RQ10065 - Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

Source Code; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable consulting firm in Toronto is looking for an experienced Project Manager/Leader to oversee large-scale IT projects. The role involves ensuring projects meet business requirements while focusing on cost-effectiveness and compliance with governmental standards. Candidates must have extensive experience in stakeholder management and project budgeting. This is a 1-year onsite contract position located at 222 Jarvis Street, facilitating a dynamic work environment for qualified professionals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience, especially in I&IT initiatives.
• Proven track record in managing large-scale projects.
• Experience in stakeholder management and government standards.

Responsibilities

• Provides project management on high-profile projects.
• Ensures deliverables meet business requirements.
• Develops complex project budgets and manages fiscal control.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project management best practices

Budget management

Risk identification

Team leadership

Job description

RQ10065 - Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

ONSITE -222 Jarvis Street

1-year contract

1 Opening - 1 Submission

Central Agencies Cluster - Ministry of Treasury Board Secretariat

Security Level: CRJMC

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.

MUST-HAVE'S

• 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.
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Provides stakeholder management to multiple internal IT groups, Ministries and Vendors

Nice-to-Have's

• AODA