RQ11582 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Source Code; Toronto; On-site; CAD 134,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Source Code in Toronto is seeking a Project Manager/Leader for a 6‑month onsite assignment at 222 Jarvis Street. The role focuses on delivering large-scale OPS I&T projects within scope, time, and budget, applying standard project management methodologies.

You will lead diverse teams, coordinate with ministries, manage budgets, forecast costs, and report to senior executives. An extension is possible; strong stakeholder management and risk mitigation are essential.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive project management experience on large, complex government initiatives.
• Ability to manage budgets and forecasts with tracking and reporting.
• Experience coordinating with multiple ministries and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of OPS I&T standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk OPS I&T initiatives.
• Ensure deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time, scope and budget, with cost-effectiveness and compliance with OPS methodologies.
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and funding requests.
• Develop detailed project schedules and integrated plans; monitor costs and provide forecasts and status reports.
• On-board team members, clarify roles and responsibilities, and manage resources, including unionized staff and consultants.
• Develop budgets across multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies; ensure fiscal control and accountability.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Stakeholder comms

Risk management

Team leadership

PM methodologies

Resource management

Change management

Cross-ministry coordination

Strategic planning

Job description

RQ11582 - Project Manager/Leader

Duration: 6 Months (152 Business Days) + 1 Possible Extension

Location: 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto

Onsite

No Security Clearance

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

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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $96.65/hr - $115.99/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $77.32/hr - $92.79/hr T4