This is a contract position for a Project Manager Leader for our public sector client.
Work location: Toronto
Duration: Six Months
7.25 hours/day
This is a Hybrid role that requires the candidate to be onsite 3 days of the week (This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non-negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.)
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Advantages
Good Compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.
Responsibilities
· Provide leadership to high-performing teams of technical and business professionals in a matrix environment enabling agile approaches
· Develop, monitor, and maintain project management-related artifacts
· Ensure solutions are delivered and implemented according to established methodologies and meet clients' business requirements while remaining in line with budgets, schedules and scope
· Coordinate stakeholders’ engagement and consultation opportunities in establishing requirements and design.
· Prepare and present various briefing materials and issues notes and other materials for decision making
· Identify, manage and report on project risks and issues
· Monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
· Facilitate coordination of go-live/deployment activities.
· Facilitate coordination of transition and change management plans.
· Coordinate, monitor, report on the execution of communications, learning, and development, and corporate and field readiness across the province
· Monitor post-go-live, document lessons learned, and complete project close-out report.
· Communicate project progress clearly and timely to the management team
· Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
· Handle client relationships to manage expectations, provide updates as required, identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas and assist in conflict resolution
Qualifications
Project Management -
- 10+ years experience with Project Management
- Demonstrated experience, in establishing and optimizing project management methodologies
- Demonstrated experience with implementing solutions for large IT projects.
- Extensive experience developing and managing the full range of project management artifacts and plans
- Demonstrated experience identifying issues/risks and providing the proper mitigation
- Demonstrated experience in project resource and cost management
- Demonstrated experience in Agile delivery
- Demonstrated experience with change management.
- Demonstrated experience with managing 3rd party, vendors
Technical Experience
- Demonstrated experience with tools and techniques for planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling IT projects.
- Demonstrated experience planning and leading project activities during development/testing, UAT and Production.
- Demonstrated experience in preparing and presenting complex briefing materials
- Demonstrated experience producing a variety of business documents using MS Office applications
Communication Skills -
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; oral and written communication skills; inter-personal and negotiation skills.
- Strong working experience in developing successful relationships with high level stakeholders including executives and managing 3rd party vendors.
Ontario Public Sector (OPS) Experience -
- Experience with OPS Unified I & IT Project Methodology (UPM) and project gating processes would be an asset.
- Experience with OPS Architecture standards and Enterprise Architecture Review process.
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 public sector client.
Work location: Toronto
Duration: Six Months
7.25 hours/day
This is a Hybrid role that requires the candidate to be onsite 3 days of the week (This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non-negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.)
Advantages
Good Compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.
Responsibilities
· Provide leadership to high-performing teams of technical and business professionals in a matrix environment enabling agile approaches
· Develop, monitor, and maintain project management-related artifacts
· Ensure solutions are delivered and implemented according to established methodologies and meet clients' business requirements while remaining in line with budgets, schedules and scope
· Coordinate stakeholders’ engagement and consultation opportunities in establishing requirements and design.
· Prepare and present various briefing materials and issues notes and other materials for decision making
· Identify, manage and report on project risks and issues
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· Monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
· Facilitate coordination of go-live/deployment activities.
· Facilitate coordination of transition and change management plans.
· Coordinate, monitor, report on the execution of communications, learning, and development, and corporate and field readiness across the province
· Monitor post-go-live, document lessons learned, and complete project close-out report.
· Communicate project progress clearly and timely to the management team
· Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
· Handle client relationships to manage expectations, provide updates as required, identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas and assist in conflict resolution
Qualifications
Project Management -
- 10+ years experience with Project Management
- Demonstrated experience, in establishing and optimizing project management methodologies
- Demonstrated experience with implementing solutions for large IT projects.
- Extensive experience developing and managing the full range of project management artifacts and plans
- Demonstrated experience identifying issues/risks and providing the proper mitigation
- Demonstrated experience in project resource and cost management
- Demonstrated experience in Agile delivery
- Demonstrated experience with change management.
- Demonstrated experience with managing 3rd party, vendors
Technical Experience
- Demonstrated experience with tools and techniques for planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling IT projects.
- Demonstrated experience planning and leading project activities during development/testing, UAT and Production.
- Demonstrated experience in preparing and presenting complex briefing materials
- Demonstrated experience producing a variety of business documents using MS Office applications
Communication Skills -
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; oral and written communication skills; inter-personal and negotiation skills.
- Strong working experience in developing successful relationships with high level stakeholders including executives and managing 3rd party vendors.
Ontario Public Sector (OPS) Experience -
- Experience with OPS Unified I & IT Project Methodology (UPM) and project gating processes would be an asset.
- Experience with OPS Architecture standards and Enterprise Architecture Review process.
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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