project Manager experience, leading projects
• 5+ years' experience writing project documentation
• 5+ years' experience in process optimization

Public Sector Experience: Broader Public Sector required