Project Manager/Leader

Cleo Consulting; Ontario; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleo Consulting is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Leader to oversee cybersecurity initiatives in Ontario. The role involves managing complex IT projects, leading teams, and ensuring the delivery of security solutions while fostering collaboration among stakeholders. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership, cybersecurity expertise, and exceptional communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience managing cybersecurity projects and knowledge of risk management frameworks like NIST.
• Ability to lead teams in implementing security controls.
• Proficiency in Identity & Access Management (IAM) and analytics on large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Lead various cybersecurity programs and coordinate with IT governance committees.
• Facilitate implementation of cyber controls and define necessary practices.
• Plan roadmaps for IAM platforms and address security risk mitigation.

Skills

Cyber Security

Leadership

Risk Management

Communication

Planning

Job description

Assignment: RQ09265 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior Job Title: Project Manager/Leader Requisition (SS): RQ09265 Start Date: 2025-07-21 Client: I&IT Strategy and Cyber Security End Date: 2026-03-31 Office Location: Toronto or Niagara Organization: I&IT Strategy and Cyber Security Extension # of Days: 246.00 Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement # Business Days: 173.00 Candidate is required to come in office 3 days a week

Must have:

• Cybersecurity Project Manager, the HM is not interested in a General PM
• Looking for someone who has worked with more than 30 people on a project.
• Strong Presentation and Communication Skills
• Identity and Access Management OR Cybersecurity Related Projects

Description

• To provide project leadership to various cyber security programs including Strengthening Cyber Defenses, Cyber Control Tower, Identity Access Management (IAM) Modernization, and Critical Value Assets. This role will also involve coordination with clusters and reporting on progress of cluster activities and reporting on progress to various IT governance committees as needed.
• The projects are all linked together - and the project leader will be leading the team that:
• Facilitates the implementation of cyber controls with the clusters, and helps clusters understand the purpose of the controls they need to implement to improve security.
• Can help define the practices that can feed data into the intelligence portals to help gain better insights into potential security vulnerabilities and anomalies in real-time.
• Plan out the roadmap for the enterprise Identity and Access Management platforms (IAM).
• Facilitate the process of addressing security risk and risk mitigation for the most critical application assets of the organization.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Cyber Security Skills and Leadership (30%)

• You knowledge and experience working in cyber security and managing cyber security projects.
• You have experience and knowledge about risk management frameworks for cyber security (i.e. NIST).
• You have experience and basic understanding of working with Identity & Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Analytics and Report on large data sets, and leverage modern reporting tools to help gain insights into potential security events.
• You can work with teams to lead and facilitate requirements definition with clients and stakeholders to define the right solution to meet their requirements.
• You can work with teams to help identify the organizational security policies to guide implementation of organization tools in alignment to security policy.

Project Management Skills (40%)

• You have skills to lead major, complex IT projects, direct teams of project staff and external consultants, and ensure project deliverables are delivered within specified parameters.
• You have experience in working on multiple, concurrent projects and multi-year projects.
• You can bring multiple teams together under multiple accountable organizations and work collaboratively to meet the expected outcomes and maintain accountability of the team members to meet their commitments.
• You have experience being flexible and adapting to change when those may occur within the projects.

Communication, Consultation and Interpersonal Skills (30%)

• You have effective communication skills to prepare reports and explain technical solutions to IT and non-technical stakeholders.
• You can work co-operatively with project team and external stakeholders to implementation of security controls, explain the purpose of those controls, and monitor and manage vendor contacts, and participate on various IT committees.
• You can effectively communicate with all stakeholders to ensure everyone has the same understanding of the status, the progress and the next steps of the initiatives.
• You are a team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.