Role: Project Manager
Client: Ontario Government
Job Type: Contract
Term: 12 Months
Workplace Type: Hybrid / Onsite
Pay Rate: Negotiable
Start date: 2-3 weeks
Location: Toronto, ON
Language: English
Clearance: N/A
ATS ID #: 10065
Requirements: What you'll need
Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:
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.
Project Planning and Management:
- Develops/manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Provides management/leadership to project teams, external service providers/vendors through all phases of projects; plans, coordinates and assigns work based on established priorities.
- Manages and coordinates project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and improves project effectiveness.
- Promotes I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
- Manages, coordinates, supports and/or assists in the planning, development, preparation of planning documents and submissions, including MB20's or RBP products related to I&IT projects or with an I&IT component; monitors and forecasts project costs and provides reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
- Works with project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and meet government and ministry standards
- Provides assistance in planning, development, production and approval of Terms of Reference and Project Charter processes, documents and deliverables.
- Coordinates and monitors project processes, and develops/communicates guidelines and procedures.
- Identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas; develops responses for review
IT Solutions Development:
- Manages, controls, and coordinates all project-related systems and procedures, including technology infrastructure change, transition and implementation.
- Makes recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, technology resources.
MUST HAVES:
- 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
PREFERRED SKILLS
PMBOK + Risk Mitigation + AODA + Solution Development + Project Planning + Project Charters
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