Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Job Description: RQ08674 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Submission Closing: Feb 10 11am

Start Date: 2025-04-01

End Date: 2026-03-31

Assignment type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Job Title: Project Manager/Leader

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 foc

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

General Skills

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements 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
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• 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.
• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client s business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined
• Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches
• Knowledge and experience with a wide range of methods, techniques and tools for business architecture such as, but not limited to: business functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, business event modeling, business process mapping, value chain analysis, and other related disciplines;
• Successfully completed business architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations;

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
• Experience in structured, object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice

Must Have:

• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Experience utilizing, managing and understanding various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum and scalable minimum viable products.
• Experience providing executive reports, presentations and implementation plans

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge and experience of the Registry system (ex. Catalyst).
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem- solving skills

Project Lead Experience 35%

• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Experience utilizing, managing and understanding various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum and scalable minimum viable products.
• Experience with I&IT technology deployment
• Experience leading, facilitating and initiating large-scale technology infrastructure procurements.
• Experience in defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering the initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables as needed.

Business Analysis experience 25%

• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Experience in structured, object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements

Business Architecture experience 10%

• Knowledge of Zachman Framework including business / information / application / technology / security architectures
• Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables / artefacts (e.g. models) based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice

Communication 20%

• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem- solving skills;
• Effective stakeholder management skills
• Experience providing executive reports, presentations and implementation plans

Public Service Experience - 10%

• Understanding of government environments
• Prior experience working on: the ONBIS Modernization Project, Ontario Business Registry Project, Private Security and Investigative Services (PSIS) project, ServiceOntario account for Business

Supplier Comments

Closing Time/Date: 2025-02-10, 11:00 a.m. EST

Max submission: 1 (one)

Hybrid: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote

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