This is a contract position for a Senior Project ManagerLeader 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
• Develop and manage strategic communication and change management strategies throughout the different phases of the projects (development to implementation) to meet the established goals and objectives.
• Provide business analysis expertise to navigate enterprise-wide strategies, produce data analytics and draft briefing materials and dashboards to tell the story to senior executive leadership, partners and stakeholders.
• Drive organization change and build strong partnerships taking an inclusive approach with cross functional teams and internal stakeholders who have diverging perspectives to ensure that all adhere to best practices and standard approaches.
• Develop project related strategies / frameworks by anticipating potential issues and provides risk mitigations and recommendations.
Qualifications
· Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager
· Advanced knowledge of project management principles, methods and techniques
· Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
· Proven experience facilitation of client meetings/workshops, interpretation of business needs to technical requirements
· Experience creating and documenting project plans and status reports
· Experience managing privacy and security deliverables
· Experience with Agile development concepts and methodologies
· Experience leading technical teams
· Strong technical and business aptitude
· Persistent attention to detail
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
· Self-motivated leader with strong interpersonal skills
· Advanced skills in Office365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and Visio, and Planview
· Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight deadlines
· Previous government experience is an asset
· Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation
· Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to work seamlessly in an agile cross-functional team, with clients, vendor(s) and other stakeholders.
· Excellent facilitation, presentation, time-management and problem-solving skills.
· Able to build strong and trusting relationships, liaising effectively stakeholders
· Able to resolve issues in a timely manner, provide options and recommendations.
· Strong research skills to perform industry research, provide options and make recommendations for solution improvements.
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 Senior Project ManagerLeader 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
• Develop and manage strategic communication and change management strategies throughout the different phases of the projects (development to implementation) to meet the established goals and objectives.
• Provide business analysis expertise to navigate enterprise-wide strategies, produce data analytics and draft briefing materials and dashboards to tell the story to senior executive leadership, partners and stakeholders.
• Drive organization change and build strong partnerships taking an inclusive approach with cross functional teams and internal stakeholders who have diverging perspectives to ensure that all adhere to best practices and standard approaches.
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• Develop project related strategies / frameworks by anticipating potential issues and provides risk mitigations and recommendations.
Qualifications
· Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager
· Advanced knowledge of project management principles, methods and techniques
· Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
· Proven experience facilitation of client meetings/workshops, interpretation of business needs to technical requirements
· Experience creating and documenting project plans and status reports
· Experience managing privacy and security deliverables
· Experience with Agile development concepts and methodologies
· Experience leading technical teams
· Strong technical and business aptitude
· Persistent attention to detail
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
· Self-motivated leader with strong interpersonal skills
· Advanced skills in Office365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and Visio, and Planview
· Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight deadlines
· Previous government experience is an asset
· Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation
· Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to work seamlessly in an agile cross-functional team, with clients, vendor(s) and other stakeholders.
· Excellent facilitation, presentation, time-management and problem-solving skills.
· Able to build strong and trusting relationships, liaising effectively stakeholders
· Able to resolve issues in a timely manner, provide options and recommendations.
· Strong research skills to perform industry research, provide options and make recommendations for solution improvements.
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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