Project Manager/Leader (RQ11582) Government Services Integration Cluster

Softline™ Technology Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Softline™ Technology Inc. seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead large-scale OPS I&IT initiatives. You will ensure deliverables align with business needs, on time and within budget, while coordinating across ministries and funding sources.

The role demands strong governance, stakeholder communication and adherence to government standards, with a focus on risk management and successful change implementation in a dynamic IT landscape.

Qualifications

• Project management on large-scale, complex, high-profile OPS I&T initiatives.
• Delivers project outcomes on time, within scope and budget per government standards.
• Promotes best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high risk projects for OPS I&T initiatives.
• Ensures deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget with focus on cost-effectiveness and compliance with OPS methodologies and frameworks.
• Gathers and develops requirements to create and maintain detailed schedules and integrated plans.
• Monitors and forecasts project costs and provides reporting to ensure targets are met.
• Develops budgets across multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies.
• Leads teams, clarifies roles, and sets performance expectations for OPS unionized staff and consultants.
• Provides project, program, and portfolio reporting to senior executives.

Skills

Organizational development

Strategy development

Business planning

Ministry funding requests

Requirements gathering

Project scheduling

Cost forecasting

Budget management

Risk management

Stakeholder reporting

Change management

Leadership

Resource management

Government standards

IT project management standards

Team onboarding

Conflict resolution

Steering committees

Project governance

Trend adaptation

Tools and methodologies

Job description

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 foc

Experience Requirements

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.
• Awareness / knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions
• Ability to adapt to changing trends, leverage emerging tools and methodologies, and effectively lead projects to success in today’s dynamic IT landscape

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s 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

Evaluation Criteria:

Project Management – 35%

Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills – 35%

Documentation Skills – 20%

Public Sector Experience – 10%

Closing Date/Time: 2026-09-23, 12:00 p.m. EST

Max submission: 1 (one)

5 days onsite

Please refer to Description and Requirements.