RQ11651 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

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%

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