This is a contract position for a Project Manager Leader for our client who is in the Broader Public Sector. Work location will be in Downtown Toronto.
This is a Hybrid Role with 3 days in the office a week. This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.
The Contract runs for thirteen months.
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Hours per day will be 7.25
Advantages
Good Compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.
Responsibilities
Manage a consolidated project plan and schedule, day to day work of the project team, task assignments, priorities, team deliverables, issues and risks, stakeholder engagement, project communication and project financials.
Lead the project team to work effectively and efficiently toward project objectives in a complex and diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities to ensure high quality deliverables
Provide regular communication and status updates to the Manager on all aspects of the project. Prepare briefings, presentations and other project documentation for Senior Managers and C Level Executives for the purpose of obtaining approvals.
Manage project issues and risks (e.g. identifies, monitors, escalates, resolves, and reports) through the team. Escalate issues to the Manager. Informs the issues logs and risk registers for the overall project, if applicable.
Lead, facilitate, coordinate project team meetings. Track action items, decision items, risks and issues that come out of meetings and updates Manager.
Work closely with project stakeholders to ensure the objectives of the project are being met.
Collaborates with various internal or external service providers/partners to plan/align project dependencies and/or integrate solution components.
Define, clarify roles and responsibilities and setting deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources.
Champions the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders in order to ensure success.
Schedules and facilitates agile / scrum events including but not limited to backlog management, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
Directs project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered based on sprint / project goals and adheres to quality standards
Qualifications
Experience working with the delivery of complex Cloud technology projects
Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal, WebSphere, DataPower, OpenShift, Cloud Automation Manager, Ansible and Oracle Database.
10+ years experience in technology project management, at least 5+ years must include projects that required large technology procurements.
Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders.
IT Service Management experience with ITIL Foundations certification
Experience with the corporate architecture governance process
Experience with Technical procurement
Experience with Vendor management
Summary
If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!!!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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This is a contract position for a Project Manager Leader for our client who is in the Broader Public Sector. Work location will be in Downtown Toronto.
This is a Hybrid Role with 3 days in the office a week. This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.
The Contract runs for thirteen months.
Hours per day will be 7.25
Advantages
Good Compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.
Responsibilities
Manage a consolidated project plan and schedule, day to day work of the project team, task assignments, priorities, team deliverables, issues and risks, stakeholder engagement, project communication and project financials.
Lead the project team to work effectively and efficiently toward project objectives in a complex and diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities to ensure high quality deliverables
Provide regular communication and status updates to the Manager on all aspects of the project. Prepare briefings, presentations and other project documentation for Senior Managers and C Level Executives for the purpose of obtaining approvals.
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Manage project issues and risks (e.g. identifies, monitors, escalates, resolves, and reports) through the team. Escalate issues to the Manager. Informs the issues logs and risk registers for the overall project, if applicable.
Lead, facilitate, coordinate project team meetings. Track action items, decision items, risks and issues that come out of meetings and updates Manager.
Work closely with project stakeholders to ensure the objectives of the project are being met.
Collaborates with various internal or external service providers/partners to plan/align project dependencies and/or integrate solution components.
Define, clarify roles and responsibilities and setting deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources.
Champions the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders in order to ensure success.
Schedules and facilitates agile / scrum events including but not limited to backlog management, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
Directs project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered based on sprint / project goals and adheres to quality standards
Qualifications
Experience working with the delivery of complex Cloud technology projects
Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal, WebSphere, DataPower, OpenShift, Cloud Automation Manager, Ansible and Oracle Database.
10+ years experience in technology project management, at least 5+ years must include projects that required large technology procurements.
Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders.
IT Service Management experience with ITIL Foundations certification
Experience with the corporate architecture governance process
Experience with Technical procurement
Experience with Vendor management
Summary
If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!!!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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