Senior Project Manager / Project Leader – Senior

• Provide project management leadership for large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk OPS I&IT projects.
  
• Ensure project deliverables meet client business requirements on time, within scope, and within budget.
  
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain detailed project schedules and/or integrated project plans.
  
• Develop, manage, and monitor project schedules, deliverables, scope, dependencies, milestones, and timelines.
  
• Monitor and forecast project costs and provide financial reporting and input to ensure project targets are achieved.
  
• Develop and manage complex project budgets involving multiple funding channels and cross-Ministry dependencies.
  
• Maintain strong fiscal control and accountability, including estimates, forecasts, reconciliation, and confirmation of actual expenditures.
  
• Direct project teams and ensure deliverables are completed on time and in accordance with government and Ministry standards.
  
• Coordinate and monitor project processes and develop, maintain, and communicate project guidelines and procedures.
  
• Promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
  
• Source, select, and onboard project team members across various disciplines.
  
• Clearly define roles, responsibilities, tasks, deliverables, and performance expectations for both OPS unionized employees and fee-for-service (FFS) consultants.
  
• Resolve resource-related and interpersonal conflicts within project teams.
  
• Negotiate changes to project resourcing and resource assignments as required.
  
• Ensure knowledge is effectively shared among project team members to support achievement of project objectives and deliverables.
  
• Proactively identify potential project risks and issues before they occur and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
  
• Articulate and prioritize significant issues and risks at senior executive levels.
  
• Recommend mitigation and response strategies to senior decision makers.
  
• Establish and participate in steering committees, stakeholder forums, and governance activities.
  
• Provide project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multiple stakeholders at senior executive levels.
  
• Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain effective client relationships throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Identify and address potential conflicts between project and functional areas.
  
• Use appropriate change-management strategies to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces supporting change throughout all project stages, including:
  
• Concept
  
• Definition
  
• Planning
  
• Implementation
  
• Close-out
  
• Promote OPS I&IT standards and project management best practices to support:
  
• System quality
  
• Adherence to standard methodologies
  
• Effective control and utilization of I&IT resources
  
• Stay current with emerging I&IT trends, directions, tools, and methodologies.
  
• Adapt project management approaches to changing technology trends and leverage emerging tools and methodologies effectively.
  

Requirements

• Extensive experience managing large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk I&IT projects.
  
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and budgets.
  
• Proven ability to lead project teams and ensure successful delivery against established timelines, scope, budget, quality, and government/organizational standards.
  
• Experience applying formal project management methodologies, frameworks, standards, and best practices.
  
• Strong experience developing detailed project schedules and/or integrated project plans.
  
• Experience monitoring and forecasting project costs and providing project financial reporting.
  
• Experience developing and managing complex project budgets involving multiple funding sources and/or organizational dependencies.
  

• Demonstrated experience coordinating and monitoring complex project processes.
  
• Experience developing and communicating project guidelines, procedures, standards, and processes.
  
• Experience directing multidisciplinary project teams.
  
• Experience sourcing, selecting, onboarding, and managing project resources.
  
• Experience managing both internal/unionized employees and external/fee-for-service consultants is highly relevant.
  
• Demonstrated ability to manage resource changes and resolve resource and interpersonal conflicts.
  
• Strong understanding of project dependencies and cross-functional impacts.
  
• Experience proactively identifying project risks and issues and developing mitigation strategies.
  
• Experience presenting and escalating significant risks and issues to senior executives and decision makers.
  
• Experience establishing and participating in steering committees and stakeholder governance forums.
  
• Experience providing project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to senior-level stakeholders.
  

• Experience gathering and developing business and project requirements.
  
• Demonstrated ability to manage client relationships and stakeholder expectations.
  
• Experience communicating project status, risks, issues, dependencies, and recommendations to stakeholders.
  
• Ability to identify and resolve conflicts between project and functional areas.
  
• Strong negotiation, communication, coordination, and stakeholder-management skills.
  

• Demonstrated experience managing organizational change throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Ability to identify and address resistance to change.
  
• Ability to develop and implement strategies that support successful adoption of project changes.
  
• Experience supporting change from project concept and definition through planning, implementation, and close-out.
  

• Knowledge and understanding of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
  
• Ability to make recommendations regarding the acquisition of:
  
• Software
  
• Hardware
  
• Technology resources
  
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring activities.
  
• Ability to anticipate and troubleshoot project issues.
  
• Ability to provide ongoing project management expertise and resolve project problems.
  
• Experience assessing and improving project effectiveness.
  
• Ability to identify conflicts between project and functional areas and develop appropriate responses.
  
• Strong client relationship management skills, including expectation management, status communication, and conflict identification/resolution.
  
• Awareness and knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions.
  
• Ability to adapt to changing technology trends and leverage emerging tools and methodologies.
  

• 100% onsite – 5 days per week
  
• Location: 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario
  
• 1 position available
  
• No security clearance required
  
• Contract through March 31, 2027, with potential for one additional extension term