Project Manager 8940-0212

Foilcon; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT Services seeks a Project Manager for a hybrid contract role in Toronto. The position involves managing a large-scale immunization project, ensuring deliverables are met, and engaging with public sector stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in leading complex projects and familiarity with public sector standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in public sector healthcare projects.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure project deliverables meet clients' requirements on time and budget.
• Manage relationships with senior staff and external partners.
• Develop detailed project schedules and manage resources.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Problem-Solving

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Collaboration

Tools

MS Project

Planview

Jira

Confluence

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Description

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management for Immunization Repository Consolidation— a large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk OPS I&IT initiative
• Ensure 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
• Interact with senior staff within the ministry and with external partners and manage relationships
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and ministry funding requests.
• Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
• Identify 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
• Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members so that project objectives and deliverables are met
• Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies
• Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
• Use ministry project management tools for recording and reporting project/program data
• Participate in team meetings
• Create/update project artefacts such as: Charter, Integrated Project Management Plan (IPP), adjust and update IPP as per change requests, close out report
• Perform reviews of schedule, variance analysis, adjust leads and lags, and revise schedule
• Manage and monitor project progress, critical path activities, and report on slippage
• Create overall project status and project progress reports for project executives and stakeholders
• Identify and manage issues, review issue status, and produce issue logs
• Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed
• Articulate and prioritize issues and risks at senior executive levels, and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers
• Review change requests, and prepare change requests report to be reviewed by Change Control Board, and adjust integrated project plan accordingly
• Prepare business transformation and adoption plans, lead and plan testing activities and change management activities with the business and program
• Manage the transition to support and the future service model
• Create and provide knowledge transfer documentation as part of the knowledge transfer plan
• Participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• Provide project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
• Use 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
• Ensure that project financials are accurately reflected in the financial management system (Planview), and that all project information — including status, risks, and issues — is consistently and properly updated
• Promote 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
• Adopt and adhere to OPS Unified I&IT Project Methodology, OPS
• Be a demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Skills and Experience Requirements

Public Sector Experience: 5+ years working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers, familiarity with Public Sector Enterprise Architecture, industry standards like PMI, and experience with Public Sector /e-Health Ontario projects.

Technical Skills: 5-9 years experience with large-scale health IT projects, stakeholder engagement, project management tools (MS Project, Planview, Jira, Confluence), Agile & Waterfall methodologies, and project financial management.

Core Skills and Experience: 5-9 years leading complex projects, working with cross-functional teams, managing risks and issues, and implementing business transformation initiatives.

General Skills: Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and client management skills, with a focus on stakeholder engagement and team collaboration.

MUST HAVES: Experience leading integrated projects, managing interdependent initiatives, using Planview for financials, and leading business transformation and change management activities.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Project Management and IT

Industries: IT Services and Consulting