RQ11582 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Leader to oversee large-scale OPS I&T projects in Toronto, Ontario. You will drive timelines, budgets, and scope while coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholder groups.

This role requires 7–10 years of experience in project management within the public sector and a strong grasp of governance and compliance frameworks. The successful candidate will lead complex initiatives, align resources, and ensure on-time delivery within budget, while

Qualifications

• Must have strong Project Management experience.
• Must have Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills.
• Strong Documentation Skills.
• Public Sector Experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk OPS I&IT initiatives.
• Ensures deliverables meet business requirements on time, scope and budget, ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance with methodologies.
• Leads organizational development, strategy development, and business planning.
• Gathers requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and integrated plan.
• Monitors and forecasts project costs and provides reporting to meet targets.
• Manages project budgets and ensures fiscal control and accountability.
• Directs project teams to ensure deliverables are on time and compliant with standards.
• Identifies risks and issues and develops mitigation strategies.

Skills

Strategic planning

Requirements gathering

Cost forecasting

Team leadership

Budgeting

Risk management

Executive communication

Job description

RQ11582 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Posted On 17/09/2026

Job Information

Term 152 days

Technology

Number of Positions 1

Work Experience 7-10 Years

City Toronto

State/Province Ontario

M4C

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 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
  
• 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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Project Management
  
• Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills
  
• Documentation Skills
  
• Public Sector Experience
  

Skill Set Requirements:

• Project Management
  
• Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills