his is a contract position for a Project Manager Leader for our client who is in the Broader Public Sector. Work location will be in Toronto.
This is a Hybrid Role with 2 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 one year.
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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
· Leading 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
· Leading technical teams by reviewing their work and resolving day to day issues
· 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 such as sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
· Directs project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered based on sprint / project goals, and adhere to quality standards
· Developing, maintaining and effectively executing integrated project plans throughout project lifecycle in accordance with OPS project management methodologies
· Developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs
· Identifying resource requirements and providing project resources/cost estimates
· Defining, clarifying roles and responsibilities and setting deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources
· Resolving resourcing conflicts and negotiating changes to resourcing needs
· Collaborates with various internal or external service providers/partners to plan/align project dependencies and/or integrate solution components
· Proactively planning and prioritizing tasks effectively to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands
· Managing internal and external expectations in line with project critical success factors
· Communicating and controlling the scope, time and cost of the project to team members, clients and other stakeholders
· Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner
· Provides project status updates to support portfolio level reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
· Identifies, analyses, prioritizes and communicates project risks for decision makers
· Collaborates and coaches product managers and product owners on backlog refinement/grooming
· Provides recommendations and mitigation strategies based on a detailed evaluation of risks and issues along with an understanding of the business implications
· Ensures documents are maintained in a shared repository and that knowledge is shared among team members
· Assists in the facilitation of team, vendor, and client meetings
· Communicates effectively to identify needs and evaluate solutions to complex business and technical issues
· Collaborates with Cluster staff, management, project resources and clients to resolve interdependencies between other projects/workstreams
· Providing inputs to the Cluster Staff in the development, maintenance and effective execution of the integrated project plans throughout project lifecycle in accordance with OPS project management methodologies
· Supports the Cluster staff in developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs
· Reporting on progress and provides timely status updates on assigned projects
Qualifications
5+ years demonstrated hands-on project coordination or administrative experience supporting project teams and/or management teams
5+ years coordinating and scheduling project activities, tasks and/or meetings
5+ years experience updating project materials, documents and spreadsheets with a strong attention to detail
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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his is a contract position for a Project Manager Leader for our client who is in the Broader Public Sector. Work location will be in Toronto.
This is a Hybrid Role with 2 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 one year.
Hours per day will be 7.25
Advantages
Good Compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.
Responsibilities
· Leading 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
· Leading technical teams by reviewing their work and resolving day to day issues
· 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 such as sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
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· Directs project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered based on sprint / project goals, and adhere to quality standards
· Developing, maintaining and effectively executing integrated project plans throughout project lifecycle in accordance with OPS project management methodologies
· Developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs
· Identifying resource requirements and providing project resources/cost estimates
· Defining, clarifying roles and responsibilities and setting deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources
· Resolving resourcing conflicts and negotiating changes to resourcing needs
· Collaborates with various internal or external service providers/partners to plan/align project dependencies and/or integrate solution components
· Proactively planning and prioritizing tasks effectively to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands
· Managing internal and external expectations in line with project critical success factors
· Communicating and controlling the scope, time and cost of the project to team members, clients and other stakeholders
· Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner
· Provides project status updates to support portfolio level reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
· Identifies, analyses, prioritizes and communicates project risks for decision makers
· Collaborates and coaches product managers and product owners on backlog refinement/grooming
· Provides recommendations and mitigation strategies based on a detailed evaluation of risks and issues along with an understanding of the business implications
· Ensures documents are maintained in a shared repository and that knowledge is shared among team members
· Assists in the facilitation of team, vendor, and client meetings
· Communicates effectively to identify needs and evaluate solutions to complex business and technical issues
· Collaborates with Cluster staff, management, project resources and clients to resolve interdependencies between other projects/workstreams
· Providing inputs to the Cluster Staff in the development, maintenance and effective execution of the integrated project plans throughout project lifecycle in accordance with OPS project management methodologies
· Supports the Cluster staff in developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs
· Reporting on progress and provides timely status updates on assigned projects
Qualifications
5+ years demonstrated hands-on project coordination or administrative experience supporting project teams and/or management teams
5+ years coordinating and scheduling project activities, tasks and/or meetings
5+ years experience updating project materials, documents and spreadsheets with a strong attention to detail
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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