RQ11651 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

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

Job summary

Flexstaf IT in Toronto seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead large, complex OPS I&T initiatives, ensuring alignment with business requirements and governance.

You will manage costs, schedules, risks, and cross-ministry dependencies while promoting best practices and delivering on time and budget. The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, executive reporting, and fiscal discipline.

Qualifications

• Experience with direct/indirect cost allocation and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Comprehends cloud pricing models (AWS/Azure), software licensing, and hardware depreciation.
• Experience building dynamic simulation workflows, scenario analysis frameworks, and variance tracking.
• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.

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.

Skills

Cost allocation & TCO

Cloud pricing (AWS/Azure)

Scenario analysis

Ministry funding requests

Project scheduling

Budget forecasting

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

OPS/I&IT governance

Job description

Must Have:

• Experience with direct/indirect cost allocation and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Comprehends cloud pricing models (AWS/Azure), software licensing, and hardware depreciation.
• Experience building dynamic simulation workflows, scenario analysis frameworks, and variance tracking.
• leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope

Nice to have:

OPS or public sector exp.

Experience and Skill Set 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:

• Experience with direct/indirect cost allocation and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Comprehends cloud pricing models (AWS/Azure), software licensing, and hardware depreciation.

Experience building dynamic simulation workflows, scenario analysis frameworks, and variance tracking and 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

Evaluation criteria:

• Project Management - 35%
• Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills - 35%
• Documentation Skills - 20%
• Public Sector Experience - 10%